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Sharing The Essay Behind My Passion for Sexual Education Reform
Last year, I wrote an essay for my AP Literature class, which I titled “The Revolutionary Power of All Things Sex.” This was my examination of the nuanced messages on sexuality, sexual education, and self-esteem that are interwoven within Alice Walker’s The Color...
The Flip Side: A Site that Recognizes and Combats Polarization
Straying a little bit away from my normal articles, I wanted to highlight a reliable, neutral, well-rounded news platform. “The Flip Side” is a website whose goal is to “help bridge the gap between liberals and conservatives,” which they do by being, “a one-stop shop...
How One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Highlights the Importance of Sexual Expression
I just read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, and for so many reasons I can’t stop thinking about it. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic novel about a male mental ward, and the effects that the ward and its authoritarian leader, Nurse Ratched,...
Shining a Spotlight on Healthcare: A Look into Affirmations
Founded in 1989, Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center in Ferndale has a mission to “provide a welcoming space where people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and cultures can find support and unconditional acceptance, and where they can...
Shining a Spotlight on Sexual Healthcare: A Look into Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is one of the most amazing, impactful organizations. It is need-based, globally helping millions each year. Planned parenthood combats our scarce and narrow sex education, offering everyone safe reproductive health care and sex education; resources...
An Exploration of Colleen Hoover’s Harmful Sex Tropes
Colleen Hoover was the best selling author of 2022, and TikTok led her to this title. Hoover’s 2016 book It Ends With Us was read, loved, and promoted by many users on TikTok in 2021, causing all of her books to blow up. Her steamy romance novels attracted a female,...
Dispelling Myths and Empowering Women: Lessons from Principles of Pleasure’s First Episode
“Knowing where the clitoris is is knowledge. Knowing where your own clitoris is is power.” Principles of Pleasure is an amazing limited series that came out on Netflix in 2022. It tackles the knowledge gap for women about their bodies and sexuality by dispelling...
The “Innie vs Outie” TikTok Trend: Body Shaming and the Importance of Comprehensive Sex Education
Social Media is a powerful platform–one where information, ideas, and beliefs are spread. But social media is powerful in another sense–it can exploit one's insecurities and sense of self. When the majority of users on social media endorse a certain ideal or...
Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The Basics of the Female Reproductive System
In 2020, Intima conducted a study on how well women know their bodies. The findings are jarring, showcasing several areas where women lack knowledge about their bodies. To bridge this knowledge gap, and gain a better understanding of female reproduction and bodies,...