SPFPP 241: Sex Negative Power Flexes

Jessica Werner is an Ohio public health worker who recently through her efforts to advocate for uterus owners of color, LGBT community members, masturbation as STD Prevention and contraception was terminated from her place of employment for being sex positive. We talk a lot about censorship on social media regularly to the point of having to change spelling and wording to talk about sex education in order for it to maintain visibility on the social platforms. I'm active most on Instagram and see sex educators facing just having their content removed or not visible, but Jessica was fired for literally doing her job. There's a political agenda for what STD Prevention efforts are supposed to look like even at Government funding awarded organizations for them to . . . do their jobs? I don't even know anymore. Jessica was interviewed by media outlets and those are linked in the show notes. Sex education empowers people to take their power back through liberation of self. The status quo loses its control over the profitability of oppressed bodies when we learn that, so support a sex educator as soon as you can by uplifting their content, Venmoing if possible, and working with us when you can.

Washington Post Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/23/ohio-abortion-firing/

WKYC Article: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/state-health-department-fires-employee-abortion-drug-reference-newsletter/95-361f7f19-9f27-4030-970b-05cd496d210f