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Speaking Out: A Rainbow of Reasons We Need Diverse Books

June 24, 2014 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

June 26, 2015 Update Photo essayist/youth archivist Rachelle Lee Smith of visual literacy book Speaking Out will be in town signing copies at Reach and Teach San Mateo tonight 7-9pm. Apropos on this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #WeNeedDiverseBooks, anti-bullying, Craig Wiesner, diversity, Erase-Hate, gay pride, gay rights, Gender, human rights, identity, It Gets Better, kidlit, LGBTQ, Operation Marriage, Pride parade, queer youth, Rachelle Lee Smith, Rainbow flag, reach and teach, Speaking Out Queer Youth in Focus, Start Empathy, stereotypes, str8 against h8, Straight Against Hate, Trevor Project, YA lit, youth identity

Family Diversity In Books: A Child’s View of DOMA

June 29, 2013 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Update: June 26, 2015It's official. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5 to 4 in favor of marriage equality (see Justice Kennedy's closing paragraph summation which poignantly concludes, "it is so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: AAP LGBT families, All Children Matter, Bert and Ernie New Yorker, children's books, DOMA, Family diversity, freedom to marry, gay characters on TV, gay parents, Glaad, human rights, kidlit, LBGT, LGBTQ, marriage equality, media mindfulness, Openly YA tour, Operation Marriage, picture books, repeal of DOMA, respect for marriage act, School Library Journal, YA lit

Youth Aids Day: First Gen Who’ve Never Known a World Without HIV

April 10, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 25, 2015 Update World Aids Day is coming up Dec. 1st, and Durex is promoting the creation of a "condom emoji" to be used via social media to shorthand safety messages for public health. April … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, AIDS, AIDS Awareness, AIDS-free generation, Campaign to End AIDS, comprehensive sex ed, First National Youth HIV AIDS Awareness Day, Get Yourself Tested, GYT, HIV, HIV positive, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Kaiser educational theater, Kaiser Permanente sex ed, LGBTQ, NYHAAD, Red Pump Project, reproductive rights, Secrets, Sex education, sex-education-teens, sexual assault, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, STDs, STDS/HIV-exposure, Victim blaming, youth, Youth Aids Day, Youth HIV testing, Youth public health, YTH.org

Glee Teen Sex: Facts & Opportunities Using CDC vs. Hollywood TV

November 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Nov. 20, 2011 Truth is, Hollywood is lying about teen sex. Big time. New CDC research points to numbers that might as well frame Hollywood shows as a public health statistical version of ‘The Lying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence, Advocates-for-youth, APA sexualization study, birth rates down, CDC October 2011, CDC Teen Sexual Health, compassion boom, comprehensive sex ed, First Times, Glee, Glee on Fox, Glee Season 3, health literacy, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Hollywood Health & Society, hyper-sexualizing, Kids health, Kids Prime Time TV, Kurt and Blaine, LGBTQ, media-literacy, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, Rachel and Finn, sex sells, sex-education-teens, sexed, SexTech, Sexual Teens, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, So Sexy So Soon, socio emotional health, STD-prevention, STDs, suspension of disbelief, teen dating violence, teen moms, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teenagers having sex now in minority, The First Time, the talk, Tips for talking about virginity and sex in teen dramas, virginity, youth sexual health