Farewell to Carol Leigh, who coined the term 'sex worker'

Carol Leigh, the San Francisco activist who coined the term 'sex worker' in the late 1970s, died of cancer at age 71. Leigh, a former prostitute, used the term in a 1978 speech at a feminist anti-pornography conference, and it later became common in health and academic circles. Her executor, Kate Ma

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