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5 Tips for Your Sexual Health During COVID-19
April 23, 2020
You may be a young person or adult experiencing these thoughts. Or you are the partner, parent, or caregiver of someone feeling this way. How do you support yourself or loved ones with this? COVID-19 may be making all sorts of relationships challenging, but particularly our sexual relationships. Here are five resources (for both young… Read more
How the Healthy Teen Network Design Challenge Inspired a Dating App Idea
February 13, 2020
By Tiffany Tibbs Christensen, Taylor Herrigan, Ashley Stewart, and Camille Smith What is the Healthy Teen Network Design Challenge? The Healthy Teen Network Design Challenge is a 3-day deep dive into human-centered design. The challenge provides a unique opportunity to meet with health professionals from around the country and unleash your collaborative, creative energy on…
Read moreInclusive Sex-Positivity
July 11, 2019
Guest Blog Post by Capri Fiello Sex-positivity, which the Feminist Majority Foundation defines as “celebrating healthy sexual relationships, diversity within those relationships, bodily autonomy, and empowering individuals to control their own sex life (or lack thereof),” is incredibly important in supporting adolescents’ sexual development. When sex-positivity is both inclusive and comprehensive, it shifts the paradigm…
Read moreInfluencers are leading the online sex ed revolution!
March 13, 2020
Sex education is everywhere—in schools, in clinics, in places of faith, and of course on your screen. Sex ed in digital spaces has grown tremendously over the last ten years thanks to the easy access to production tools (for content developers) and mobile devices and WiFi connectivity (for consumers), but also due to the lack…
Read moreIt’s time for sexual health to get a little bit kinky.
February 7, 2020
Washington, DC’s premier leather, kink, and fetish event known as “Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend (MAL)” concluded last Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend with plenty of parties, pageants, and “pup play.” I was a first-time visitor to the annual event that brings together leather, kink, and fetish enthusiasts from around the region and the globe to… Read more
Let’s Get Comfortable…the Sex Positive Revolution Is Here to Stay
December 13, 2018
This past conference, we launched the #HealthyTeen18 Design Challenge, which focused on how we can flip the script and start thinking—and talking—about pleasure, sexuality, and positive sexual experiences in sex ed (more on why we chose that in this previous post). In order to take the conversation further, we decided to make sex positivity the…
Read moreMelanin Poppin’: Colorblind Politics Plaguing Sexuality Education
July 30, 2019
Get to know the #HealthyTeen19 Featured Speakers: On Tuesday, October 29th, keynote speaker Dr. Donna Oriowo will remind us that when it comes to sex ed, the one size fits all technique is about as old as a black and white television in a world where melanin is poppin’ and wants to be seen in its full color.…
Read moreSex-Positivity: It’s Super Simple
July 23, 2019
Get to know the #HealthyTeen19 Featured Speakers: Erin Basler and Kira Manser are kicking off the conference on Monday, October 28th at 4:00 PM with their session, “Sex-Positivity: It’s Super Simple.” This session will get us into the “sex-positive mindset” by building a group definition of sex-positivity that considers all identities and looks critically at our…
Read moreThe Algorithm Police: Are Social Media Policies Biased?
February 20, 2020
We frequently get caught up in assessing the negative effects of social media for young people, particularly when it comes to their sexuality. Yet it is also common to hear from research and LGBTQ+ folx the importance of the internet for developing identity, community, and self-exploration. As Amber Leventry describes in “The importance of social…
Read moreThe Church and State: What I Can Do Now to Promote Sex+
August 5, 2019
Get to know the #HealthyTeen19 Featured Speakers: For the closing session of the 2019 conference on Wednesday, October 30, facilitator Jennifer Driver, and panelists Tanya Bass, Brittany Broaddus-Smith, and Shawn Kelly will challenge you on how you can work together with groups who are consistently left out of the sex-positive discussion. Policymakers, schools, and faith communities are…
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