Carol Leigh

Carol Leigh, aka The Scarlot Harlot, is an artist, author, film maker, and prostitutes' rights activist. [1][2] She coined the term "Sex worker"[3] in a conference in 1978. [4] She currently chairs the Sex Worker Film and Arts festival and is the director of BAYSWAN, the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network.[5] She lives in San Francisco.

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  1. ^ Stephan Lemons (21 July 2000). "Sex with latex". Salon (magazine). http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/07/21/safe. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
  2. ^ Alexandra Juhasz (2001). Women of vision: histories in feminist film and video. U of Minnesota Press. p. 4, 13 and 342. ISBN 9780816633722. http://books.google.com/books?id=QOMn0tRfF-AC&pg=PA4&dq=%22carol+leigh%22+filmmaker&hl=en&ei=8o6ATJClNISinQfilvGgAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22carol%20leigh%22%20filmmaker&f=false. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
  3. ^ "Inaugural Hong Kong sex workers' film festival offers nuanced, diverse portrait of trade". Malaysia Star. AP. August 14, 2006. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/14/apworld/20060814143621&sec=apworld. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
  4. ^ *Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Writings of Scarlot Harlot by Carol Leigh, 2004. ISBN 0-86719-584-3, p. 69
  5. ^ Nate Tabak (January 28, 2002). "Illicit Career of an Adult Escort Offers the Allure of Big Money with the Risk of Violence and Disease". Daily Cal. http://www.dailycal.org/article/7478/illicit_career_of_an_adult_escort_offers_the_allur. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 

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