Today, December 17, marks the fifteenth International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. On this day each year, Woodhull Freedom Foundation encourages everyone to pause and remember those sex workers who have been lost to violence in 2018. Around…
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“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” - Robin Williams
Defending Sexual Freedom on Human Rights Day
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. […] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have…
Chaturbate Supports #GivingTuesday with Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Chaturbate joins the Woodhull Freedom Foundation in celebrating #GivingTuesday by pledging $5,000 to support Woodhull’s programming, including the annual Sexual Freedom Summit. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving in the United States, #GivingTuesday is a global day that kicks off…
FOSTA Appeal Moves Forward With Woodhull’s Statement
Reposted from XBIZ, as reported by Rhett Pardon WASHINGTON — The Woodhull Freedom Foundation and other plaintiffs have filed initial papers with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in their bid to block enforcement of FOSTA. Woodhull…
BREAKING: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Appeals FOSTA Ruling
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, attorneys for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and other Plaintiffs appealed the ruling issued by the District Court, for the District of Columbia, dismissing the FOSTA case for lack of standing. Joining in the appeal are The…
Kavanaugh: He failed his job interview
I know, without even a modicum of doubt, that Brett Kavanaugh is not only unfit to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States but also that he should be removed from the bench. HE FAILED HIS JOB INTERVIEW.…
BDSM and Fetishism: Finally off the “Sick List”
By Tess Joseph Consensual sexual practices should not be medicalized. In fact, the medicalization of consensual sexual practices and sexual identities is an affront to human rights and sexual liberation, one that echoes a disturbing history that includes the categorization…
TAKE ACTION: Fight the Most Recent Attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
By Tess Joseph Here is a fact: sexual and reproductive rights are fundamental human rights. Yet historically, the United States government has repeatedly chosen to deny this truth, instead invoking the fiction of “protecting” us as it systematically violates our…
TAKE ACTION: End Inhumane Family Separation Policy
Guest post by Tess Joseph The Woodhull Freedom Foundation remains outraged at the Trump administration’s systemic and horrific separation of migrant families. Parents, like Elsa Johana Ortiz Enriquez, are being deported without their children. The photograph below of a child…
TAKE ACTION: Human Rights Violation of Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
Guest post by Tess Joseph In 2014, the United States Board of Immigration made a landmark decision: fleeing violence perpetrated in the “private sphere”—e.g., domestic and sexual violence—was rightfully recognized as grounds for asylum. Yet, on June 11, 2018, Attorney…
