🎧 LISTEN TO: How to Help Transform U.S. Sex Education (& Why It's So Important) with Jaclyn Friedman
Hi Privates!
I was so excited to welcome my old pal Jaclyn Friedman back to the show (she was first a guest in the Reality Bytes days) to talk about sex ed in the U.S. — and why it's vital that we do better.
I’m a big fan of Jaclyn’s work. She’s a long-time feminist activist. She's also the author of Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All and What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety.
Jaclyn has recently founded an organization called EducateUS: SIECUS In Action, and she’s on a mission to transform public school sex education in the United States. In this episode, she shares how we can do that via voting, running for office on the school board level, and getting involved with her organization.
We also cover the wide-reaching impact of good sex ed, how the culture wars are drawing attention to work in this space, the insidious, politically co-opted language of "grooming" and how it affects childhood sexual assault survivors, and more.
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🎧 Here’s a playlist of our previous abortion-related episodes, including the “Men Have Abortions Too” series.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday weekend!
xo
Cokes
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