About Us

2011 and into the future…

Woodhull has been hard at work to combat the prohibition of pleasure, the rollbacks on hard-won freedoms and protections and to advance an agenda that recognizes the wonderful diversity of sex, sexuality and our rights to make informed, consensual choices in our lives.

As a leader in advocacy and activism for sexual freedom, rights and liberty, Woodhull is uniquely positioned to bring together allies and partners in these efforts. In the last year alone, Woodhull enjoyed many victories and accomplishments. Here is a short list of highlights:

• We changed our name to Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, reflecting our position of a convener of activists and as a resource for progressive initiatives that advance sexual freedom.
• We compile and distribute the Sexual Freedom eNews 5 days a week since 2003, informing subscribers to this free service of important news and views about sexuality.
• We celebrated the second annual Sexual Freedom Day with an educational event called “Sexual Outlaws:  The Prohibition of Pleasure”.  Sexual Freedom Day is Woodhull’s flagship event and features the release of the annual State of Sexual Freedom in the United States report.
• We presented the second annual “Vicki” awards (an homage to our namesake, Victoria Woodhull) recognizing extraordinary perssonal achievements in advancing sexual rights and freedom to Ajamu Baraka, Bob Corn-Revere and Carmen Vazquez.
• We continue to participate  in the on-going United Nations Universal Periodic Review monitoring process for human rights violations in the United States.
• We co-chair the Sexual Rights and Gender Justice Working Group for the US Human Rights Network.
• Woodhull’s accomplishments were formally recognized by Proclamation in Washington, DC, as well as formal recognition of the celebration of Sexual Freedom Day.
• We conduct trainings and give workshops on the integration of the human rights framework into existing advocacies.
• We lobbied successfully inFlorida to ensure that there is no sex offender registry language in sexting bill  SB 888.
• We continue to lobby against shackling of incarcerated women in labor.
• We continued to make history as part of an unprecedented advocacy collaboration between sex worker and sex workers rights groups, human rights advocates, academic researchers and family members of sex workers, Human Rights For All: Concerned Advocates for the Rights of Sex Workers and People in the Sex Trade (HRA) that resulted in the United States Federal Government’s official condemnation of violence and discrimination against sex workers!