There’s been a huge amount of talk about adolescent sexting recently. It seems to have suddenly become popular enough - or at least its popularity seems to have sunk into adult awareness enough - to be everywhere all of a sudden. Parents and interviewers have in the past couple of weeks come out of the [...]
Archives for March, 2010
What they need to know about gay
Through a round-about series of events I ended up having a late Saturday night dinner with a lovely woman from a local non-profit who teaches sex and health educators how to teach their content effectively. We spoke specifically about how - and what - to teach young people about sexual orientation. It’s gotten me thinking [...]
Negotiating the Parent/Teen Divide Over Social Media
On Tuesday afternoon I moderated a panel of two teenagers and two parents at SXSW Interactive about how parents and teenagers interact around social media (Facebook, MySpace, etc.). It was a pretty awesome panel, if I do say so myself. You can read @shelbyknox’s live tweets along with the full conversation from all attendees. Here [...]
Hello, and welcome to my blog!
I am delighted to be at SXSW Interactive this weekend, talking with people about everything from sexting to sex ed to teens online. It’s been an utter delight so far, and I’m sure the rest of the time will be fabulous as well!
I am moderating a panel here at SX called Negotiating the Parent/Teen Over [...]
Thinking about what it means to be transgender
Yesterday in my college classes, we talked about gender. I went to some pains to make sure that our conversation about gender was not confused with a conversation about sex - which refers to the anatomic gender that is generally assigned at birth. Most toddlers are well aware of their sex by about 18 months [...]
