“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” - Robin Williams
“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 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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Thank you for being patient with us as we continue to consider our options around the onerous, vague, and punitive restrictions in SESTA, a bill recently passed with bipartisan support. The bill was framed as an anti-trafficking measure when, in…
