CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition has appointed adult performer, writer and activist Siouxsie Q to the newly created position Director of Policy and Industry Relations. She has worked with the organization in an ad-hoc capacity since February.

“With her hard work helping to secure our Cal/OSHA victory in February, Siouxsie quickly proved to be an invaluable and truly dedicated member of the team,” said Executive Director Eric Paul Leue. “She has a deep and nuanced knowledge of the issues the industry faces, and a passion for political work and grassroots organizing that will be essential to our industry’s future success.”

In her new position, Siouxsie Q will help craft policy positions and actions on a variety of industry issues from adult business zoning to counterfeit products, piracy, lubricant regulation, sex worker rights and condom mandates. She will head the Free Speech Coalition’s recently announced Industry Sector Committees, working as a liaison between the coalition and the various sectors.

Siouxsie Q began her adult industry career dancing at the unionized Lusty Lady in San Francisco. She began performing in adult films in 2012, garnering two AVN Award nominations and a Feminist Porn Award. She is an advocate for the rights of all workers, regardless of their industry.

An author, weekly columnist for SF Weekly and creator of podcast network The Whorecast, Siouxsie Q has lectured extensively about sex and sex work and has been featured in mainstream media including CNN, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Wired, Buzzfeed and America with Jorge Ramos.

“I am excited to join the Free Speech Coalition and to be of direct service to my industry, which I believe is home to some of America’s best and brightest workers, innovators and thought leaders,” she said. “I am incredibly passionate about advocating for the adult industry as a whole, especially at such a critical time for so many of our issues, like piracy, counterfeit products, censorship, discrimination and worker harassment.”