Melinda Chateauvert

Melinda Chateauvert is an historian and assistant professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses on civil rights, community organizing, and gender and sexuality. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Sex Work: Writing about Women in the Sex Industry (Cleis Press, 1986, 1997), the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Women’s History, $pread Magazine, Labor History, www.swaay.org and www.titsandsass.com. Mindy is a member of the Centaur MC of Washington, DC, and honorary member of the Philadelphians, a past member of the New Orleans Leather Alliance, the Desiree Alliance of sex workers, a board member of HIPS, Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, in Washington, DC, and the Positive Justice Project to decriminalize HIV+ status. www.hivlawandpolicy.org.