Executive Director Jocelyn Foye gets interviewed by Jonathan Carney of RI Atheists.
Questions answered:
Was Trump winning the election the spark and motviating factor behing the founding of the Womxn Project in 2017?
Why is Womxn spelled with an x in your organization’s name?
What specific kind of work did your organization do to get the 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act passed? What was your relationship with Rep. Anastasia P. Williams at the time?
What kind of effort did it take to set up the Womxn Project Education Fund?
What has been your favorite Public Art project you’ve engaged in over the past several years?
I noticed while looking through your website that many of your education and activist campaigns are responses to anti-choice activists’ campaigns, such as the “40 Days of Relenting” campaign. How tough is it to keep up with the funadmantalists’ campaigning? – feed into Jamestown Library
I saw you have an Art Lab as well – what’s that like? Is it a place people can go to to make activist art, what is the space like?
You’re a mother as well. Has that played any role at all in your advocacy?
In the years since the passing of the Reproductive Privacy Act that you helped support, what do you think have been the Womxn Project’s greatest achievements?
I saw that Rhode Island College awarded you the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters … can you tell me what that was about?