Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
The Collaboration

Featured Project

Playing With Fire—An Ecosexual Emergency

Our Hot New Feature Film Has A World Premiere!
June 20, 2025 11:00 AM — 12:10 PM at the Roxie Theater, San Francisco, and lunch party afterwards at The Lab—free for ticket holders!

Playing with Fire is a heartfelt, mythopoetic documentary born from the ashes of California’s devastating fires. When lightning ignites the redwood forest surrounding their home in Boulder Creek, longtime lovers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are forced to evacuate with their dog Butch—and their lives are forever transformed.

Blending loss and grief with art, humor, and community care, the film unfolds through an ecosexual lens (imagining the Earth as a lover) while weaving stories from a formerly incarcerated firefighter, Indigenous scholars, fire artists, neighbors, a witch-therapist, a fire fetishist, hot burlesque dancer, and Albert the wild, white peacock who miraculously survives the inferno. Playing with Fire explores how climate catastrophe intersects with social justice, to create a powerful portrait of resilience in the face of a world in flames.

2025 * California, USA * 71 minutes * bethandannie@sexecology.org

TICKETS FOR THE FRAMELINE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE

Note: After the movie, ticket holders are invited to follow Beth, Annie, and their collaborators down the block for a World Premiere EcoFlux Lunch Celebration, at The Lab at 2948 16th St. Food, drinks, music, art… and take home an EcoFluxBox with goodies. Co-hosted by E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF and The Lab, the party is free, exclusive for ticket-holders only, and goes until 4:00 pm.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR WORLD PREMIERE PRESS RELEASE

Book

Assuming the Ecosexual Position:
The Earth as Lover

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth.

What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely—or, perhaps, broadly—what we have spent many years bringing to light in our lived art. In 2008, we married the Earth in a performance art wedding which set us on the path together to explore the realm of ecosexuality, taking the Earth as our lover and making our mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, we have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in our performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, post-human, materialist, and steeped in humor.

Now available at
University of Minnesota Press
and Amazon or order from your local book store.

Click here for the book’s press release.

Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story

VISIT OUR NEW ARCHIVE! 
ART, ACTIVISM & EQUITY: A Retrospective on San Francisco’s Cultural Evolution

One of the many things we love to do is to help preserve the histories of people we love who have made great contributions to our communities. The twelve interviews in this archive tell the untold stories of how a group of underdog outsider visionaries transformed the climate for arts funding across the USA during the 1960s through to the 1990s.
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Our Ecosex Manifesto