HuffPost spoke to sex educators about how to talk to kids about sexual abuse from infancy to the teen years, and how to recognize and respond to troubling situations if they arise.
In this episode of Sex Positive Families the Podcast, we discuss the importance of providing early, ongoing sexuality education to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A website that celebrates the intricacies of bodies and fertility, providing accessible information about fertility, menstrual cycles, and showcases photographs documenting changes in the cervix and cervical fluid throughout the cycle
by Pop’n’Olly, this animated video thoughtfully explores what being intersex means.
by Kyl Myers. In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. […]
A board game about menstruation. It strives to turn a typically uneasy situation into a fun, positive, learning experience. The game teaches participants about what is happening within the body and how to “go with the flow.”
by Craig Pomranz. An early book about the power of diversity, the importance of self-acceptance and family support when a child is navigating their way through limiting gender messages and stereotypes.
In this episode of Sex Positive Families the Podcast, we explore how to foster a shame-free understanding of pleasure in the early years of a child’s life.
The Talk Podcast showcases conversations with parents and experts about the possibility of creating a new kind of communicative environment between parents and children, by making tough topics part of natural, constant, and candid dialogue, and where no subject is off limits. This episode features insights from Dr. Shakina Nayfack, sexuality educator Julia Feldman, and […]
by McKinley Hunter Manasco. The rules of physical contact can be tricky to grasp and children with special needs are at a heightened risk of abuse. This friendly picture book explains in simple terms how to tell the difference between acceptable and inappropriate touch, thereby helping the child with special needs stay safe.
Welcome to Roo High School, where no question is off-limits. Watch MyLifeAsEva, Aaron Philip, James Butler, and sex ed chatbot Roo answer questions about gender identity, sexual orientation, bisexuality, and coming out.
by Melinda Mangin. Transgender Students in Elementary School offers guidance to educators who want to provide a supportive school culture and climate for transgender and gender-expansive students. The book provides recommendations for creating learning environments that facilitate all students’ sense of belonging and reduce the constraints inherent in binary gender norms.