(San Francisco, Calif.) - Sex workers' rights pioneer Carol Leigh, who coined the term "sex worker" in the 1970s, died yesterday. She was 71. Leigh's early advocacy is recognized as having been crucial in shifting discourse away from "prostitution" a term grounded in punitive legal and law enforcement frameworks and toward the current common use of the neutral, destigmatizing "sex work" and "sex worker."
Posted 11/17/22
