At sex ed colleague Kate McCombs’s urging, I began to brainstorm ways to apply the clear teaching principles articulated here to sex education. I’ve spent way more time in the university classroom, typically teaching folklore and/or gender studies classes, than I have in the sex ed classroom, so some of this will speculative. If nothing […]
October 2014
Letting Jealousy Be Your Guide
One of the things I love doing as a sex educator (and an educator in general) is discovering parallels between different modes of communication and models for seeing the world. Sometimes this leads to me pointing out funny reversals in sexism, and sometimes it takes the form of applying ideas from gender studies to folklore […]