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Thank you, thank you, thank you so much! Just under the clock, exactly 150 donors, and about twice that many other helpers, got us across the finish line and past our minimum goal of $10,000 for our Halloween annual fundraiser. We're so grateful for your contributions that help us continue providing progressive, comprehensive, inclusive and scare-free...
This Sunday, our team and our supporters will be hitting the virtual pavement to enjoy some Halloween fun and ask folks if they'd skip the tricks and make the treat a donation to Scarleteen. We're aiming to raise $10,000 in our annual big ask by 11/5 this year, money we use to create and provide things like: the...
I've been alive long-enough to watch the Western cultural progression from having nothing but "androgynous" -- a category which was always very limited, particularly in the presentation it demanded, one which simply wasn't attainable for nearly anyone who wasn't white and very thin -- to terms and frameworks that came out of the late 1980s...
Scarleteen came from self-taught, DIY sex educators making everything we did on our own, without help or support from existing sex ed structures, organizations or even many resources to work with. What help and mentorship we had came from other self-taught educators. Truth be told, some of the rare existing sex ed organizations there...
As you probably already know, there is a wave of horrible legislation that's been moving through the United States with the aim of banning trans youth and trans folks of all ages from accessing everything from sports to life saving, gender affirming care. To all the trans and nonbinary young people out there: you deserve...
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It feels a fitting start to open this by telling you that in the most 2020 way possible, we -- including me, the founder of this place, who first launched it frozen in my basement apartment with the entirely unuseful radiator in the ceiling -- forgot our 22nd anniversary earlier this month. I managed to remember my own 50th...
Our team loves Halloween. We don't require anyone who works or volunteers here to have an abiding love of silly spookiness, but most of us here at Scarleteen live for this holiday. For one of us (unsurprisingly, the one of us who creates elaborate costumes every year with their dog), this is the only holiday...
Scarleteen turns 20 years old today. Twenty. For two decades, we’ve delivered our unique and innovative brand of sex education, despite many financial, legal, political and practical barriers and battles. That kind of tenure for anything on the internet is unheard of, let alone for a grassroots, feminist sexual health, sex and healthy relationships initiative...
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Real-deal consent requires clear, open and honest communication. And if we're going ahead and actually being sexual together in some way, that also means an ongoing, nuanced and pretty highly situational process of communication, not just one or two super-quick, super-basic exchanges. Not only is communication as a process essential to keeping it consensual, it's a...
When the first reviews for Beyond Birds & Bees started popping up, a common theme within them was that this book should be in the hands of every parent. As someone who writes about the ways parents and other supportive adults can be a positive force in the lives of young people when it...