We have one project that has been running for over five years: teasecraft, a meetup group for sex/kink-positive makers, hackers, and crafters. Kit first began working in sex-positive activism by building (hilariously nerdy) sex toys, sharing their knowledge, and encouraging other people to do the same.
After experiencing a number of obstacles in Kit's own work, including having a new bank account shut down after only 30 minutes, the Effing Foundation grew out of Kit's desire to affect widespread social change beyond crafting shiny sex toys.
This page should really be called "What We Want To Do If We Had The Resources":
- We recently launched a grant program for sex-positive artistic and/or educational projects, and we've awarded grants to some amazing projects.
- As these projects get underway, we'll collect those success stories as examples of the type of work the Foundation is trying to foster.
- Now we need to raise funds to cover the Foundation's core expenses: most notably, personnel. Kit's been working on the Foundation in one way or another for over six years without compensation, and Kit can't sustain that for much longer.
- We can also put new funds towards more rounds of grants for sex-positive projects!
- We need your donations to continue the work of the Foundation and make even more grants.
What else would we like to do? As we're able to grow the Foundation, we have a lot of ideas:
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Award grants to individuals and groups with sex-positive educational and/or artistic projects
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Next 1-3 years |
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Provide educational resources to sex-positive individuals and groups
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Next 2-3 years Publish a series of ebooks or courses on how to do public, sex-positive work as an educator or artist Next 4-6 years Create a sex-positive digital lending library (videos/books) in partnership with the Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Publish information on preserving privacy and good how-to's of relevant software tools in partnership with an organization like the Open Internet Tools Project (https://openitp.org/) Launch a knowledge repository for sex-positive projects (e.g., Instructables.com) |
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Provide social resources and support to sex-positive educators and artists
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Next 2-3 years Launch an online forum for people to find collaborators and share ideas Next 4-6 years Host or co-host a conference to provide opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences for people who are currently doing sex-positive work or who are interested in starting such work |
Do you want to see more sex-positive goodness out in the world? Do you want to encourage more conversations around human sexuality? Please make a donation today.