{"id":16628,"date":"2024-06-07T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/?p=16628"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:37:06","slug":"red-umbrella-fund-thanks-the-estate-of-carol-leigh-for-generous-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/red-umbrella-fund-thanks-the-estate-of-carol-leigh-for-generous-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Umbrella Fund Thanks the Estate of Carol Leigh for Generous Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year Red Umbrella Fund published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/%d0%b4%d0%b0%d0%bd%d1%8c-%d0%ba%d1%8d%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bb-%d0%bb%d0%b8\/\">Tribute to Carol Leigh<\/a> to honour her memory and legacy after her passing. Earlier this year Red Umbrella Fund was notified by Kate Marquez, Executor &amp; Trustee of the Carol Leigh Trust, that Red Umbrella Fund was selected as a beneficiary of her estate. The unrestricted funds will support the grantmaking decisions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/%d0%be-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%81-2\/\">Programme Advisory Committee<\/a> and continue to build on the sex worker-led movement through the self-determination that defined Carol Leigh&#8217;s activism.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Marquez shared the following regarding the gift:<\/p>\n<p>Sex worker individuals and advocacy groups recently received gifts from the estate of the late Carol Leigh, renowned sex worker\/artist\/activist and coiner of the phrase <em>sex work. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When she died in 2022, Carol Leigh\u2019s obituaries praised her decades of heart-felt advocacy on behalf of sex workers the highlighted the brave, funny, and pioneering voice she developed with her performance persona, Scarlot Harlot (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/18\/us\/carol-leigh-dead.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/18\/us\/carol-leigh-dead.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Leigh\u2019s friends and colleagues were stunned and delighted when they learned that Leigh, who\u2019d struggled financially, had received an inheritance shortly before she died.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh explained in a letter to her beneficiaries, \u201cMy mother, Augusta, a life-long thrifty saver and savvy investor, wanted me to use her savings to support my life and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leigh and her mother, a longtime supporter of her daughter\u2019s activism, had attended sex worker conferences around the world.\u00a0 As a result, the beneficiaries of Leigh\u2019s trust include sex worker rights organizations and individuals in Asia, Europe and Africa, as well as in the U.S..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarol\u2019s gifts to sex worker organizations are going to change the world,\u201d said Joseph Kramer, Leigh\u2019s longtime co-producer of sex educational videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a young, developing political movement, gifts like Carol\u2019s have a monumental impact,\u201d said Carol\u2019s Trustee Kate Marquez. \u201cRemaining funds are being gifted to the sex worker rights groups New Moon Network, Third Wave Sex Worker Giving Circle, Red Umbrella Fund and a project in Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year Red Umbrella Fund published a Tribute to Carol Leigh to honour her memory and legacy after her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1181],"tags":[1260,1188],"secondary_category":[],"class_list":["post-16628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1181","tag-1260","tag-1188"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16631,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions\/16631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"secondary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redumbrellafund.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/secondary_category?post=16628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}