The awkwardness in these stories practically leaps off the page.
sex ed
For those of you who don't know Alice Dreger here's a bit of background.
Alice Dreger is an acclaimed author and professor at Northwestern University's medical school. She wrote Galileo's Middle Finger, a bioethical book discussing her "activism against surgical 'correction' of intersex individuals' genitalia." She's also given a TED talk on human anatomy and why we let it define who we are. In short, Dreger knows her stuff.
Via Twenty Two Words
Via Twenty Two Words:
A Mississippi law passed in 2012 restricted teachers from teaching condom use in sex ed classes. In response, educator and education reform advocate Sanford Johnsondeveloped a simple (and pretty funny) workaround.
Via R1pp3D
This was supposedly submitted by an actual 14-year-old student during a sex education lesson. Not sure if this bodes well or terrible for our young ones...
Reddit user iheartdna teaches sex ed for kids in "two different large public high schools, both very high-income, upper-middle-class areas of Virginia and California." Below are three years of some of the best anonymous questions her students have wrote in. Ah, the awkward adolescent memories...
