While this is not a topic that is terribly related to adolescent sexuality, it is one that is receiving a lot of attention recently.
One week ago the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether sentencing a juvenile - someone under 18 years old - to life in prison without the possibility of parole is cruel and [...]

The Unitarian Universalist Church contacted me back in March to let me know about an up-coming advocacy event for comprehensive sexuality education.  After a number of e-mails, a delightful young woman agreed to write a post for me describing her experience with the training and the advocacy.  I hope you enjoy her story:
Hello! My name [...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how Toronto teenagers want more sex education.  They’re asking for it all over the place, apparently, given the number of excited newspapers and blogs who are going on at length about it.  And don’t get me wrong - I am so glad that adults are listening [...]

Bam.  My world just changed.  And so did the worlds of teenagers, preteens, and children across the country.
Instead of abstinence-only, Obama’s 2010 budget puts $173 million into teen pregnancy prevention money.  Now, while this is great (GREAT!) news, it’s not quite what I was hoping for.  Preventing unwanted pregnancies (teen or otherwise) is only a [...]

I have absented myself from blog reading of late.  Mostly it’s a time crunch thing, but I’ve realized that mostly I just need to cut down on the shear number of blogs I’ve been attempting - and failing - to read and just keep the really important ones.  But it’s hard.  Because there are, of [...]

Yesterday I wrote a letter to Obama talking about what I would like to see him do in his first 100 days in office.  You can write a letter too!  And I think you should. In fact, ask your kids if they want to write a letter too - most teenagers will be voting in [...]

This is from last night’s presidential debate:

[This post written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen]
We live in a world where more and more people are accepting of alternative lifestyles. Yet students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender still report very similar amounts of harassment and negative effects in school as they did in 1999. Recently, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education [...]

A particularly eloquent college student recently said to me something along the lines of, “I wish there was more sex education in schools, so there could be more safe, mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasms.”  Ah, youth and it’s optimism!
I recently read about a group of Alaskan teenagers and young adults who want to increase sex education.  This [...]

This weekend, John McCain announced that his running mate would be Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.  It seems there has been little talk of anything else since that announcement…particularly since the announcement that Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is 5 months pregnant.
There has been much written on the topic since the announcement, while I was away attending [...]