Maxine Doogan is an American sex worker, social justice and politics expert and advocate, documentarian, artist, author and media personality. For 33 years, Maxine has regularly traveled across the U.S and abroad, providing erotic services, and working to protect and enhance the rights and conditions of sex workers.
Maxine help found the Erotic Services Provider Union (ESPU), a labor rights approach sex worker rights group, the ESPLER Project which led a historic federal constitutional challenge to the anti-prostitution law in California, and Community United For Safety and Protection (CUSP) an Alaska based group of current and former sex workers, sex trafficking victims and allies, working towards the safety and protection for all in Alaska’s sex trade.
Memberships: Maxine is a member of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and San Francisco Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Conferences
- International Conference on Prostitution 1997
https://www.iswface.org/beginning.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704917?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.bayswan.org/Prostitution_Conference.html
- The 3rd San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival, 2003
http://www.bayswan.org/swfest/schedule2003_2.html
- Sex Work Matters Conference New York City, 2006
http://socialistreview.org.uk/349/sex-work-matters
https://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/research-for-sex-work-9-english.pdf
- Desiree Alliance, 2006 & 2013
http://desireealliance.org/home/
- San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival Sex Worker Rights, Arts and Cultural Conference San Francisco, 2007
http://www.bayswan.org/swfest/swfesthistory.html
Maxine’s story is partially featured in:
Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law by Alison Bass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Screwed:_Sex_Work_and_the_Law
Sex Worker Unionization: Global Developments, Challenges and Possibilities
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137320131
By G. Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Gall
Sex Worker Union Organising: An International Study
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403949257
By Gregor Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Gall
Maxine is mentioned in:
Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot by Carol Leigh
240 pages/paperback/ ISBN 0-86719-584-3 http://www.bayswan.org/swfest/swfesthistory.html
Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, And The Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier by Lael Morgan.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10592691-wanton-west
Maxine lives and works in both California and Alaska.