Our mission

At Cobra Lily, our mission is to empower individuals and to increase participants’ safety and well-being through verbal, emotional, and physical self-defense strategies. By learning from each other how to defend our bodies and enforce our boundaries in a variety of contexts (work, personal, familial), we augment our autonomy, self-confidence and self-determination. 

In accordance with our values, we place the knowledge and expertise of sex workers at the heart of our method, while adapting our practice to meet the needs of all participants. Having a harm reduction and intersectional approach, our self-defense workshops provide a safe space to share preventative strategies, heal, and regain self-esteem and a sense of agency in the face of violence and systemic oppression.