Kate Lister

Kate Lister is intellectually slutty. She spends most of her time peeping up the skirts of history and reporting what she finds to over 270,000 followers on Twitter as @WhoresofYore. Kate has been fascinated by sex ever since she found a stash of porn mags in a hedge, on the way to school and Stewart Riley gave her two sherbet dib-dabs and a glitter pen to be allowed to look at them. Had she not been able to channel this interest into an academic discipline, she may very well have wound up a porn baron. Thankfully, she is now a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, where she researches the history of sexuality and curates the online research project, thewhoresofyore.com Kate is also a regular columnist for iNews, Vice and the Wellcome Trust where she writes about the history of sex. Kate won a Sexual Freedom Award for Publicist of the Year, 2017 and is blocked by Piers Morgan on Twitter.

Kate Lister