Eurydice Aroney is a senior lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney. She has been an activist and award-winning audio chronicler of the sex workers rights movement since the 1980's when she was involved in a successful campaign that led to the decriminalisation of prostitution in NSW. Her research focuses on the history of the sex workers rights movement in Australia and most recently in France. You can find links to her audio and activism at @eekiemout.  

Julia Laite is a Reader in Modern History at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London.  She researches and teaches on the history of women, crime, sexuality and migration in the nineteenth and twentieth century British world. She is the Birkbeck Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre and an editor at History Workshop Journal, and maintains a strong interest in public history and historiography. Julia is the principle investigator on the AHRC-funded Trafficking Past project and is the author of Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens:  Commercial Sex in London (2012) and Wolfenden’s Women: A Critical Sourcebook (2020). Her latest book, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: One Trial, Six Lives and the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, will be published by Profile Books in April, 2021.

Carol Leigh has been working as a sex worker/prostitute activist and artist in the Bay Area for more than thirty years. Since the late seventies, she has written and performed political satire as “Scarlot Harlot,” and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues including work based on her experience in San Francisco massage parlors. Leigh is one of the "mothers" of the sex workers' rights movement in the US and internationally – in fact, she coined the term “sex work” in the late seventies. Last Gasp released Leigh's book, Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot in Spring 2004. Leigh received a prestigious grant from the Creative Work Fund for the Sex Worker Media Library in collaboration with the Center for Sex and Culture. In 1999 she founded the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, collaborating for many years with Erica Elena, Mariko Passion and Laure McElroy. Leigh was lead writer of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Task Force on Prostitution Report, representing the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Carol Leigh had been a longtime spokesperson for COYOTE, the sex worker rights organization, founded by Margo St. James. She co-founded BAY SWAN, Bay Area Sex Workers Advocacy Network, organizing sex worker rights advocates employed as outreach workers at various agencies and was one of the original sex worker rights websites on the web.

Rachel Schreiber, PhD is Executive Dean of The New School’s Parsons School of Design, where she is also Associate Professor. An American gender historian as well as designer and artist, she has taught and published on the topics of the history of prostitution and the sex workers’ rights movement. Her article “Before Their Makers and Their Judges: Prostitutes and White Slaves in the Political Cartoons of the Masses (New York, 1911-1917) was published in Feminist Studies in 2009. From 2008 to 2012 she was artist-in-residence at the St. James Infirmary, a free peer-run health care clinic for sex workers in San Francisco, California. In 2011, she produced a public media campaign for St. James titled “Someone You Know is a Sex Worker.” 

Judith R. Walkowitz is Professor Emerita of Modern British history and women’s history at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and writing have concentrated on nineteenth-century political culture and the cultural and social contests over sexuality. She is the author of Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State (1980) City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London(1992), and Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (2012). She is currently working on a project on feminism and the politics of prostitution in late -twentieth century Britain.