Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83
2021-01-21
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She founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and devoted her life to the cause of decriminalizing prostitution.
Ms. St. James, who called herself a sex-positive feminist, founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973 to press for health care, legal rights and financial security for sex workers. The group successfully fought to overturn San Franc .....
Kamala Harris Has Been Contradictory About Various Issues, But Is She Capable Of Change?
2020-11-10
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She has also been accused of being conservative about sex work and mocking BLM activists for the slogan “build schools, not prisons.”
In 2019, Harris was against “Proposition K” which was brought about by sex workers to end prostitution arrests in San Francisco. She also tried to shut down a page named Backpage, an online marketplace for sex workers, to end sex work. .....
The Secret Sex Workers’ Database That Brought Down a Plastic Surgeon Accused of Rape
2020-03-12
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After a high-end escort in Los Angeles believed she was drugged, raped, and filmed without consent by an Ohio plastic surgeon in town for a conference, she logged onto a secret database that women use to warn each other about predatory men.
It would start a chain of events that ended with the arrest of Gupta last week, accused of illegally using clinical drugs—including the horse tranq .....