news roundup

Welp. We survived the first month of 2021. Hooray? Unfortunately, it didn't go as smoothly as many of us had hoped, as our outgoing president encouraged white supremacists to attempt an overthrow of the government. To be quite honest, I was nervous as hell on Inauguration Day, holding my breath in the expectation of further outbreaks of violence and hate. Still, some things … [Read more...] about Full Disclosure: Sex Ed in the News | Jan. 2021

As I write this, people across the world are preparing to say sayonara to 2020, many of them deliriously excited and relieved, thinking of the past year as a literal dumpster fire they can watch burn down to so much ash and blow away on the cold winter breeze. Reset: 2021. Am I right? But many others of us know — or are just beginning to comprehend — that the events of 2020 … [Read more...] about Full Disclosure: Sex Ed in the News | Dec. 2020

These past few years have seen educators on edge even more so than usual. Despite research showing that abstinence-only until marriage programs do not, in fact, cut down on incidences of STIs and unplanned pregnancies, federal funding had started to flow more readily to those programs during the Trump administration. Meanwhile, organizations offering comprehensive sex education … [Read more...] about Full Disclosure: Sex Ed in the News | Nov. 2020

As I write this, it's just two days after the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and, I won't lie, it feels like a gut punch. Barrett has such a troubling history. She served for nearly three years on the board of a group of private Christian schools that barred admission to children of same-sex parents and that "made it plain that openly gay and lesbian … [Read more...] about Full Disclosure: Sex Ed in the News | Oct. 2020

Back in the day, when I was doing volunteer work for the Center for Sex Ed, I put together weekly news roundups for their blog. And while there was sometimes good news — a piece of progressive legislation pushed through, at long last — more often, it was rage-inducing. Stories of rights being stripped away. Stories of sex ed curricula being made even more restrictive. Stories … [Read more...] about Full Disclosure: Sex Ed in the News | Sept. 2020