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May Jeong

May Jeong is a Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair. Her reporting on the MSF hospital strike in Kunduz, Afghanistan for The Intercept won the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association’s Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Report on South Asia, as well as the Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents in the Young Reporter category. She was also shortlisted for the Livingston Award in 2018, as well as the 2016 Kurt Schork Award, both for her reporting on Afghanistan, and will be featured in The Best American Sports Writing 2020 in November. She is at work on a book about sex work in America. (June 2020)

Ah Toy, Pioneering Prostitute of Gold Rush California

Working out of a shack that was four feet wide and six feet deep, Ah Toy began offering her services to miners, becoming the first recorded Chinese prostitute in the new world.

June 19, 2020