OUR BELIEFS

Sexuality includes sexual activity, gender identities and roles, gender expression, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. The free expression of sexuality is critical to physical, emotional, social, and political well-being. This freedom depends on consent, bodily autonomy, and the right to live without discrimination, coercion, or violence.

Every person is entitled to full bodily autonomy and integrity. This includes the right to desire, refuse, reproduce, not reproduce, move freely, gather publicly, access care, express gender and sexuality, and exist without shame or punishment.

We oppose the moral policing of bodies by the State. The State has sought to regulate sexuality, gender expression, reproduction, movement, and sexual behavior between consenting people through repression, marginalization, surveillance, and punishment. Sexual oppression and discrimination are forms of violence. Sexual rights are inseparable from bodily autonomy, and they must be protected, respected, practiced, and defended.

PILLARS

  • Each human being is entitled to exercise their sexuality free from discrimination, coercion, and violence. Sexual freedom is not a privilege granted by the State, the Church, the family, or the market. It is inseparable from bodily autonomy: the right to desire, refuse, express, explore, reproduce, not reproduce, move freely, gather publicly, access care, and exist without shame, punishment, or control.

  • We oppose the moral policing of bodies by the State. The State has sought to regulate sexuality, gender expression, reproduction, movement, and sexual behavior between consenting people through repression, marginalization, surveillance, and punishment.

  • We believe sexual liberation is collective. Systems of oppression do not act alone, and our resistance must account for the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, migration, labor, and reproduction shape bodily freedom.

  • Religion has imposed great violence against our bodies. When the state enforces religious morality through law, policy, and punishment, it becomes an instrument of religious violence. Without secularism, sexual justice is not possible.

  • Freedom of movement is bodily autonomy. We defend the right to move, stay, flee, return, gather, build kinship, create families, and live freely in our bodies. We reject borders, detention, deportation, and the criminalization of migration as systems of sexual, reproductive, and bodily control. Migration is not a crime. It is a condition produced by colonial exploitation, capitalist extraction, war, climate devastation, and state violence.

  • Tradition and norms do not define morality. Sexuality is not immoral, and it is not the role of tradition, religion, or the State to define sexual morality. Ethics belong in how we treat one another: consent, honesty, care, dignity, and mutual respect.

  • Purity culture is a dangerous perversion. Virginity is a social construct. We reject the heterosexist proposition that virginity is a virtue.

  • Heteronormative sexuality is not an ideal, standard, or rule. All consensual expressions of sexuality are valid, including asexuality, eroticism, intimacy, kink, and sexual play without orgasm.

  • Children are not property. Young people have bodily autonomy, dignity, and the right to self-identify. They have the right to name themselves, express their gender, understand their bodies, ask questions, set boundaries, refuse unwanted touch, and change their minds without being punished for becoming. They deserve protection from coercion, abuse, shame, punishment, and forced conformity. We reject the use of “protection” as a cover for control.


  • Sex work is valid labor. Sex workers deserve dignity, protection, and labor standards defined by sex workers themselves. The exploitation of sex workers is labor abuse, not evidence of sexual failure or moral disorder.

  • Reproductive justice is bodily autonomy. Abortion is an exercise of agency over one’s body, future, and life. Every person has the right to become pregnant, not become pregnant, end a pregnancy, continue a pregnancy, parent, not parent, and create family free from coercion, shame, criminalization, or control. The forced-birth agenda is not a belief in the sanctity of life. It is a strategy of political power.

  • We reject prisons, policing, detention, and state punishment as systems of bodily control. Harm requires accountability, but punishment must not become torture. Cages, isolation, sexual violence, medical neglect, and humiliation do not create safety. We believe justice must be rooted in repair, prevention, transformation, and the defense of bodily autonomy.

  • All gender identities and expressions, as defined by the individual, are valid. We reject imposed gender roles and are building toward a post-gender world.

  • We oppose those who possess the power to define and legislate shame.

  • Institutions and figures of authority do not possess a greater claim to truth, morality, or legitimacy than the people whose bodies they seek to govern.

  • We reject surveillance, punishment, and carceral control as responses to sexuality, survival, movement, reproduction, and gender expression.

  • Our beliefs and approach should never be dogmatic. We are open to critique and practice constant revolution.


DEFINITIONS

Militant describes actions or actors who are organized, confrontational, and uncompromising in pursuit of a political or social cause. Militancy does not mean violence for its own sake. It means a refusal to remain passive in the face of domination, repression, and control.

Sexuality encompasses sexual activity, sex characteristics, gender identities and roles, gender expression, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. Sexuality is shaped by the interaction of biological, psychological, social, economic, political, cultural, legal, historical, religious, and spiritual factors.