September 2011

The Sexual Freedom Project: Make Your Voice Heard

The Sexual Freedom Project is a series that will highlight your original and creative efforts around addressing the question, “What does sexual freedom mean to you?” It will feature your videos, stories, poetry and artwork exploring the role sexual freedom plays in your life today, how the media covers sexuality, gender, and popular culture, or anything else that comes to mind when you think of sexual freedom. Send us your personal take on these questions, or on any of the other varied topics covered by VenusPlusX.

We will also feature works created by the VenusPlusX staff, including video interviews filmed on the street, in parks, restaurants, over the Internet, and anywhere sexual freedom is being discussed.

To thank you for the submission of your original video, story, poem or artwork that we feature on the site, we will send you a free VenusPlusX t-shirt. It’s easy! For instance, you can use your videocamera, phone, or computer to make a 1-2 minute video sharing your thoughts. You could also write a short story or an essay in response to a post you read here on the site, write a poem, or create a piece of art. We look forward to your creativity!

Jack and Adrianna model our fabulous t-shirts

VenusPlusX’s soft cotton t-shirts feature the Statue of Freedom, Columbia, as it appears atop the U.S. Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C., a deeply embedded, gender-nonconforming American icon that inspires us to work harder for universal equality and sexual freedom.

For more information on how to submit your videos and stories, click here or contact us directly at columbia@venusplusx.org.

Be a part of the conversation, let your voice be heard and shared all over the world, and make us your digital platform of choice — a place where your views can have great impact. After all, isn’t expressing yourself what freedom is all about?


Newly designed and greatly expanded website coming

Just thought I’d let everyone know that we have been working hard all summer to develop campaigns and initiatives to help usher in “The New Age of Sexual Freedom” – a world free from the global culture of racial, sexual, and gender oppression and violence  currently supported by governments, religions, commerce, and social customs.

In a few days, we will go dark for 24 hours to upload our newly designed website with expanded content and new resources. We are especially proud of our new roster of Feature Editors, Guest Editors, and Guest Bloggers, such as . . .

Kushaba Moses Mwreko and Adrianna Midama will be writing more about global sexual freedom, and keeping up their annotated bibliography for anyone needing a quick education on international issues.

Dan Massey will continue to write on the broad topic of Transhuman Erotic Freedom, adding to his large archive developed over the last 6 months. Prepare for The New Age of Sexual Freedom.

Guest Editor, Jos Truitt, will moderate a national conversation on Transunity and Transleadership, addressing lots of challenging questions. And, later this month, Jos, Alison, and Dan will be hosting several live twitter chats at Atlanta’s Southern Comfort Conference later this month.

Jack Diehl will be giving us his wry take on his favorite news stories everyday. And be sure to can check out Tiye Massey‘s daily post of one of our latest YouTube video (or guest blog) featuring anyone of you who can answer, “What does sexual freedom mean to me?” If you send your written or video story or call us up on Skype-record, we’ll send you a free VenusPlusX t-shirt for participating.

One of the good results of expanding our online presence, and the new staff to support all these editors, is that I will at last have the time to devote myself two subjects that tie in with all this. First, reporting out my research into American fundamentalist groups (that include, sadly, current U.S. Senators and Representatives) involved today in exporting hate and homophobia in the name of religion but only for their own (and their associate’s) commercial interest, all on your tax dollars. And, bringing to life the grassroots’ boots on the ground fighting for immediate relief from police bias and full federal equality rights.

We hope you find these new feature interesting and enticing, and look forward to getting your comments on the new site once we go live next week. In fact, we crave your criticism so we can do a better job.

Alison Gardner, co-founder of VenusPlusX