A common query UN|HUSHED receives is about our reasons behind using an evidence-informed approach instead of an evidence-based approach to write our curricula. While many types of curricula are valid and have their place in sexuality education, there are specific reasons why UN|HUSHED prefers to write our curricula using an […]
Hey Friends,Happy Monday! We hope your first month of 2020 was a good one. As per the ushe, we’ve been super busy, and we want to tell you all about it. Thanks for following along! We’ll be back in touch next month to say hi, and share more exciting news. […]
This year we will be shining a spotlight on our contractors and volunteers and their work with UN|HUSHED – and we are thrilled to begin with Rayka Kumru! What initially drew you to working with UN|HUSHED? “In all honesty, the possibility of working with and learning from Karen Rayne, UN|HUSHED’s […]
Well hey there, Happy New Year! We hope you had a fun and safe end to 2019 and an equally awesome start to your 2020. Our team is happy to be back at work and making plans for a super productive year ahead.
Here at UN|HUSHED we’ve had a very busy 2019. So busy we didn’t have time to write much in our blog to tell you all about it. Funny how that works isn’t it? So let’s dive in to what we’ve done and what we’re doing… What’s coming in 2020… We’ll […]
This week we are SO THRILLED to announce that our brand new high school curriculum is up and available for purchase and use! UN|HUSHED: The High School Curriculum, by Karen Rayne, PhD and Kirsten deFur, MPH is available exclusively through our online portal, accessible when you are logged into your account. This […]
You have probably heard all kinds of trite relationship advice over life because it’s a staple of conversations about relationships. You may even give trite relationship advice sometimes, because sometimes it’s useful. But it’s important to see the advice for what it is and consider whether what you’re repeating makes […]
The metaphor that we use over here at UN|HUSHED for healthy relationships are the four columns of Respect, Equality, Safety, and Trust. Thinking about these four elements as columns that hold up a relationship and make it strong, sturdy, and reliable makes for a pretty good graphic. It makes intuitive […]
Teenagers are creative, visionary, engaged. They are immersed in the passion of discovery of life. They have a driving need to understand life in a way that is real and visceral. They want to find the wrongs and right them. Teenagers are like a mirror, reflecting adults and our culture, […]
#SexEdSaturday is a series where Jessica Smarr answers anonymous questions received in Unhushed classes. As a teenager, I had at least five turtleneck sweaters, one very embarrassing CD collection, and exactly two sweaty, smelly feet. I mean, they were bad. So bad, in fact, that they once stunk up an […]
