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SexEd Loves John Oliver!!!

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SexEd loves Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver. The super fandom started while watching John Oliver during his time on The Daily Show with Joh Stewart. Each and every one of his insightful, searing and challenging bits about the current state of a variety of social issues in the US has nearly brought tears of laughter (or relief for the coverage!) to my eyes.  However, I didn’t realize just how amazing John Oliver’s show has been for the topics that SexEd cares about and holds dear, until a very wise intern compiled the long list of sexual health-related shows that Mr. Oliver has spotlighted this past season. We need more people in the media to cover these issues with the rigor and care that John and others like the amazing Samantha Bee(!!) have done so bravely during their 2016 seasons.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Covers Sex Ed:

Sex Ed: 

A fabulously comprehensive video detailing the reasons we need good sexual education in the United States, and what’s stopping us from achieving the goal of universal, medically accurate sex education.
 
Catch up on the current abortion laws, which have caused many clinics to close down–denying accessible health care to thousands of patients.
 
Find out about the new laws the US has passed, which still allow discrimination against people who are part of the LGBTQ community. 
 
Oliver explains the laws States have passed to restrict transgender people from being themselves and discusses the bathroom laws. 
 
A sad piece that spotlights the fact that the US is one of the two first-world countries that don’t offer any paid maternity leave (the other country being Papua New Guinea); forcing many new moms to go back to work early and often make radical decisions about work to remain financially stable. 
 
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SexEd’s FIELDWORKS video is coming to MassArt!

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If you’re in Boston, check out our FIELDWORKS video at Mass Art!
Monday, April 11th at 6:30pm
MassArt Design and Media Center Lecture Hall
621 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.abladeofgrass.org/attend/fieldworks-massart/

Happy Valentine’s Day — our Wearing Consent curriculum is here!

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SexEd is thrilled to announce that our free Wearing Consent curriculum is available online!

Find out more and download it here.

Please tell us what you think. SexEd exists to foster a dialogue about sexual health education and culture, and we thank you for participating in this exchange. Send comments to admin@sexedproject.org, and we can add your feedback to the curriculum!

Join us Saturday Feb. 13 for an exhibition, performance, and the launch of our Wearing Consent curriculum!

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SexEd Presents: Wearing Consent

An exhibition opening, performance, and curriculum launch

February 13, 4-6pm

_gaia studio invites you to join SexEd (Norene Leddy + Liz Slagus) for an exhibition, performance, and launch party for their new Wearing Consent curriculum. SexEd and their collaborator, sex educator Bryana Williams, will conduct consent conversations, perform condom demonstrations, apply consent-themed temporary tattoos and dispense real information on sexual health. SexEd’s new curriculum, Wearing Consent, for educators of all kinds, will also be available as hard copy and online free of charge from their website, www.sexedproject.org, beginning Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2016.

Opening, performance, and curriculum launch party: February 13, 4-6pm

Exhibition dates: February 13 – 28, 2016 (Hours are by appointment, please contact doris@gaiastudio.org)

_gaia studio

315 Third St.

Jersey City, NJ

www.gaiastudio.org

The SexEd doc by RAVA films is live!

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We are so excited and so grateful to everyone who helped to make this happen!

SexEd on Radio 3 Hong Kong

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The amazing Tracy Quan talked about SexEd on Radio 3, Hong Kong!
Host: Phil Whelan
Air date: May 13, 2015
Tracy Quan talks about Sex Ed on Morning Brew, RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.

–Listen here!

–Morning Brew SexEd Facebook posts

“Jam” in English, French, or Portuguese!

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Now you can “Jam” in English, French, or Portuguese! Just click the “settings” icon (looks like a gear) and select your language under Subtitles/CC. Check it out!

Join SexEd + A Blade of Grass on May 12 for a live Reports from the Field!

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Join us on May 12th for a live version of A Blade of Grass’s Reports from the Field initiative, where we’ll be talking about our artist residency at the school-based health center and developing an arts-based sexual health curriculum at Washington Irving High School Campus in New York City. We will be talking with Programs Director Elizabeth Grady, along with project collaborators Caitlin Hanson, Cory Silverberg, and Bryana Williams.

RSVP only—space is limited! Please RSVP to: rsvp@abladeofgrass.org

http://www.abladeofgrass.org/attend/reports-from-the-field-sexed/

Open Engagement 2015 = new SexEd videos!

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CheckIMG_5166 out our latest videos from Open Engagement 2015!

SexEd Presents: Pleasure
Sexy and essential pleasure resources that are part of the SexEd online video exhibition “YouwishyouwouldhaveknownTube” and made during Open Engagement 2015.

What is pleasure? Why it is controversial? Why is it seemingly taboo for self-identified women? Why is it illegal to discuss in the context of ‘comprehensive’ sex education? These videos were made in collaboration with SexEd after a workshop about pleasure with sex educator, Karen B.K. Chan, and respond to the question “What do you wish someone would have taught or told you about pleasure and sex?”

http://sexedproject.org/sexed-presents-pleasure/