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Three women sit in front of a banner that includes a cartoon coyote and text that reads "my ass is mine."
Ti-Grace Atkinson, Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy, and Margo St James pose beneath a 'Coyote' banner (1976). (Photo: Getty Images/Leif Skoogfors/Corbis)

COYOTE is formed to work towards the decriminalization of sex work.

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Ti-Grace Atkinson, Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy, and Margo St James pose beneath a 'Coyote' banner (1976). (Photo: Getty Images/Leif Skoogfors/Corbis)

The organization's name is an acronym for Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics. It is founded on Mother's Day by Margo St. James, a former sex worker who was arrested in the 1960s, then went to law school, and later, successfully overturned her own conviction.