Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night

Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night

AIDS, activist video, woman filmaker, sesxuality, prostitution, safer sex

Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. This tape was digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2020 and they made a great final project, GROUP SEX (collaborating with Carol and other activists) on resisting contemporary legislation that endangered sex workers. Carol Leigh was a longtime collaborator and friend. We worked together on RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison. I included her in Compulsive Practice for Visual AIDS, Day With(out) Art in 2016. You can learn more about her work and life on her memorial website.

She was also a subject of my Women of Vision project. Here is the interview I conducted with her, as well a digitized version of the VHS tapes we shot at the CA research meeting that she attended.

Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist, and artist, is a brazen, brainy hooker. Since the late 1970s, Harlot (AKA Carol Leigh) has written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues and her experiences in the sex industry. Leigh's work explores a historic cultural and artistic underground from an irreverent point of view, challenging conventions of sexuality, aesthetics, technology and prevailing social mores.

GROUP SEX: Sex Work, Activism, Performance: student final project

For more information about Scarlot Harlot visit: http://www.unrepentantwhore.com

Unrepentant Whore: Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot can be purchased at Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0867195843/penet/103-8623556-5870212

Carol Leigh

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