“I’ve had clients in the strip club and also full service where I have played a semi-therapeutic role.”

Nevaeh is a sex worker by night and a birth doula by day, in a world where bodies are both judged and celebrated.

With My Body Goes to Work, Fernanda Molina offers an intimate and immersive documentary that looks at the body and the mind, and how a woman has the right to choose.

Gentleness and Happiness

My Body Goes to Work parallels two professions that seem totally opposite, but which, on a closer look, appear to have much in common. We observe the rituals, rhythms, and relationships of Nevaeh, who moves between these two worlds perceived in radically different ways: one honorable (doula), the other shameful (exotic dancer).

With gentleness and lightness, Fernanda Molina explores what it means to live authentically in a world that often punishes and marginalizes those who do not conform. Through sex work, Nevaeh reclaims what was stolen from her: her sexuality, her pleasure, and her autonomy, and redefines them on her own terms, without shame, like a return to her roots.

Simple

Through her romantic relationship with another woman, her deep connection to her sensuality, and her commitment to care, Nevaeh invites us to rethink our preconceived ideas about sex, work, and healing.

She succeeds in showing how sex work is as healthy as birth care. The tone of the film also allows the viewer to simply see these two professions as simple and ordinary. This is probably its greatest strength.

It would have been interesting, however, to see Nevaeh a little more at work, so that we could better see her ease and happiness in practicing them. Despite this weakness, My Body Goes to Work is a film full of authenticity, which takes a look at a lifestyle that is slowly becoming less and less taboo.

My Body Goes to Work is being presented at Hot Docs on April 25, 2026.

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