SEX MILITANT IS A CONVICTION, AN ACTION, AND A POLITIC OF THE BODY.
Sex Militant is a collective project of artists and activists committed to sexual revolution and bodily liberation through performance, advocacy, and direct action. It is a declaration of intent made necessary by the material conditions of our lives.
We believe the body is a site of freedom, expression, pleasure, survival, and political struggle. Every person has the right to desire, refuse, reproduce, not reproduce, move freely, gather publicly, and exist without shame or punishment.
Across institutions, the body is disciplined, surveilled, punished, and made available for control. The state restricts reproduction. The church sanctifies obedience. The police criminalize survival. The clinic withholds care. The prison contains bodies deemed disposable. The border regulates movement. The market profits from shame, desirability, and sexual exploitation. These forces do not operate separately. Together, they produce a social order in which autonomy is treated as a threat.
Let us be clear: sexual oppression and discrimination are forms of violence. This violence regulates what bodies may do, what pleasures may be visible, what identities may be recognized, what care may be accessed, what movement may be permitted, and what futures may be imagined.
Against this, neutrality is surrender.
To be Sex Militant is to advance sexual and reproductive liberation as a politic of the body. Sex Militants are networked for action and committed to defending sexual freedom, bodily autonomy, and reproductive self-determination for all people.
We are no longer waiting for representation, permission, or respectability to challenge the daily injustices levied against our bodies. We will not ask politely for the right to exist in our bodies.
We, who have been denied power and resources, will innovate, organize, and develop tactics that meet our needs. We will use strategies justified by the scale and force of those who seek to control us. We take the perversion projected onto our sexuality and our bodies and transform it into a liberating force.
We recognize the need for a diversity of tactics. Militancy is necessary, reasoned, and practical.
Society’s discomfort with public expressions of sexuality is not incidental. It is a symptom of moral tyranny. We threaten that tyranny through visibility, performance, refusal, mutual defense, and political confrontation.
Sex Militant is a conviction, an action, and a politic of the body. We defend the body where it is restricted. We celebrate the body where it is shamed. We organize the body where it is isolated. We make the body visible where it has been erased.
The structures that benefit from sexual oppression will not reform themselves. They must be confronted, disrupted, and dismantled.
