I had the pleasure of seeing Spring Awakening on Tuesday. I had never seen it, nor had I read a full plot description. So while I knew it was one of those things I needed to see, I didn’t have any preconceptions or really any details at all.
What I found in Spring Awakening was a [...]
Posts tagged sex education
Mama Who Bore Me
The seductive allure of the music…
Tonight I am preparing for a class tomorrow morning on gender. I start all my college classes with a song that is relevant to the topic, and my dear partner and I were playing around with music for tomorrow, including The Kink’s Lola, Vitamin C’s Girls Against Boys, Beyonce’s If I Were a Boy, and [...]
Sexting, take two
Yesterday I wrote about sexting, in the original, text-based sense. Today I get into those terribly troubled waters when teenagers send sexual images - either stills or video - of themselves.
I’m hesitant to write about this topic, which is perhaps telling in and of itself. I write about a lot of controversial issues [...]
Buying condoms? In middle school?
Last weekend I took 10 middle school students to buy condoms.
None of the students wanted to come to class, which was unusual for them. Their parents pushed them, made them come. The students told me and my co-teacher: No way. We’re not going to buy condoms. The students asked me what they should say if [...]
We’re living in a changing landscape…
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 [...]
When maybe means…?
Last March I wrote a post about preventing rape through sex education. It just got a new comment, so I went back and read my way through it again.
I recently used the story I described in that post of a date rape told from two very different perspectives in a college classroom. We had a [...]
Dear President-elect Obama
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 [...]
On Trust (and what it means about innocence and knowledge)
This morning I was thinking about trust. About who has it, and who doesn’t. And what that means about innocence and knowledge.
Because I occasionally find myself in front of a group of young teenagers talking about this most intimate topic, promising I won’t tell their parents what they say, teenagers often confide in me or [...]
Preventing HIV
RH Reality Check is a great organization that serves individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. One way RH Reality Check does it’s great work is through a series of videos called Our Reality Video Series.
For the moment, here is an interview with two women living with HIV. They [...]
Why sex education? Why now?
What do your kids know about sex?
It’s often hard to say, particularly around those middle school years and the first years of high school. Much before that, and as a parent you can assume that they’ve learned everything they know either from you, their school, or some other place that you’re aware of. Towards the [...]
