Category: Sexwork
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Working (parts 1 & 2)
When I asked her what she’d tell the world about prostitution, she told me, “they should make this legal, because it’s something that obviously a lot of people need. If it was legal, it would be a lot safer, a lot cleaner, and nobody would be getting sick behind it.”
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Lusty Ladies Get Feisty
In the decade I was on the masthead of San Francisco area adult weekly Spectator, I often covered sexworker activism. I took great pride in my 1997 article about how the women of the Lusty Lady Theater fought back and unionized against an abusive workplace. For posterity I offer an edited, condensed version of that […]
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Remembering Margo St. James, Part 2
On January 12th, 2021, legendary sexworker activist Margo St. James passed away in Bellingham, WA after a stroke. She was notorious in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she founded the prostitutes’ rights organization, C.O.Y.O.T.E. in 1973. While she was famous for attention-getting pranks—one time she dressed as a nun and made out with a […]
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In Memoriam: Margo St. James
Remembering the “Coyote Trickster” Margo St. James Last night I got word that one of my childhood heroines, sexworker activist Margo St. James, was no longer with us. I wrote of Ms. St. James more than once when I contributed regularly to Spectator, an adult weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1991, […]