One of the people I was looking forward to meeting the most at Desiree was
Carol Leigh, aka "The Scarlot Harlot." Carol has been one the most well-known faces of the sex worker rights movement and has tirelessly campaigned on behalf of prostitutes rights for the past thirty years. I'd read Carol's book
The Unrepentant Whore and interviewed her several years back for this website when it was in a
webzine format. Before and during the conference I worked closely with Carol and she really does just about everything, from setting up all the A/V stuff on site to recruiting
marginalized workers to speak and attend the panel discussions. She really is an all-purpose whore.
The day she returned home to San Francisco from the busy, busy
activities in Chicago, she was immediately tapped to make an
appearance on
Bill O' Reilly regarding the
decriminalization bill now on the ballot in San Francisco. She's not just a busy whore, but a brave one. I think it's safe to say my interview with Carol is much better than his.
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