As part of the HealthClass2.0 team, Liz Slagus and Norene Leddy (SexEd) received one of five grants from the Fund for Collaborative Innovation. HC2.0 aims to help young people in New York City develop healthy habits while building our understanding of the structural factors that contribute to health and food insecurity in under-resourced communities. Leddy and Slagus will be working with HC2.0 founder Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela (Lang) to develop and implement new HC2.0 curriculum that combines art and sex education. This program is made possible by a two-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and is part of The New School’s Social Innovation Initiative. 

Here is another post from MTV’s “IT’S YOUR SEX LIFE”. Explore how sharing our feelings about sex with someone we care about and respect is very important in a relationship. The post also includes talking tips to help start these sometimes difficult conversations.

http://www.itsyoursexlife.com/preventing-pregnancy/waiting/

It’s difficult to find art-inspired videos about sex education, but sex education can be interesting and creative! Here are the three videos from MTV’s “IT’S YOUR SEX LIFE.”

1. Two Condoms are Better Than One

2. jump to conclusions

3. You know if You’re Infertile

See what your answers would be!

Another great post from Scarleteen about empowering people to make sex happen — here’s to enthusiastic consent!

http://www.scarleteen.com/article/etc/when_sex_just_happened_and_
how_to_make_it_happen_instead

SexEd is thrilled to have Rumi Chen, our intern this summer, blogging for us. Rumi is a designer from Taiwan, you can check out her portfolio here: http://rumichen.wix.com/2011portfolio. We are really looking forward to her posts!

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-still-so-few-use-condoms/275301/

We’re gearing up for our exhibition at Cuchifritos. Here’s a mock-playbill for “Are you Ready for Sex with… George Washington?” by commissioned artists Mark Shoffner and Rebecca Herman — see the video Feb. 9!

Our SexEd proposal is part of the IWT’s Artists in Residence for the US Government project. Check out this video by Maureen Connor: