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How to reverse this situation in the future? In her text Gender and territorial planning: an approximation (2007), Paula Santoro states that, when it comes to planning and building urban spaces, the perspective of gender is fundamental because it explores the boundaries between individual and political spheres, public and domestic territories, attempting to recognize cultural diversity as the key to a new way of city planning. In other words, we are not all the same and, therefore, our demands for cities and infrastructure are different. To do so, we must distance ourselves from generic and q...

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 fough...

Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83 She founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and devoted her life to the cause of decriminalizing prostitution. Margo St. James in 1975 at the World Conference on Women in Mexico City, where she sought support for decriminalizing prostitution in the United States.Credit...UPI Published Jan. 20, 2021Updated Jan. 21, 2021 Margo St. James was an artist working as a waitress and living the Beat life in San Francisco in the 1960s when her home became a counterculture hangout. As she told The Windy City Times of Chicago in...

January 18, 2021 5:25 PMLegal - By SAN FRANCISCO—Margo St. James, founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and the St. James Infirmary health clinic,  died at a memory care facility on January 11, due to St. James' continuing problem with dementia. Born in Bellingham, Washington on September 12, 1937, St. James moved to San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day in 1958, securing a room above the El Matador on Broadway. She would later join the beatnik scene, hanging out in jazz clubs in North Beach. St. James once said, “This was all before desegregation so finding hip places like ...

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.