FROM SEX AS SIN TO SEX AS WORK
The Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem
Welcome to Ms. Priscilla's Ivory Tower of Ill Repute
Priscilla Alexander is a member of the North American Task Force on Prostitution, a loose network of sex workers' rights organizations in the United States and Canada. From 1976 to 1989 her home was San Francisco's COYOTE, the first sex workers' rights organization, founded by Margo St. James in 1973. Along the way she coedited, with Frederique Delacoste, Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (Cleis, 1987). In 1989, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to work for the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS. She now lives in New York City where she works with an HIV/AIDS-prevention project that serves women who work in some of the poorest sections of the city. She is also working on a master's degree in public health at Columbia University.
The official biography aside, Priscilla has been one of the consistently driving forces of the sex workers' rights movement. You cannot read a single book on the subject without finding her extensively quoted and cited. Shameless plugging, I know, but Priscilla is an inspiration to us all, and we here at the Whore Activist Network are delighted to host her.