SEX MILITANT IS A CONVICTION, AN ACTION, AND A COALITION.

Sex Militant is a project developed by a collective of artists and activists committed to sexual revolution and liberation through performance, advocacy, and direct action.

We believe that the free expression of sexuality is critical to our physical, emotional, and social well-being and that each human being is entitled to full bodily autonomy and integrity. However, the State has sought to police sexual identities, reproduction, and sexual behaviors between consenting individuals through repression, marginalization, and punishment. Let us be clear, sexual oppression and discrimination is violence, and we are fighting back. The sexual rights of all persons must be protected, respected, and fulfilled.

To be Sex Militant is to be fiercely committed to the advancement of sexual and reproductive liberation. Sex Militants are networked for action and empowered to shamelessly advocate for the protection, respect, and fulfillment of sexual rights for all people. We are you, and you are one of us. We are no longer waiting for representation and permission to challenge the daily injustices levied against our bodies.

We, who have limited power and resources, will innovate and develop tactics that meet our needs and engage in strategies that are justifiable in response to the force of those who seek to control us. We weaponize the perversion of our sexuality and our bodies as a liberating force. Power concedes nothing without a fight.

We recognize the need to employ a diversity of tactics, and believe that militancy is necessary, reasoned, and practical when pushing back against a power that has imposed and funded forced birth programs, tortured LGBTQ+ folks in conversion camps, and willfully condoned sexual violence against citizens — to name a few brutalities levied against the people. Society’s discomfort with public expressions of sexuality is a symptom of moral tyranny, and we threaten this tyranny through visibility, performance, and political confrontation. Action, directed and organized by the people, is necessary. The power structures which benefit and profit off of sexual oppression will be destroyed.