Today was a very emotional day in my college class. The topic was sexual orientation, which is generally a fun, thoughtful day where we pick apart the differences in ways of defining and understanding sexual attraction. Today I raced us through that part of the class so I could devote a substantial portion to a [...]
Archives for October, 2010
I might have saved someone’s life today. So can you.
But the thing is, you might not ever know it.
Young people kill themselves because of harassment, torment, bullying, and immense internal pain. You can be the person who stands between them and suicide, but you might never know it. Ideally, none of us would ever know because the someone we’ve influenced has a happy life, [...]
How I have failed you and your children
Every time a young person ends up having sex they feel ambiguous about because they haven’t learned how to say no, I have failed. Every time a young person contracts HIV due to lack of knowledge, I have failed. Every time a young person is bullied or ostracised because he or she is gay, [...]
