This is for the youth, who deserve the truth. Local Problem: Tennessee doesn't require medically-accurate sex education in public schools. National Problem: The sex education curriculums in the US tend to focus on singular issues of reproduction or pleasure, without interpolating the sites of control that sex is. Sexuality Education needs to adopt the pedagogy of sexual liberation. We need a curriculum that integrates prevention with power, centering both structure and agency, choice and context, and demands that all bodies are afforded this education as an natural right. Sex Educators of the World UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your grants.... ✪ Primary Assumptions: Sexual health is inseparable from liberation struggles. Public health can be a tool of state violence. The goal is not only to protect bodies but to dismantle systems that control them. Resistance must be collective, creative, and unapologetically political. Core Principles: ...
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