Project 2025 is Project 1873

New laws limit access to reproductive health care and threaten doctors with prison. Religious zealots and opportunistic politicians team up to ban books and "protect" children from their "immoral" influence. Sound familiar? Welcome to America in the late 19th-century under the "Comstock Act," a federal law that sharply limited contraception, abortion, and the distribution of virtually any information about sex.

SEX RADICAL is a documentary-drama about one woman who dared to challenge that law — the sex educator, scholar, and pioneering feminist, Ida Craddock. Defending the right of a woman to "control her own person" — and her individual right to freedom of expression — Craddock risked everything by publishing frank instructional pamphlets about sex. This film tells her inspiring and timely story.

Fighting for Freedom, Then as Now

SEX RADICAL illuminates a history of the long struggle for gender equality, freedom of expression, and reproductive rights that is now critically important for the American public to understand. Astonishingly, the 150-year-old Comstock Act — the very same oppressive law that was used to silence Ida Craddock — has recently been advanced by anti-abortion activists as a "backdoor" means of enforcing a nationwide ban on medication abortion. We want our film to help raise awareness about the threat to freedom that the recently revived Comstock Act poses. And we hope that the example of Ida Craddock's courage will inspire modern day "sex radicals" to put Comstock's ghost to rest, once and for all!