While known as a sex worker activist, Brooks' research and advocacy expands to broader topics of gender and institutions, women of color and mental illness, queer race identities, women in the media, race and class. In October 2005 Brooks co-organized a conference on hip hop music's global impact at Lehman College, where she was an adjunct professor in the department of sociology. Brooks' second book, Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities (Lexington Books, 2020), focuses on violence and resistance within Black and Latinx LGBT communities. References 1972 births Living people Activists for African-American civil rights American feminist writers American women sociologists American sociologists American female erotic dancers American erotic dancers American LGBT rights activists American women's rights activists Lesbian feminists American lesbian writers San Francisco State University alumni The New School alumni City University of New York faculty California State University, Fullerton faculty Activists from California LGBT African Americans African-American feminists African-American women writers African-American women academics American women academics African-American academics 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women