Disclaimer: I am not a professional! If you want to find a professional sex educator please look at my "Resources" page. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on my ask site: FYsexeducationquestions, though check out my FAQ first!
(via becauseiamawoman)
autumn-and-eve (via indigocrayon)
This, almost 100%, however Gender is considered a ‘Social Construct’, it doesn’t make it any less real. Just because ‘Money’ is a Social Construct, it doesn’t make wealthy or poverty any less real. We would never go to a poor person and inform them to just forget about the existence of money, simply because ‘it’s in the mind’.
Just because we as a society might place more or less weight on something, never invalidates it’s existence. Things of value (gold, platinum, etc) whose worth is represented by paper money derive that worth not just arbitrarily, but the sheer volume of effort that has went into procuring them and how we choose to value their uniqueness.
The same goes for gender, we should value that choice, that uniqueness, the sheer volume of effort that every human being goes through in relationship to gender. This goes even more so for trans* and gender variant people.
(via sexreeducated)(via holisticsexualhealth)
From an interview with Chris Bobel about her book New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. Cited by Lester Andrist in Sociological Cinema. Read the rest of Andrist’s article, which focuses on the portrayal of menstruation as a comical point of disgust in the film Superbad and as shameful in the film Carrie. (via zeezeescorner)
FYSE Edit: One note, is that actually birth control that enables you to skip periods aren’t dangerous in any way. The only reason why birth control was made for a week period was to keep you an a cycle your body was used to. It’s not necessary since you don’t ovulate and don’t build up the uterine lining that is shed during menstruation. There are also people that don’t like their periods, I’m one of them. My periods are painful and awful and they remind me that I can procreate and that my body is seen as female. It’s fine to not want to be reminded that you have a period but we need to be able to talk about bodily functions and be able to learn about them.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
From an interview with Chris Bobel about her book New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. Cited by Lester Andrist in Sociological Cinema. Read the rest of Andrist’s article, which focuses on the portrayal of menstruation as a comical point of disgust in the film Superbad and as shameful in the film Carrie. (via zeezeescorner)
FYSE: One note, is that actually birth control that enables you to skip periods aren’t dangerous in any way. The only reason why birth control was made for a week period was to keep you an a cycle your body was used to. It’s not necessary since you don’t ovulate and don’t build up the uterine lining that is shed during menstruation. There are also people that don’t like their periods, I’m one of them. My periods are painful and awful and they remind me that I can procreate and that my body is seen as female. It’s fine to not want to be reminded that you have a period but we need to be able to talk about bodily functions and be able to learn about them.
(via becauseiamawoman)
(via becauseiamawoman)
“Women’s scientific achievements often overlooked and undervalued”
This is a problem. The authors of the study don’t argue that there’s a sexist conspiracy to prevent the ascent of women, and I wouldn’t either. But the findings mean that we have to take into account the bias that undoubtedly exists in our society, and which scientists aren’t immune from.
(via sciencecenter)
(via becauseiamawoman)
African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Lower Grades And Harsher Punishment In School
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the Washington, D.C. area are suspended or expelled two to five times more often than White children. It’s a national trend that needs to be addressed.”
I’ve seen first hand this kind of prejudice in the education system, which is one of the reasons why I’m so passionate about education. No child should be treated like they are inferior to another. Not only does this affect their education, but also their entire lives into adulthood.
Do Teen Sleepovers Prevent Pregnancy?
Sociologist Dr. Amy Schalet discusses how teen sleepovers prevent pregnancy and, more importantly, how opening dialogue between parents and teens about sex and relationships will help improve sexual decision-making. She is the author of the book “Not Under My Roof”. Follow the link to watch the interview.
(Source: thesocietypages.org, via )
But as the ‘war’ is construed more widely, it becomes more difficult to argue thecase for accepting the trade-off that this position seems to imply: if the ‘war’ is taken to be the struggle for widespread public acceptance that people’s sexual orientations lie on a spectrum, and that social institutions should operate to support people in the expression of these orientations, whatever these may be, then the Civil Partnerships Act may represent a retreat (because it can be seen as serving to further embed discrimination between gay and heterosexual people)."
Trade-offs in the gay rights movement
great article on how the efforts to portray sexual orientation as pre-determined and fixed has negative effects when trying to fight for human rights on political grounds
(via tooyoungforthelivingdead)
(via tooyoungforthelivingdead)
Article - "Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschool"
Karin A. Martin
Many feminist scholars argue that the seeming naturalness of gender differences, particularly bodily difference, underlies gender inequality. Yet few researchers ask how these bodily differences are constructed. Through semi-structured observation in five preschool classrooms, I examine one way that everyday movements, comportment, and use of physical space become gendered. I find that the hidden school curriculum that controls children’s bodily practices in order to shape them cognitively serves another purpose as well. This hidden curriculum also turns children who are similar in bodily comportment, movement, and practice into girls and boys-children whose bodily practices differ. I identify five sets of practices that create these differences: dressing up, permitting relaxed behaviors or requiring formal behaviors, controlling voices, verbal and physical instructions regarding children’s bodies by teachers, and physical interactions among children. This hidden curriculum that (partially) creates bodily differences between the genders also makes these physical differences appear and feel natural.
Interesting article that details the ways in which preschool teachers instill an ethic of “boys will be boys” and female submissiveness.
(via genderqueer)
