There are many places where the law and sex education intersect, and they can be broken down into several categories. Certainly there is some overlap among them, but for the purpose of this post, the categories are: state law and policy on sex education, laws affecting sex educators in the […]
Yesterday my 19 year old asked if I knew anything about April 24th – tomorrow – being national rape day. After googling, and talking with her, I was trying to figure out what to say. She suggested: Don’t make national rape day a thing thank u in advance Let’s start […]
The Answer is No: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and Our Evolving Understanding of Consent Put down the milk and cookies and gird your loins, guys, gals, and non-binary pals. The War on Christmas is here again. Starbucks released their holiday cups, alleged serial sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is on Twitter […]
On March 24th, I published a post on teaching sex ed online…during a pandemic. Since then, I have spent hundreds of hours learning about online tools and online facilitation. I have also provided more than 70 hours of online training with many more planned. Suffice to say, I’ve learned a […]
Are you about to teach comprehensive sexuality education online for middle or high school students for the first time ever? You’re not alone. Many people are prepping without any substantial information, experience, or even research on how to do it! Below are ten tips from UN|HUSHED on how to present […]
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… JANUARY We kicked off the […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was reviewing my lesson plan and prepping my supplies on Sunday night when I first saw people posting #metoo on Facebook and Twitter in response to Alyssa Milano’s tweet:
Yesterday in my middle school class we talked about sexual harassment. The students had a general notion of these as bad things, but little in the way of details. The problem is generally that people misconstrue sexual harassment with sexual assault. They don’t realize that harassment can be verbal, can […]
