ABBA
Ah, the ultimate in teen-soft-pop. This original ABBA music video for “Take A Chance On Me” had me cracking up this morning, and I had to share it.
It was made back when soft edges and massive blue eye shadow were still cool and they didn’t really know how to move a video camera and [...]
Archives for August, 2008
I need your help!
I am hoping to present a panel at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival - and I need your help!
First here is information about the panel I’d like to present:
Sex Ed Online: How Teens Self Savvy
Creators of popular online teen sexuality content—including the Midwest Teen Sex Show and Scarleteen.com—community educators, scholars and advocates discuss teenagers, sex, [...]
Racism and Relationships
[This post written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen]
I have just completed a summer program at the southeastern university that I will be attending starting next week. The program was a math refresher course for incoming freshmen, around 30 in total with four being a minority and four being female. I have three suitemates, and since the [...]
Homosexuality
I learned this week that I have no patience for people who are anti-homosexual. Part of the issue is that I just don’t get it. I just don’t understand why one person would have such strong feelings as to be “anti-” two women or two men being in a loving, sexual relationship. Why all the [...]
Condom commercial and other videos
Still loving these condom commercials. I’m running out of new ones, though, so I’m looking to start making my own video. I would love a little technical help on front end - anyone out there a video guru? I can probably work with you long distance - I just have some questions [...]
How to teach sex ed
Sometimes I moonlight as a research/professor in science and mathematics secondary education. It’s generally fun, and almost always more lucrative than teaching sex ed. Regrettably, I write this blog and work with parents more out of a sense of urgency at the state of sexuality education and the deep satisfaction I receive from [...]
On the incomplete sexual revolution and non-monogomy
I am, as you may remember, an editor for the Personal section of Blog Nosh Magazine. It’s great fun, mostly because I get to peruse old posts on great blogs and call it work. We take old posts that have fallen off the front page of other blogs and re-post them on Blog [...]
August…the dregs of summer…
Welcome to August. Here in Central Texas, August tends to be the hottest and driest part of the year. This is the time when the earth herself gets bleached white from the searing sun. There are only two places to be in August in Central Texas: inside or in the pool. [...]
Bittersweetness
This afternoon I was reading Steven Lewis’ collection of personal essays called Zen and the Art of Fatherhood. I came across this quote: Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. –Schopenhauer
This quote is particularly poignant to me today because I am thinking about my daughter [...]
