She was widely recognized for establishing the term 'sex work' and became a fierce advocate of the trade as she sought to raise awareness and change the public's perception of it.
FILE - Carol Leigh joins thousands of workers in the May Day march from Victoria Park to Central Government Offices in Central on May 1, 2004.Carol Leigh, a famed San Francisco activist and artist who championed the rights of sex workers and was widely recognized for establishing the term “sex work,” died at her Park Merced apartment Wednesday.
Leigh, who was also known by her onstage persona, the “Scarlot Harlot,” was born in New York City on Jan. 11, 1951 and grew up in Queens. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Empire State College and studied at Boston University's masters program in creative writing before eventually moving to San Francisco in 1977, where she started pursuing sex work as a flexible and lucrative form of income that buoyed her creative pursuits in film and writing.
“I found the room for the conference workshop on prostitution,” Leigh wrote. “As I entered I saw a newsprint pad with the title of the workshop. It included the phrase ‘Sex Use Industry.’ The words stuck out and embarrassed me. How could I sit amid other women as a political equal when I was being objectified like that, described only as something used, obscuring my role as an actor and agent in this transaction?”“Because that described what women did,” she wrote.
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