The Politics of Sex-Ed and Kylie Jenner's 21st

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Let's talk about sex, baby! Well... sex education. This month, Majka and Yaz discuss the politics of sex-ed around the globe as well as the party of the year - King Kylie's 21st bash.

Reading

Run by Ann Patchett

In Her Day by Rita Mae Brown

Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Watching

To All the Boys I Loved Before (Netflix)

Queer Eye (Netflix) (Majka just watched the episode 'To Gay or Not To Gay' and cried so go watch that)

X Company (At least on Canadian Netflix)

Good Bye, Lenin!

Listening

Voicenotes by Charlie Puth

NYTimes Article

Marauder by Interpol

Politics

Swedish call for a new word for 'vagina' goes viral: https://www.thelocal.se/20170128/swedish-call-for-a-female-word-for-willy-goes-viral

NGO sex ed around the world: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/may/20/six-best-sex-education-programmes-around-the-world

Canada:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/07/12/scrapping-the-new-sex-ed-curriculum-a-giant-leap-backwards-experts-say.html

USA:

https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426905/

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/for-educators/whats-state-sex-education-us

Australia:

https://www.afao.org.au/article/sexuality-education-australian-secondary-schools-averting-sexual-health-crisis-among-young-people/

Ireland:

http://www.thejournal.ie/lgbtq-groups-demand-taoiseach-progress-sex-ed-bill-to-next-stage-before-pride-4094764-Jun2018/

http://www.thejournal.ie/fianna-fail-sex-education-bill-3965868-Apr2018/

http://www.thejournal.ie/teenage-pregnancies-ireland-stis-3419273-May2017/

Sex-ed on YouTube

Sexplanations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxMlA7rt-mnIc1AjbyAsPw

Hannah Witton: https://www.youtube.com/user/hannahgirasol/about