check out what i posted today on Akimbo:

Call Your Senator Today and Support Comprehensive Sexuality Education

by Chelsea Ricker on October 28, 2009

in Comprehensive Sexuality Education


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so here's the thing: i read a lot of anti-feminist, anti-sexual rights, virulently conservative press (masochism?  a desperate need to know what they're up to?  self-preservation?  who knows).  And, thus, i read a lot about how feminists are shrill, humourless harpies who find no fun in anything related to sex (despite being promiscious-slut-whore- ( Read more... )

original here: http://blog.iwhc.org/2009/04/good-news-from-senegal-buoys-push-for-decriminalization-of-homosexuality/

Good News from Senegal Buoys Push for Decriminalization of Homosexuality

On Monday, the Court of Appeals in Dakar, Senegal, took an encouraging but surprising decision to overturn the convictions of “same-sex” conduct for nine men ( Read more... )

The United States today endorsed the UN General Assembly statement from last December on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.  This is a massive step forward for the US, and I for one could not be happier that the new administration has decided to join the other 66 UN member states willing to condemn human rights violations based ( Read more... )

read the original on IWHC's new blog.

At a side event for the Commission on the Status of Women today, I was once again saddened and frustrated by the disconnect between reality and theory that seems to exist for the abstinence-only crowd. They’ve co-opted the language of comprehensive sexuality education and are quickly learning to distort it. ( Read more... )

Today begins the 53rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.   I've spent a lot of the last week at a training that we held for young advocates from Africa, Asia and Latin America (we had a couple from the US this year too, as part of a collaboration with the Girl Scouts), where we took them through some basic UN structures and documents ( Read more... )

first thing obama does?  put a hold on all pending executive orders from the bush administration (including the conscience clause).

first thing clinton does?  get rid of mark dybul, the pepfar administrator largely responsible for the emphasis on abstinence and funding of conservative religious groups.

read the links for much more thoughtful ( Read more... )

In the January issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (woot), there’s a new study from Janet Rosenbaum of Johns Hopkins University on the effects of virginity pledges on sexual behaviour.  What effects do virginity pledges have on sexual behaviour, one might wonder?  The answer, which would seem inherently logical to ( Read more... )

a few thoughts on the Rick Warren thing, which is of course receiving tons of coverage on better blogs.  pandagon is compiling responses from LGBTQ organizations, but i want to pick up on the theme from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Obama campaigned on the idea of finding common ground.  he's using that to justify this pick -- saying ( Read more... )

otherwise known as why i love christopher benz.