It’s always funny when someone tries to warn people about us and accidentally writes a recruitment brochure instead. Anyway, if you care about reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA+ rights, and government transparency in Rhode Island, welcome aboard.
We here at The Womxn Project want to thank Amy Rodrigues, the head of Mom’s for Liberty in Rhode Island, for lifting up our organization.
A surprising number of she and other critics seem deeply upset that people in Rhode Island are:
• organizing
• voting
• lobbying
• making art
• advocating for healthcare access
Which really does reinforce the importance of our work– now more than ever.
Donate $5 today and then we will write a thank you card with a donation amount that was accumulated from this mini gift to Amy and all at the Mom’s for Liberty club saying thank you for recognizing the hard work we do for ALL Rhode Islanders.
Below is the post they wrote and shared…
by Constant Freeman, May 09, 2026
The Womxn Project: The Providence Organization Monitoring, Scoring, and Mobilizing Against Every School Committee and Town Council in Rhode Island
Most Rhode Island parents have never heard of The Womxn Project. That is precisely how the organization has preferred it.
Since roughly 2017 a Providence based activist organization has been quietly building something that most Rhode Island communities had no idea existed. A public database rating every elected official in the state. A trained volunteer network monitoring every school committee and town council meeting across all 39 municipalities. A statewide mobilization infrastructure designed to deploy organized outside pressure into local communities on short notice. And a legal instrument now embedded in state law that makes it financially risky for any school district to remove or restrict any library material even when local parents raise legitimate age appropriateness concerns.
This report does not rely on anonymous sources or political speculation. Nearly everything documented here comes directly from The Womxn Project’s own website, their own blog, their own social media accounts, their own legislative testimony, and their own publicly available grant records. The organization has been transparent about its goals and its methods. The question is whether the communities it targets have been paying attention.
They should be now.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE OPERATION
The Womxn Project operates as a dual nonprofit structure specifically engineered to maximize both political pressure and financial flexibility.
The Womxn Project is organized as a 501(c)(4). This is the lobbying and political pressure arm. It handles direct candidate accountability, the Bodily Freedom Forever Index scoring system, public pressure campaigns, mailers, and political mobilization. As a 501(c)(4) it is not required to disclose its donors. It does not.
The Womxn Project Education Fund is organized as a 501(c)(3). This is the organizing and programming arm. It handles community education, screen printing workshops, artivism events, grassroots volunteer training, the A|R|T Lab space, and grant funded programming.
Executive Director Jocelyn Foye, co-founder of both entities, leads the operation. In 2025 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhode Island College and a Bannister Award, recognitions that reflect how deeply embedded the organization has become in Rhode Island’s progressive institutional network. Foye has publicly stated that TWP’s impact has not been to do advocacy in the invited spaces that government deems proper. Instead by thinking and acting like artists the organization has been strategic in creating invented spaces to educate others and lobby for its causes.
In plain language the organization operates deliberately outside normal civic channels. It has said so publicly and it is proud of it.
WHAT BODILY FREEDOM FOREVER MEANS IN PRACTICE
The Womxn Project’s entire operation is built around a philosophy called Bodily Freedom Forever defined as the right to sole decision making power over one’s body so long as it does not infringe on another’s. In practice as applied to Rhode Island school committees and town councils their own materials make clear what this philosophy requires.
Unrestricted reproductive access including full Medicaid funded abortion coverage. Full gender affirming care protections including for minors with no required parental consent threshold in their framing. Transgender student policies that they argue must remain without broad parental input or opt out options. Opposition to any book challenges including challenges by local parents to materials they find sexually explicit or age inappropriate for K-12 classrooms and school libraries. Opposition to parental rights measures which they explicitly label as Christian Nationalist tactics. Opposition to any restrictions on DEI curricula in public schools. And public labeling of any opposition to the above from parents, school committees, or town councils as bigotry, hate, or right wing attacks.
Their own materials state directly that TWP and its volunteers follow the activities of school committees, town and city councils, and judicial nominating committees in all 39 municipalities in Rhode Island. If bodily freedom is at issue they will be there mobilizing their community and training them to testify, protest, and speak out.
They do not negotiate. They show up, pack rooms, and publicly document the positions of officials who disagree with them.
THE MONEY TRAIL
The Womxn Project demands radical public transparency from every elected official in every one of Rhode Island’s 39 towns. They publish public scorecards. They mobilize voters against officials they disfavor. Yet when it comes to their own finances the picture is considerably less transparent.
The Education Fund received a $200,000 anonymous grant in May 2025 specifically to establish their permanent Providence headquarters and the A|R|T Lab. The organization is also a partner in a $750,000 multi year Catalyst Grant from the Rhode Island Foundation in coalition with the Girl Scouts and others for the RI Girls Coalition focused on artivism and programming for girls and gender expansive youth. The 501(c)(4) lobbying arm discloses zero donors.
The organization’s stated reason for not disclosing donors is to protect them from harassment. That explanation may or may not be accurate. What is undeniable is this. An organization whose entire public brand is built on accountability for elected officials, an organization that grades and publishes the positions of every school committee member and town councilor in Rhode Island, refuses to tell the public who is paying for it.
The $200,000 anonymous donor who funded their permanent Providence headquarters could be a local individual, a national advocacy fund, a pharmaceutical company with financial interest in reproductive healthcare policy, or a dark money network with a national agenda. Rhode Islanders have no way of knowing. The organization that demands transparency from everyone else has not provided it for itself.
THE BODILY FREEDOM FOREVER INDEX
The most operationally significant tool TWP has built is the Bodily Freedom Forever Index, a publicly searchable online database that rates and scores every candidate and elected official in Rhode Island including every school committee member and town councilor in all 39 municipalities.
A 75 plus volunteer Research Collective uses public records, votes, public statements, social media, and direct candidate surveys to build profiles on every official. Officials are rated on TWP’s two axis standard covering reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights including gender affirming care, trans student protections, and opposition to book challenges. A strong BFFI rating means full alignment with their agenda. A weak rating means a public target for voter mobilization and organized pressure.
They maintain district specific pages for every town in Rhode Island so activists can instantly access the scores for any local school committee and town council. They update it every election cycle and use it to drive volunteer resources to priority targets.
Their own BFFI documentation notes that Rhode Island consistently votes blue but acknowledges that many candidates put a D after their name while their philosophies veer right. The BFFI is designed specifically to identify those officials and replace them. School committees are flagged as a top priority because in TWP’s own assessment many school committee members in Rhode Island’s towns do not support bodily freedom.
The database is publicly accessible at thewomxnproject.org. Any Rhode Island resident can look up their school committee and town council right now and see how TWP has already rated their local officials.
THE BODILY FREEDOM ACTION LEAGUE
The scoring index is the targeting system. The Bodily Freedom Action League is the mobilization infrastructure.
The BFAL is a statewide network of volunteers specifically trained to monitor all 39 school committees, town and city councils, and judicial nominating committees across Rhode Island on an ongoing basis. They are trained to deploy on short notice to meetings, many of which are not heavily publicized in advance, to ensure TWP’s presence is felt at deliberations. They testify, fill seats, and display artivism props so that decision makers are aware they are being monitored. They are trained to oppose on sight any book challenges, parental rights measures, restrictions on trans or gender diverse student policies, DEI curriculum changes, or anything TWP classifies as outside the bounds of its bodily freedom standard.
This is not a collection of local parents independently deciding to engage with their school community. This is a centrally coordinated Providence headquartered operation with a leadership structure, paid staff, trained volunteers, an office space, and multi year grant funding deploying into community meetings across the state.
When TWP shows up at a Smithfield, North Smithfield, Westerly, or Chariho meeting the people filling those seats may not live in the town and may not have children in the schools. Their agenda was set in Providence.
DOCUMENTED REAL WORLD IMPACT
The operation’s track record across Rhode Island is documented in the organization’s own materials.
Chariho Regional School Committee covering Hopkinton, Richmond, and Charlestown became a documented priority target. TWP organized counter presence at multiple meetings to defend trans student protections, DEI education, and library policies against book challenges. Hundreds attended meetings with the majority of public testimony coordinated and aligned with TWP’s positions. The organization publicly celebrated the departure of conservative committee leadership and has continued monitoring the region.
Smithfield became another documented target. TWP publicly declared Eyes on Smithfield’s full MAGA school committees on their own social media channels. This is not neutral civic monitoring. It is a declared targeting operation using the organization’s own language.
North Smithfield, Westerly, and communities across the state appear in TWP’s own blog and social posts as active organizing targets. Their materials confirm the pattern across all 39 school districts with priority placed on towns where school committees have questioned any DEI, gender, or library policies.
Former Senate Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey, a Democrat, became a target when TWP led organized opposition to his judicial nomination because his record did not meet their bodily freedom threshold. The organization has demonstrated it will apply its scoring standard and mobilize pressure against members of its own party.
THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT
In 2025 The Womxn Project was a lead partner in passing the Freedom to Read Act signed into law on June 20 2025. The law prohibits book restrictions in public and school libraries statewide. It protects librarians and staff from any consequence for maintaining challenged materials. It creates the first in the nation private right of action meaning individuals can now sue school districts or libraries that restrict materials with potential damages. And it guarantees access to materials covering the specific categories TWP has prioritized including LGBTQ topics, racial identity, and related themes.
To advance the bill TWP volunteers created art from pages of challenged books and delivered them to lawmakers, a media strategy designed to reframe parental concerns about explicit content as censorship. The law now makes it financially risky for any school committee or library board to remove or restrict any material even when challenges come from local parents with legitimate age appropriateness concerns. The legal and financial burden now falls on the town. Not on the organization that lobbied for the law.
THE 2026 AGENDA
According to their own 2026 Action Plan TWP is currently pushing the following at the Rhode Island State House. Codification and expansion of the RI Voting Rights Act with an explicit connection in their materials to ensuring their preferred candidates win elections. Health insurance non discrimination language updates covering gender identity. The Speak Your Truth Act providing anti SLAPP protections. Protection of Medicaid abortion coverage from any state or federal restriction. Tax increases on high earners paired with expanded social safety nets. Targeting pro life pregnancy resource centers in Providence which they label fake family clinics. And monitoring and influencing judicial nominating committees in all 39 municipalities.
Their response to the current national trend toward more conservative governance is to accelerate their Rhode Island operation. More towns. More meetings. More monitoring. More pressure.
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS
The Womxn Project’s 2026 Action Plan states that the organization sees signs of Rhode Island following national trends working to erase or exclude women, LGBTQ people, black and brown communities, and disabled people. Their founding philosophy explicitly rejects operating in invited spaces meaning normal civic participation in favor of invented spaces defined as manufactured pressure, public spectacle, and disruption designed to force outcomes outside traditional democratic deliberation.
The organization does not trust the democratic process to produce the outcomes it seeks. It has built a parallel infrastructure, a scorecard, an action league, a training program, an artivism operation, a legal instrument in the Freedom to Read Act, and a permanent headquarters funded by an anonymous donor, designed to apply organized outside pressure to local communities that never invited the organization in.
That is not a characterization. That is what their own materials describe.
WHAT RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITIES CAN DO
The Freedom to Read Act raised the legal threshold for material removal but it did not eliminate the rights of parents or elected officials to participate in their school communities. Local officials and parents retain the right to attend every public meeting, speak during public comment, and make their voices heard through the democratic process.
The BFFI is public. Any Rhode Island resident can review how their local officials have been scored and decide for themselves whether those ratings reflect their community’s values.
Parents and residents can ask at any public meeting whether individuals testifying are local residents or members of an organized network from outside the community. That is a fair and appropriate question in any democratic deliberation.
And every school committee and town council seat across all 39 Rhode Island municipalities will appear on a ballot. The same democratic process TWP works to influence through organized pressure remains available to every Rhode Island voter.
The Womxn Project has made its presence, its methods, its agenda, and its funding structure a matter of public record through its own materials. Rhode Island communities now have the same information.
What they do with it is up to them.“
