Cyberspace – Thursday, April 20 is Give OUT Day, a national fundraising day that allows the Center for Sex & Culture to get the word out about our programs and our need for support. Please help us pass the word and donate if you can.

The URL: https://www.giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/sexandculture

This year feels different in so many ways: Every time we look at the news, issues the CSC team has been working on for years (decades, in my case!) are newly volatile, with hard-gotten gains at risk and the things we care most about in danger: sex education (hell, education as a whole!); the rights of people across the gender and sexuality spectrums; compassionate dicourse about commonalities and differences. All the people who rely on CSC for space to teach or meet seem to be affected too, and all we can do right now is re-commit–on their behalf and yours–to the work (and play!) we do at the Center for Sex & Culture.

There’s a wonderful art exhibit up now at CSC depicting the broadest possible range of beauty. Every single one of us–the longtime Bay Area denizens, the techy newcomers, the people all over the country who tune in to our work or come use the archives–deserves the beauty and pleasure of sexuality, if we choose it, and we have to stand up to those who don’t believe that. We document via our archive the movements that have given us the LGBT communities, the sex-positive movement, reproductive justice, the sex worker rights movement, the growth of the kink community, sex-related publishing, our increased understanding of gender diversity, and so much more. No matter what the future holds, these collections are important NOW–and the people representing all that who use CSC are, too–because we have been marginalized in the past. This is such an important moment as more and more people awaken to the need to educate, find community, fight for rights. It continues generation after generation. Freedom isn’t free, as many have pointed out, and CSC seeks to be a resource center for the the world we’ve all lived, the hidden world out of which that emerged, and the world that is yet to come.

Please support us in our work. Please pass it on. We are so grateful to you.

Here’s that URL: https://www.giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/sexandculture

That link is set so that donations made NOW through Thursday will count as Give OUT Day contributions; groups with the largest number of individual contributors, most money raised, etc. will get bonus grants as well. So your sharing of Give OUT Day info on our behalf WILL make a difference!