Best known for coining the phrase "sex work," Carol Leigh was the co-founder with Margo St. James of the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network.Founding San Francisco Bay Times editor Priscilla Alexander, who also advocated for sex workers for decades, posted upon learning of Leigh's passing: "In my work at the World Health Organization, I helped to promote that term to emphasize that sex work is a form of labor, appropriate to labor not criminal law."
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