- Sessions that will be streamed can be watched live on the Woodhull Facebook page at facebook.com/WoodhullFreedom.
- Once done, they can be found in the page’s video library.
- They will be posted on the Woodhull YouTube page the week after the Summit.
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Stop by the registration desk to pick up your badge and Summit attendee goody bag! The registration table will always be staffed by a Summit volunteer so feel free to stop by with any questions!
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This room has been designated as a “Sober Space” for the entire event. No alcohol, vape, smokables or other drugs are allowed in here.
This room will host several open meetings and at least one informal meet-up, intended for folks in (any flavor of) recovery and our supporters. At all other times, it is open to anyone who wants a sober and drug-free space for unwinding or quiet conversations.
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The Quiet Space is a designated room located in a quieter spot at our Summit hotel. This space is designed for anyone who might need a break from the action. The room will remain quiet and free from any loud conversation or noise. This will be open during all daytime hours at the Summit, and everyone is welcome. This is not a place to socialize.
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Woodhull’s Human Rights Commission – The Censorship of Sexual Freedom
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Will be Streamed
Censorship is everywhere – and almost all of it is aimed squarely at sexual expression. Limiting our access to and enjoyment of sexual freedom is a fundamental human rights violation that affects everyone. That’s why Woodhull’s Human Rights Commission at #SFS22 will focus on the impact of censorship on individuals, highlighting opportunities for cross-movement strategies to push back against the growing tide of laws and policies. Testimony will come from healthcare providers, museum curators, librarians, and from a young person directly impacted by Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Speakers
- Will Creeley (he/him)
- Rebecca Fasman (she/her)
- Chris Finan (he/him)
- Mariah Grant (she/her)
- Martha Hickson (she/her)
- Lotus Lain (she/her)
- Kyle Lukoff (he/him)
- Zander Moricz (he/him)
- Amanda Pasciucco (she/her)
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An informal meet-up, intended for folks in (any flavor of) recovery and our supporters.
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Sixty years after the pill revolutionized women’s emancipation, The Business of Birth Control examines the complex relationship between hormonal birth control and women’s health and liberation.
The documentary traces the feminist movement to investigate and expose the pill’s risks alongside the racist legacy of hormonal contraception and its ongoing weaponization against communities of color.
Weaving together the stories of bereaved parents, body literacy activists and femtech innovators, the film reveals a new generation seeking holistic and ecological alternatives to the pill.
All Day
Afternoon Plenary
Evening
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Stop by the registration desk to pick up your badge and Summit attendee goody bag! The registration table will always be staffed by a Summit volunteer so feel free to stop by with any questions!
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This room has been designated as a “Sober Space” for the entire event. No alcohol, vape, smokables or other drugs are allowed in here.
This room will host several open meetings and at least one informal meet-up, intended for folks in (any flavor of) recovery and our supporters. At all other times, it is open to anyone who wants a sober and drug-free space for unwinding or quiet conversations.
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The Quiet Space is a designated room located in a quieter spot at our Summit hotel. This space is designed for anyone who might need a break from the action. The room will remain quiet and free from any loud conversation or noise. This will be open during all daytime hours at the Summit, and everyone is welcome. This is not a place to socialize.
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Come learn about some amazing sexual freedom organizations and businesses. Vendors will be sharing information and selling products. Come support those who help us make the Summit possible.
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Coffee and a light breakfast will be served before we begin our programming for the day.
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Join us as we officially kick off the 2022 Sexual Freedom Summit. Our opening ceremony will feature an official welcome from CEO & President of Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Ricci Levy and be emceed by the amazing Aly Oseth. Bring your energy, your enthusiasm and your passion for sexual freedom!
Speakers
- Ricci Joy Levy (she/her)
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Sex work policy is an intersectional human rights issue – labor, immigration, racial justice, gender justice, disability justice, and LGBTQIA+ issues all arise under the criminalization of adult consensual sex work. We will discuss sex work policymaking within a human rights framework. We’ll identify different policy approaches to sex work: decriminalization, legalization, and the “end demand” model. We’ll explore various strategic approaches to policy reform including incremental harm reductive legislative measures. We will explore different approaches to full decriminalization, including simple repeals of prostitution laws versus repeals paired with administrative measures to protect and provide for sex workers.
Speakers
- Rebecca Cleary (she/her)
- Blair Hopkins (she/her)
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CANCELLED – When “Chosen Family” Falls Short: Strategies for Queer Community Interdependence
- Aspen ◆ 10:15 am - 11:45 am
The long legacy of “chosen family” is rightfully touted as a pillar of strength within queer and polyamorous communities. Yet, at the same time, LGBTQIA+ older adults are more likely to face social isolation, among other disparities. What happens when chosen families fall apart? Who gets left behind? Chosen family, while powerful, can only take us so far when nuclear family structures continue to be prioritized by the law, society, and culture. Learn strategies to promote intergenerational kinship, community care and accountability, and policy priorities that have the power to reduce our culture’s over-reliance on the nuclear family.
Speakers
- Molly Pearson (any pronouns)
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“If you really loved your partner, you wouldn’t want to sleep with other people.” “Don’t leave your wife alone with her male friends.” “You’ve got to look good for your husband, or his eyes will wander.” Sound familiar? These are messages many of us learn from toxic monogamy culture — a set of beliefs that confine us to a narrow and unhealthy monogamous relationship ideal. This talk will unpack these beliefs and teach participants a non-monogamy-inspired alternative that we’re calling expansive connection, which allows for autonomy, freedom, and flexibility no matter what your specific relationship structure looks like.
Speakers
- Steve Dean (he/him)
- Suzannah Weiss (she/they)
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Trans Sex Workers experience a higher rate of Human Rights Violations than nearly any other population. This workshop will help you to greater understand the disconnect and how to stand up for Trans Sex Workers.
Speakers
- Ashunte Coleman (she/her)
- Ceyenne Doroshow (she/her)
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The Role of Inclusive Sexual Education in Promoting Human Rights and Trafficking Prevention
- Juniper ◆ 10:15 am - 11:45 am
This presentation will explain the findings of a paper published in the 2021 edition of the Charleston Law Review. The authors will discuss the origins of human trafficking in commercial sex, as well as sexual abuse more broadly, and the role of inclusive sexual and reproductive health education in preventing sexual exploitation, with a special focus on the trafficking of minors. The paper uses the experiences of LGTBQ youth in the U.S. school system and survivors of human trafficking who were trafficked from Mexico into the United States as case studies upon which to build its analysis. Sex negativity and gendered, homophobic, and transphobic ideas around appropriate sexual practices, particularly in the context of school and community-based learning, are examined as contributing factors to risk on a continuum of sexual abuse, including trafficking, throughout an individual’s life course.
Speakers
- J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly (they/them)
- Melissa Sontag Broudo (she/her)
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Challenging Social Media Policies That Keep Us Silenced
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 10:15 am - 11:45 am Will be Streamed
We invite sexual health and freedom advocates to join us in this conversation and action planning session. Heart to Hand’s Sexual Health in Everything (SHE) Campaign is dedicated to creating space for Black women ages 18-30 to talk about sex and sexual health in open and honest ways. In early 2022 while looking to boost their social media post for the annual SHE Empowerment Expo, Instagram advertisements promoting the event were rejected per Facebook policy against advertisements focusing on sexual pleasure. This session will explore how social media “decency” standards are used to police sexual health messaging and limit access for structurally marginalized people.
Sponsored by:
Speakers
- Veronica Urquilla, MSW (she/her)
- PJ Urquilla (he/him)
- Anne Wiseman, LPC, LCPC (she/her)
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Take a break for lunch on your own! You have a few options available to you for purchasing food. We have invited some really awesome food trucks to be onsite. There are also quick, pre-packaged food options available inside of the hotel restaurant, Finn & Porter. You can also order take-out food from the menus available at the Concierge desk. Then bring your lunch to the lobby gathering area, or, weather permitting, eat outside the hotel on our floor at one of the tables set up for you.
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Our meetings will be facilitated in the style of RITL (Recovery In The Lifestyle), a fellowship based on the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. The meetings are available to folks in any kind of recovery and their supporters. You do not need to be a 12-step participant to attend and participate. All those in recovery, and their supporters, are welcome.
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Participants will learn what consent, sexual assault, and sexual harassment are and will have the opportunity to practice understanding how to give and receive consent. After this session, participants will be able to identify examples of coercion, assault, and harassment as well as know-how to establish boundaries and advocate for themselves and their bodily autonomy. Participants will also learn how to set boundaries for themselves in hypothetical situations.
Speakers
- Vanessa LeMaistre (she/her)
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This presentation will address societal issues that create discrimination. The factors that affect the the inability to live with authentic expression, identity and freedom will be addressed. The participants will engage these issues through dialog and films. There will be small group activities designed to help confront these factors directly. You will leave this session with tools that will help you, your clients and your students address their “Plain, Damn, You.”
Speakers
- Susan Kaye, PhD (she/her)
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Only Rights Will Stop the Wrongs – The Relevance of Sex Work to the Issues of Our Time
- Beech ◆ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
You don’t need to be an escort or stripper to benefit from advancements in sex workers rights. Frequently referred to as “canaries in the coalmine”, sex workers are among the first to experience and resist creeping injustices that will eventually affect large segments of society. Sex worker advocates are at the forefront of efforts to end gender and racial profiling, combat censorship and discrimination, and increase access to housing, health services, and sex education. In this presentation we will review multi-issue reform trends occurring around the US resulting from the growing movement for sex workers rights.
Speakers
- Savannah Sly (she/they)
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Viewing boundaries as not just barriers, but as parameters for safe and necessary vulnerability, we explore a multidimensional framework of this popular concept. The presentation highlights contexts for boundaries ranging from the psychotherapy office to social media memes. We consider trauma and gender’s influence on what makes a boundary safe and secure, including how it changes over the lifespan. The impact of transgenerational traumas ripple through individuals, interpersonal relationships, communities and systems of care; understanding how these boundaries are expressed is integral to lasting changes that empower and heal.
Speakers
- Anne Thompson (she/her)
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No “female presenting” nipples. No “sexual solicitation.” Ads for “health,” but not for “pleasure”. Breasts can be touched but not “squeezed.” Or maybe they can? It all depends on the judgment of an anonymous under-trained moderator who might be on the other side of the world, or just down the street.
This workshop will be a detailed dive into the State of Sex on the Internet, with a particular focus on social media policy and what we know about how their content moderation works. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you probably won’t be surprised.
Speakers
- Clare Bayley (she/her)
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Legal Status and Recommendations for Multi-Parent/Multi-Partner Families in the US
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Will be Streamed
This presentation provides a brief overview of social and legal issues facing multi-partner families, identifies some practical suggestions for these families inspired by the strategies LGBTQ families have used, and suggests policies that would benefit multi-partner, LGBTQ+, and other diverse families.
Speakers
- Jonathan Lane (he/him)
- Kimberly Rhoten (they/them)
- Elisabeth Sheff (she/her)
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Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America’s ‘censor in chief,’ The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their welcome in society at large. This book explains how the same tactics were tried and eventually failed in the twentieth century, with efforts to censor music, comic books, television, and other forms of popular entertainment. The historic examples illustrate not just the mindset and tactics of censors, but why they are the ultimate counterculture warriors and why, in free societies, censors never occupy the moral high ground. This book is for anyone who wants to know more about why freedom of speech is important and how protections for free expression became part of the American identity.
Speakers
- Robert Corn-Revere (he/him)
- Ricci Joy Levy (she/her)
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For years, “allies” have told sex workers they have no rights and that only new legislation will protect them. In a groundbreaking decision, a federal magistrate judge in Gililland v. Southwestern Oregon Community College held that a nursing program’s targeted discrimination of a sex worker can constitute unlawful sex discrimination. This Presentation will start with a brief overview of federal civil rights protections—focusing on education and employment—and various theories on how sex workers fits under these protections. This will be followed by Nicole Gililland sharing her experiences as a plaintiff in her lawsuit for justice.
Speakers
- Derek J. Demeri (he/him or they/them)
- Niki Gililland (she/her)
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We will take a deep dive into how the commercial sex industry, BDSM, and Safe/Sane/Consensual practices that have been represented historically through different anime genres, with a brief discussion on the differences between trafficking and consensual sex work. Characters and plot lines will be explored for accuracy and social impact. Perhaps and honest conversation, humor and insight will open our minds and shift the paradigms of preconceived stereotypes and subtext. We hope to pointing out common misrepresentations of BDSM.
Speakers
- Shanae Adams (she/they)
- Briannah Hill (they/them)
- Becky Taha’Blu (she/they)
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Medically Supported At-Home Medication Abortion Care and the Future of Reproductive Freedom
- Birch ◆ 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
With the legal future of abortion care in jeopardy, abortion remains inaccessible for many people — existing obstacles to care were only compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed the necessity of telehealthcare for abortion. carafem, a reproductive health care provider specializing in abortion care, has provided care for over 6,000 clients via secure video conference. This presentation will highlight how providing inclusive, affirming, and unapologetic in person and at-home abortion care is a method to increase access to abortion care, particularly for BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ people, low-income folks, people with disabilities, and other historically marginalized groups.
Speakers
- Meghan McKenna (they/she)
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We’re Here, We’re Queer: Defining, Conducting and Engaging Queer Research in the Cishet Academy
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm Will be Streamed
A workshop that examines and defines the concept of queer research, engages issues related to being a queer researcher, and encourages participants to think through how they can queer their own research while showing up authentically in academic spaces that may actively work against them. With four queer academics facilitating this workshop, participants will engage and reflect on their own relationship with queer research, and leave with a personal vision statement for their own research journey.
Speakers
- Shanna K. Kattari (they/them)
- Leo Kattari (he/they)
- Jamie Kynn (they/them)
- Anthony Verdino (he/him)
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Al Vernacchio is the N-12 Sexuality Education Coordinator and also a member of the Upper School English department at Friends’ Central School. In his work as Sexuality Education Coordinator, Al teaches classes, organizes sexuality-themed programs and student assemblies, provides parent education on human sexuality topics, and is one of the faculty advisors for the Gender and Sexual Orientation Alliance (GSoA). Read more.Al will be talking about progressive sexuality education as the key to sexual freedom and justice.In a cultural moment where “Don’t Say Gay’ and anti-trans bills are being advanced in state legislatures, and fundamental sexual rights – like access to safe abortion procedures – are being threatened, age-appropriate, value-informed, medically-accurate, progressive sexuality education can be a powerful tool for exploring issues of personal identity, body autonomy, pleasure equity, and sexual justice. The classroom has always been a place to spark wonder, imagination, transformation, and growth in young people. Good education leads learners out of oppression and into possibility. It helps to create citizens who understand individual and communal rights and are committed to individual and community responsibility.. When we are courageous and creative in our classrooms, when we lead from hope rather than fear, sexuality education can have a profound and positive impact on students’ understanding of themselves, their relationships, and their world.
Speakers
- Al Vernacchio (he/him)
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Join us in honoring the first graduates of Spokes Hub, a leadership program hosted by Woodhull in collaboration with New Moon. Spokes Hub strives to support emerging sex worker advocates in developing their voice and authority on the issues. Participants from the program will share excerpts of their writing and reflections before receiving their diplomas. Come listen, learn, and celebrate with us!
Speakers
- Niki Gililland (she/her)
- Savannah Sly (she/they)
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It’s a pajama party with pillow fights, frozen bras, kissing games, dancing, and blanket forts—why leave them behind just because we’re adults? Get your Friday night party started right at Smut Slam with a night of breathless stories about your favorite pajama games. DJ Prof from Philly will be spinning the music throughout the night, so wear your dancing bedroom slippers!
Smut Slam is a storytelling open mic, where audience members sign up to tell 5-minute, real-life, first-person sex stories. A panel of local celebrity judges awards prizes for exceptional storytelling moxie, and in between stories, femme-cee Diva Darling reads anonymous questions and confessions submitted by the audience to the Fuckbucket. (So, it’s your basic wholesome family night out.) Smut Slam DC is queer-friendly, kink-friendly, fat-friendly, poly-friendly, and really just friendly.
(PJs are optional. Clothing is NOT optional. We have to share our hotel with other guests so please make sure you pass the “street clothes” test in elevators and the lobby area.)
Admission to Smut Slam is included in Summit Registration. Not able to attend the full Summit or want to bring a friend? You can buy tickets at the door for $20.
Speakers
- Diva Darling (she/her)
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Join members of Woodhull’s Board of Directors Hardy Haberman, Ted Bernhardt, and Ben Benavides for some cigars and some beverages on the patio – weather permitting.
This is an informal gathering. Bring your cigars or buy one. All proceeds benefit Woodhull!
All Day
Morning
Morning Plenary
Morning Session
Lunch
Afternoon Session 1
Afternoon Session 2
Afternoon Plenary
Evening
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Stop by the registration desk to pick up your badge and Summit attendee goody bag! The registration table will always be staffed by a Summit volunteer so feel free to stop by with any questions!
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This room has been designated as a “Sober Space” for the entire event. No alcohol, vape, smokables or other drugs are allowed in here.
This room will host several open meetings and at least one informal meet-up, intended for folks in (any flavor of) recovery and our supporters. At all other times, it is open to anyone who wants a sober and drug-free space for unwinding or quiet conversations.
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The Quiet Space is a designated room located in a quieter spot at our Summit hotel. This space is designed for anyone who might need a break from the action. The room will remain quiet and free from any loud conversation or noise. This will be open during all daytime hours at the Summit, and everyone is welcome. This is not a place to socialize.
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Come learn about some amazing sexual freedom organizations and businesses. Vendors will be sharing information and selling products. Come support those who help us make the Summit possible.
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Our meetings will be facilitated in the style of RITL (Recovery In The Lifestyle), a fellowship based on the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. The meetings are available to folks in any kind of recovery and their supporters. You do not need to be a 12-step participant to attend and participate. All those in recovery, and their supporters, are welcome.
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Coffee and a light breakfast will be served before we begin our programming for the day.
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Fierce, Focused, and Facing Forward with Rachel O’Leary Carmona
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 9:00 am - 10:30 am Will be Streamed
Where and how do we move forward from here? How do we come together to defeat those who seek to remove our most fundamental human rights? What is our message? How do we support each other? Join Rachel O’Leary Carmona, Executive Director of the Women’s March National, for answers and inspiration, for fire and fierce spirit to carry us into tomorrow.
Speakers
- Rachel O’Leary Carmona (she/her)
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Liberate Your Pleasure: An Intro to the Work of the Body Electric School
- Arbors ◆ 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
The Body Electric School offers expertly guided educational experiences grounded in the erotic and its integration with the sacred, to foster transformative personal and communal healing. Through the use of breathwork, consensual touch, awareness exercises, and the exploration of pleasure, we invite participants to expand their erotic potential within a safe, brave, and respectful container. This offering is a “Taster” event – clothing on and without erotic touch – to introduce the work of Body Electric to anyone who is curious about engaging their erotic selves to integrate body, heart, mind, and spirit. Come explore with us!
Speakers
- Craig Cullinane (he/him)
- Cecilia Li (she/her)
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Deconstructing the Dungeon: Intersectional Anti-Racism for BDSM and Sex-Positive Communities
- Aspen ◆ 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
To exist as a Person of Color in BDSM, one must often navigate racism, White supremacy and White privilege. Coupled with the challenges of navigating sex positive communities, kink spaces can become inherently unsafe for POC’s.
Under the lens of intersectionality, racism in BDSM is emblematic of the ways that communities can be monolithic, inequitable and exclusionary for multiple marginalized groups.
Deconstructing the Dungeon; Intersectional Anti-Racism for BDSM and Sex Positive Communities will use intersectionality to create a model of anti racism centered in those unique spaces.
Speakers
- Carlton Perry (he/him)
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Internet companies, even those that hold themselves as free speech champions, too often take an overly stringent approach to moderating sexual content. This presentation gives an analysis of recent and historical examples of sexual content moderation, the harms those cause, the legal policies that affect the lay of the land, and the technological infrastructures that do the moderation.
Speakers
- Daly Barnett (she/they)
- David Greene (he/him)
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Sexual Health Education’s Impact on the Human Rights of Marginalized and Underserved Youths
- Birch ◆ 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
This presentation examines the impact of the evidence-based Adolescent Sexual Health Education and Research (ASHER) program along with the “Choosing Myself” curriculum within the context of human rights and sexual freedom. Rather than a sexual health intervention program, the curriculum centers on each individual’s own values and goals to discover and determine their sexual lives. Youth are presented with information via discussions, group work, and mindful art activities to increase their retainability of the information and participation. These unique attributes allow for a comfortable environment, welcoming participants to connect with each other and create a community that can support them throughout their lives.Evidence-based measures are administered throughout the program and are designed to help understand their sexual health practices and sexual encounters, as well as any potential experiences of violence and/or exploitation.The “Choosing Myself” participants are youth in the judicial system who often do not have consistent housing which may decrease their ability to form stable and healthy relationships with those around them. This lack of stability has proven to lead to increased sexual violence, violent behaviors, decreased self-esteem, increased teen pregnancy, and future incarceration. The speakers will present the curriculum showing the human-rights framework by examining how 25 adolescents understood human rights in relation to their bodies, sexual health, sexual experiences, and sexuality. Finally, the speakers will share how those ideas changed throughout the progression of the program and in what ways.Speakers
- Dr. Jill McCracken (she/her)
- Natashia Milburn (she/her)
- Lauren Wright (she/her)
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Join acclaimed adult star, director and educator jessica drake in a revealing discussion about the perceived pitfalls of porn along with the countless benefits of Porn Literacy. With 20 years experience in the adult business as a performer turned director turned sex educator, jessica will lead a participation based workshop that dispels porn myths while managing sexual expectations.
Speakers
- Jessica Drake (she/her)
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Save The Children? Leading Movements Grounded in Sexual Healing
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Will be Streamed
How can we craft a better world for children when we don’t center them in our movements for liberation? Child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention has been siloed for too long. Join us to learn about root causes of sexual violence and the necessity of sexual healing and integrating CSA prevention into every movement for justice & liberation.
Speakers
- Aredvi Azad (they/them)
- Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera (they/them)
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Join Woodhull’s COO, Mandy Salley, for a discussion with the authors of some of the most profound and interesting books about sexual freedom. We’ll discuss their work and how these texts embrace, celebrate, and fight for sexual freedom.
Stay tuned for more information about the authors!
Speakers
- JoEllen Notte (she/her)
- Amy Sohn (she/her)
- Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (she/her)
- Ricky Tucker (he/him)
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Improving Access to Consensually Non-Monogamous (CNM) and Kink-Affirming Quality Mental Health Care
- Aspen ◆ 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Access to quality mental healthcare is a human right and yet, the task of finding quality mental healthcare is daunting, especially when you’re a non-monogamous and/or kinky person who lives on various margins. Therapists often pathologize ethical and consensual practices in addition to reinforcing biases and stigma already present in the healthcare industry, while clients are often forced to educate providers on the very topics in which they seek guidance. Explore new peer-reviewed resources the American Psychological Association Committee on Consensual Non-Monogamy (@Div44CNM) has created to help practitioners better understand and provide CNM and kink-affirming quality mental healthcare.
Speakers
- Chrissy Holman (she/her)
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Access to abortion has changed drastically across the country in the past few years and more people are having abortions outside the formal healthcare system. By criminalizing sexuality and reproduction, the state marks certain identities with a second-class status, denying people the right to live in dignity and free from discrimination. In this session: learn about the laws that impact abortions outside the healthcare system, things to consider for pregnant people thinking about self-managed abortion, protecting your rights before and during interactions with police.
Speakers
- Yveka Pierre (she/her)
- Rebecca Wang (she/her)
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The sexual well-being industry faces numerous challenges on the technological front. There are hindrances in marketing, payment gateway issues, shadow banning, censorship, etc. Most tech-giants are unaware of the nuances associated with the sexual well-being industry. Therefore, they fail to cater to small businesses and professionals within the industry. This opens up a plethora of opportunities for those, striving to provide a tech infrastructure for the sexual well-being niche with a mindset to develop discoverability. Here, we will be analyzing the different challenges and opportunities associated with sexual well-being and technology in detail.
Speakers
- Shakun Sethi (she/her)
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Professional Edgeplay: Promoting Sex Positivity, Inclusion and Other New Ideas in Professional Spaces
- Juniper ◆ 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how we can further undermine existing power structures around professional spaces and advocate for what we believe in. We will discuss a series of anecdotes around existing power structures in the sex therapy profession and open up space for participants to discuss their own experiences in their professional spaces around advocating for change. We will then offer each other advice and support as desired around these issues. By the end of the session participants should have at least 2 new strategies for managing these situations.
Speakers
- Tamara Pincus (she/her)
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This panel will focus on the legal issues surrounding sex work, human trafficking, sexual freedom, and human rights. All three panelists and the moderator are attorneys who have dedicated their careers to defending the rights of sex workers and human trafficking survivors prosecuted in criminal courts. The discussion will range from the nature of criminalization, existing criminal record relief options, as well as state and federal legislation that has recently been proposed or enacted impacting the lives of sex workers, with a special focus on intersectional vulnerabilities. The panel will also provide an understanding of the challenges to online sex work after the recent passage of SESTA/FOSTA and how this endangers safety and well-being.
Speakers
- Melissa Sontag Broudo (she/her)
- Jillian Modzeleski (she/her)
- Ryan Wall (she/her)
- Lawrence G. Walters, Esq. (he/him)
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Vicki Award Presentation with Shanna Katz Kattari
- Plaza Ballroom ◆ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Will be Streamed
Shanna K. Kattari, PhD, MEd, CSE, ACS is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the Department of Women and Gender Studies (by courtesy), and Director of the [Sexuality|Relationships|Gender] Research Collective. A White, Jewish, nonbinary, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, middle-class polyam queer fat Femme, their practice and community background is as a board certified sexologist, certified sexuality educator, and social justice advocate…read more.
Woodhull will present Shanna with their Vicki Award followed by a chat with Mandy Salley, Woodhull’s COO, about the fight for sexual freedom.
Speakers
- Shanna K. Kattari (they/them)
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Long-time sexual freedom fighter Carmen Vázquez will be honored with a candlelight service during the upcoming Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit. Carmen, who died on January 27, 2021, was a Vicki Sexual Freedom award winner and co-chair of Woodhull’s Board of Directors. Due to the pandemic, the August Summit will be our first opportunity to grieve our loss and celebrate Carmen’s life.
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Join us for a true sexual freedom celebration and Virginia’s best burlesque show sponsored by the folx at Chaturbate! Mindi Mimosa will host a night of sexy fun complete with performances by your favorite burlesque dancers! And yes, there will be lots of bubbles!
DJ Rosie gathers up all the sexy energy from the bubblicious burlesque performances and entices us to the dance floor until the wee hours of the night! Stick around and get to talk with some of the people from Chaturbate…maybe even dance with someone from the premier adult website providing live webcam performances by individual webcam models and couples. The night is magic!
Admission to Bubbles & Burlesque is included in Summit Registration. Not able to attend the full Summit or want to bring a friend? You can buy tickets at the door for $20.
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Join members of Woodhull’s Board of Directors Hardy Haberman, Ted Bernhardt, and Ben Benavides for some cigars and some beverages on the patio – weather permitting.
This is an informal gathering. Bring your cigars or buy one. All proceeds benefit Woodhull!