MPH Culminating Project

As my culminating project for my Human Sexuality certificate, I created an art piece about the censorship of female nudity online and the impact of FOSTA-SESTA on sex workers. I also hoped to convey the cognitive dissonance between the consumption of women’s bodies and the opposition to autonomy over our sexuality.

FOSTA-SESTA passed in 2018 and was marketed as a way to stop sex trafficking online, but really it has made life less safe for folks who work in the sex industry. It has also led to increasingly stringent regulation of online speech, more shadowbanning of activists and organizers than ever before, and an absurd amount of unreasonable censorship online.

Female bodies aren’t “inappropriate”. Sex work is work.

[Image Description: A series of photographs with Cady as the only subject, centered on a black background. She is covered in white paint with black paint over her mouth, breasts, and genitals. In some photos her eyes are closed and in others they are open, either looking directly at the camera or at a subject out of frame.]