Politics
Maxine helped organize education to help pass California Senate Bill 233 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233, a historic statewide bill that created immunity from prostitution arrest when reporting serious crimes and when carrying condoms.
Maxine spearheaded the campaign that repealed California Victim Compensation Fund’s discriminatory regulation that banned sex workers who have been sexually assaulted from accessing the fund. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/12/21881431- california-prostitutes-win-right-to-victim-compensation.
Maxine’s group Community United for Safety and Protection (CUSP) got several significant laws passed in 2017. Sex workers and sex trafficking victims in Alaska can now report when we’re victims or witnesses of violent crime without the threat of being charged with prostitution and cannot be charged with sex trafficking ourselves. Alaska House Bill 112 and companion bill Senate Bill 73 were proposed laws that would have made it felony for police to have sex with victims while investigating prostitution or sex trafficking and are waiting for new sponsorship.
The Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education and Research Project was founded in 2010. It is one of America’s few 501 (C) 3 for erotic service providers and our larger community. The ESPLER Project was the state registered opposition to California state ‘anti trafficking’ ballot measure California Proposition 35 in 2012.
Maxine qualified Proposition K, a San Francisco in 2008 ballot initiative that would have stop the enforcement of the prostitution laws and bring equal protection to sex workers. www.espu-ca.org/initiative.html
Media
Maxine has created two documentaries examining the current conditions facing sex workers and the problems in the Nevada brothel industry.
Who’s Your Boss is a 2009 short personal film that asks a rhetorical question which people in your life act like bosses. Previewed at the Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival 2011 2:34 mins.
Maxine’s movie, Legalization Sucks features two San Francisco exotic dancers and two Nevada brothel workers who explain who these legalized sex industry businesses have not created ideal work conditions. It was featured at San Francisco Laborfest 2005 and the San Francisco Sex Workers Film and Arts Festival 2007.
Maxine has been a KPFA community programmer bringing erotic service provider voices to a wider audience.
Maxine has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates in Alaska, California, and in Canada on broadcast television and radio stations.
Maxine is also regularly a featured guest on the Doctor Drew Midday radio show, on KABC – AM.
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