Black Lives Matter. Here’s What We’re Doing to Make our Classes and our Organization Actively Antiracist

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Black Lives Matter. Here’s What We’re Doing to Make our Classes and our Organization Actively Antiracist

Wow. What times we are living in. Our hearts are with you, whatever you are grieving or fearing; whatever you are celebrating, if not the way you had hoped. We’re wishing you all a happy pride month; rest assured it doesn’t take a big glittery rainbow parade for us to be proud of all our beautiful LGBTQ siblings and all of their courage, resilience, and joy. We are especially proud of all those activists and organizers centering the movement for Black lives in this year’s pride celebrations: none of us are free until all of us are free.

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Intersections of Sexuality and a Viral Pandemic

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Intersections of Sexuality and a Viral Pandemic

Today marks our company’s first cancelled sex-ed classes of the Coronavirus outbreak.

We are working to figure out, along with our client schools and the rest of Los Angeles, what we can do to help prevent the spread of illness and care for our communities—below are a few early thoughts; feel free to share yours.

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Auntie Lou is a cheek pincher. Nobody wants to sit next to her at Thanksgiving.→

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Auntie Lou is a cheek pincher. Nobody wants to sit next to her at Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is coming! Grammy, Grandpop! Aunties, Uncles, Cousins! Yay! We love those big, boisterous family and friend gatherings! Hugs and all the feels throughout the winter holiday season! Yay! Right? Of course we want our kids to have warm and loving relationships in our circle of friends and family. Of course we want Auntie Lou and all our venerable elders to feel honored and respected at these important get-togethers. But,

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Program Director Emmalinda MacLean says: Come to My Birthday Party!

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Program Director Emmalinda MacLean says: Come to My Birthday Party!

I’m turning 32 tomorrow, and all I want for my birthday is for children to learn about consent and bodily autonomy.  You can help make my birthday wish come true by clicking on the link here and purchasing this beautiful and empowering read-aloud for a child in your life, or a school in our community! 

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Why YOU need Sexual Health Education Training!→

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Why YOU need Sexual Health Education Training!

Our culture is flooded with messages about sex, bodies, gender roles, relationships, and power: children are absorbing them from an early age. Without a trusted source of accurate information, these messages become many people’s only sex education. What messages are your clients receiving? Which ones are you sending?

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Bright Spots & Shining Spirits: the kids are alright

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Bright Spots & Shining Spirits: the kids are alright

As we look towards a bright future and a hope-filled new year, I want to share with you some “detail shots” looking back on this year’s classes, and the wonderful students we have the joy of working with.  Curious, courageous, compassionate young people like these give me all of the hope for the future.

 Let me start with a scene I’m grateful to have witnessed many times over:

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"Everybody, Every Body": More Than Sex-Ed Publishes Our First Book!

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"Everybody, Every Body": More Than Sex-Ed Publishes Our First Book!

More than Sex-Ed is proud to say we are publishing a perfect read-aloud book for children and their favorite adults. With your help we can get this book out in the new year!

“Everybody, Every Body” is a colorful picture book that explores what it means to live in a body, and celebrates—in a child-friendly way—the range of wonderful feelings and experiences our bodies can give us.  It also gently nudges adult readers to support their child’s developing sense of bodily autonomy, consent, and the right to personal space. 

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More Than Sex-Ed in Schools Across Los Angeles—De Toledo High School

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More Than Sex-Ed in Schools Across Los Angeles—De Toledo High School

We are thrilled to work with a variety of schools!
They may be charter, pilot, or independent schools, but one consistent feature is that each has administrators and teachers who profoundly recognize the value of well facilitated conversations with students about personal relationships and sexual health.

Meet De Toledo High School in West Hills!

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"It's Sex Ed!?! And MY Kids?!?"

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"It's Sex Ed!?! And MY Kids?!?"

Right now there’s a bunch of misinformation traveling through Californian parenting circles about what our state actually requires regarding sex-ed in schools.

 We get it. What other topic causes this kind of gnarly gut twisting parental discomfort?

But at More Than Sex-Ed we take our mission to support parents and guardians in their role as primary sexuality educators for their children very seriously. We recognize the widely varying perspectives parents have regarding sexuality and values.

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When Parents Don't See Eye-to-Eye About Sex-Ed

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When Parents Don't See Eye-to-Eye About Sex-Ed

Co-parents don’t always agree on what is age appropriate for their child. This can be particularly delicate when the topic of age-appropriate sex education comes up. In my experience as a sex educator, the “how young is too young?” type of question is often the first question parents have about their children's sexual education.

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