J. LEIGH OSHIRO-BRANTLY
J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly
Advocacy Consultant
At the intersection of policy, research, and creativity is where you will find multi-racial genderqueer J. Leigh Brantly. They serve as the Alternative Sexuality Advisor for the Sharmus Outlaw Advocacy and Rights (SOAR) Institute, as the Gender Non-Conforming Non-Binary Advisor for Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Soceity (GLITS) and as the Research and Project Manager for Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW)--all organizations dedicated to the safety and rights of sex workers and survivors of human trafficking.
As a researcher, they have coded data for an international qualitative study on casual sex, studied the transphobia and queerphobia experienced by LGBTQ sex workers, and co-produced an ethnnographic short film for an international research project called SEXHUM in collaboration with transgender LatinX sex workers from the Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo.
J. Leigh has been an advisor for the Museum of the City of New York’s Transgender Activism Exhibit and received the 2019 Marsha P. Johnson Community Leader Award from NYTAG, where they currently serve as an advocacy consultant and as the president of the New York