Carol Leigh, aka The Scarlot Harlot has been working as a prostitute, activist and an artist in the Bay Area for more than twenty years. She coined the term "Sex worker" in a conference in 1978. She currently chairs the Sex Worker Film and Arts festival and is the director of BAYSWAN, the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network. She lives in San Francisco.

Leigh is one of the "mothers" of the sex workers' rights movement in the US and internationally. Last Gasp released Leigh's book, Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot in Spring 2004, available at your local bookstore or at UnrepentantWhore.com. In 2006 Leigh received a prestigious grant from the Creative Work Fund for a media library project in collaboration with the Center for Sex and Culture, "Art, Advocacy and Identity,' utilizing a Pathfinder-based delivery system to compile 20 years of international sex worker history in various digital formats.


The Adventures of Scarlot Harlot, Leigh's one-woman play, was featured at The National Festival of Women's Theater in Santa Cruz in 1983. For two decades Leigh has performed at Bay Area clubs, theaters, rallies and other venues including the Miss Haight Ashbury Beauty Pageant at the Great American Music Hall, the COYOTE Hooker's Ball, the former Holy City Zoo and many more. Leigh recently returned from a performance art tour of the United States as part of the Sex Workers Art Show tour. (http://www.sexworkersartshow.com) She was part of the Sex Worker Art Show Tour (2002-2006), which visits 26 cities in the US. For the past several years Leigh has traveled internationally, performing at arts festivals including Venice's Biennale 2001, and Taiwan's cultural festival "100 Years of Legal Prostitution."

Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot received numerous awards for her video documentaries on women's issues and gay/lesbian issues, including three awards from Visions of US at the American Film Institute. Leigh is the director and founder of the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival. In 1999 Leigh co-directed Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn, which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She directed many erotic videos or 'feminist porn' for House O' Chicks and for Erospirit Reasearch. Leigh's video, BLIND EYE TO JUSTICE: HIV+ Women in California Prisons narrated by Angela Davis won Best Documentary winner at the Black International Cinema in Berlin. Leigh currently curates and directs the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival (http://www.sexworkerfest.com). Leigh taught digital video production at the International Center for Digital Art, Center for Electronic Arts and other art schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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