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Ending more than a year of silence on who s in charge, St. James Infirmary announced July 13 that it is going forward without an executive director as the nonprofit that serves sex workers shifts to a new, horizontal leadership structure, according to a news release. The organization runs like spokes on a wheel. All of our programs have an experienced director and teams of amazing staff and volunteers, operations director Anita O Shea stated. What makes us even more unique is that most of us have had real lived experiences similar to the people that we serve: sex work, homelessness, drug use, and losing our loved ones as a result of a broken system.
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Friends are also planning an online celebration of St. James life this spring.
St. James died January 11 in Washington state, where she had been living in a memory care facility before being moved to hospice. She was 83.
St. James, who founded the prostitutes rights organization COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), and later the St. James Infirmary, was honored by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at its January 26 board meeting. It was important to declare Margo St. James Day in memory of a truly extraordinary woman who dared to champion the cause of sex worker rights, who fought fiercely and effectively for women s liberation, and who in doing so changed not just our city but our world. Margo was one of the great San Franciscans of the last half century, stated gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman.
Margo St. James, a noted sex-positive feminist and pioneer of the sex workers rights movement, died January 11 at age 83. Ms. St. James had been living in a memory care facility in Washington state and was moved to hospice care after a fall, according to her longtime friend Carol Stuart.
Ms. St. James founded the sex worker activist group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), organized the infamous Hooker s Balls in the 1970s, was nearly elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1996, and is the namesake of St. James Infirmary, the nation s first health clinic for sex workers.