Judith R. Walkowitz:Priscilla Alexander, you are a major figure in the history of prostitute rights activism. You were a pioneer activist in San Francisco’s prostitute rights group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), you wrote most of COYOTE’s position papers on policing, the AIDS crisis, decriminalization, the history of sex work, etcetera. You also served as liaison between COYOTE and feminist organizations. You coedited the classic anthology Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (1987).1
In 1989, you went to Geneva and worked for four years at the World Health Organization. You persuaded WHO to use terms like sex work and sex workers.
Today we are going to discuss your role as activist, then ally, in the sex worker movement.
Priscilla Alexander: The term ally wasn’t even a term when I started in the early 1970s. I was just an activist.
JW:Okay, we’ll...
