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Comprehensive Sex Education as Violence Prevention

May 27, 2020

Guest Blog Post by Rebekah L. Rollston It’s #SexEdForAll month, yet most people still believe sex education is just about sex. But it’s so much more than that. As a young woman from rural Appalachia, I’m well aware that until people learn what sex education truly is, it won’t be widely accepted in our society.…

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What Pandemics Can Teach Us about Food and Eating, and Sexual Activity, Too

May 21, 2020

My first days living during the declared coronavirus public health emergency were spent in terror—not wanting to leave my house or even open its doors. That frame of thought quickly led to a principal activity of daily living consideration—how was I going to go about eating. Questions that bubbled up included Do I have enough…

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Healthy Teen Network Chosen as a Finalist for the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge

February 28, 2020

By Milagros Garrido and Genevieve Martínez-García Update, March 16, 2020: What’s Happening with the Alexa Challenge? We were so excited to have been selected as a finalist for the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge, but with the coronavirus pandemic and the need for social distancing, SXSW Edu has been postponed. Organizers are still exploring options for… Read more

#SRAisAbstinenceOnly: New Name, Same Shame

June 13, 2019

We’ve joined with Advocates for Youth, Answer, SIECUS,  Planned Parenthood, and many others to spread the word that abstinence-only has been repackaged under a new name, “Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA).” But don’t be fooled by their deceitful appropriation of new rights language, it’s the same old shaming, inaccurate lectures. These lessons do nothing but harm…

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This Earth Day, Consider a Green Sex Ed

April 22, 2019

I have long maintained that sex education in the United States is too science-centric, too focused on “plumbing” and pathology. So, environmentalist sex education may seem like a curious thing for which to advocate. But let me explain. I come from a part of the country where entire communities were built from the exploitation of…

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