The Sexual Health Exploration Project
Working to Support and Promote
Embodiminded Autonomy for All People
Since 2022
Mission
The Sexual Health Exploration Project (or Sexploration Project for short) is an interdisciplinary, feminist public science project, led by a mosaic of community members dedicated to and engaged in lifelong learning. We are exploring the breadth and depth sexuality and sexual health, by centering the voices and lived experiences of everyday people. From focus groups, to community roundtables, to virtual trainings, and our public educational campaigns, our project is producing insights into the who, what, how, when, where, and why of positive human sexual experiences. We hope this work will better inform community programming, future data collection efforts, innovative research and scholarly work, institutional funding priorities and initiatives, policy protections, and more.
Vision
We envision a world in which all forms of agentic and consensual sex/uality and intimacy are understood and affirmed. This, by default, includes a future in which the embodiminded autonomy of all people is recognized and protected, individually, interpersonally, communally, and institutionally.
Values
Together, our team:
— approaches sex and sexuality from a positive, health promotive, and strengths-based perspective;
— understands that work on sex/uality is deep, transformative, and sometimes traumatic work, but is it also fun, pleasurable, and full of joy;
— values accountability, transformative justice, non-hierarchical models of coexisting, and the power of the people;
— upholds and promotes the fundamental human right to 2LGBTQIA+ and sexual and gender minority (SGM) embodiminded autonomy; and,
— is committed to repairing harms caused by White Supremacist, eugenicist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist and sanist policies and initiatives.
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