In the 1990s Siobhan BrooksKing led a movement that resulted in the firstever sex workers union at a strip club in San Francisco She has gone on to interview sex workers across the country and has published several articles as a result The story of the unionizing efforts at the Lusty Lady are chronicled in Live Nude Girls Unite a documentary by Julia Query Siobhan is featured in the film Brooks research and advocacy expands to broader topics of gender and institutions women of color and mental illness queer race identities women in the media race and class She is the author of the book Unequal Desires Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry SUNY Press 2010 Siobhan Brooks is currently an associate professor of AfricanAmerican studies at the California State University Fullerton She holds a BA in womens studies from the San Francisco State University and a PhD in sociology from the New School University in New York City
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