There’s not much longer now until we see all of you in Atlantic City! To continue to get you excited about conference programming, here’s the next in a series of posts meant to prepare you for this year’s National Sex Ed Conference. This week, we spotlight Lin Jovanovic, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist who will be… Read more »
This is one in a series of posts meant to prepare you for this year’s National Sex Ed Conference. This week, we spotlight Liz Zadnik and Sarah Bear, B.A., colleagues at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA), who will be speaking about sexual violence prevention on Thursday, December 7, 3 p.m. – 4… Read more »
This is the first in a series of posts meant to prepare you for this year’s National Sex Ed Conference. This week, we spotlight Dianne Browne, Ph.D., CFLE, Project Director of Camden Healthy Start at Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, who will be speaking about reproductive justice on Thursday, December 7, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15… Read more »
Earlier this month, hundreds of sexuality educators poured into the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the Center for Sex Education’s annual National Sex Ed Conference. The weather was brisk and the days were growing darker but, inside the conference rooms on the hotel’s dining level, attendees were too immersed in workshops… Read more »
Here’s the next in our series of posts meant to prepare you for the National Sex Ed Conference. This week, we spotlight Al Vernacchio, M.S.Ed., a sexuality educator who will be speaking about how best to approach puberty education. 1. Can you give me a quick rundown of what keeps you busiest these days? I am a… Read more »
Here’s the next in our series of posts meant to prepare you for the National Sex Ed Conference. This week, we spotlight Zelaika Hepworth Clarke, Ph.D.—also known as the Jamerican Sexosopher—a sexologist and social worker who will be speaking about the decolonization of sexuality education. 1. Give me a bit of background. What keeps you busiest these days?… Read more »
Continuing our efforts to get you fired up for the forthcoming National Sex Ed Conference, here’s another post spotlighting one of our conference presenters (you can find our previous presenter spotlight here). Ryan Bronkema, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of West Georgia where he teaches Counselor Education and College Student Affairs. He’ll be… Read more »
The National Sex Ed Conference is fast approaching. Among the educators scheduled to present are Mark Levand and Sasha Canan, who are speaking about the sexualization of sex educators. Attendees of Levand and Canan’s presentation will be given a platform for understanding and processing how they can and have been sexualized based upon their profession, and… Read more »
In the past few years, issues of consent—and a shift from “no means no” to “yes means “yes”—have placed consent education and rape prevention at the forefront of the sex ed debate. In 2014, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” and then retracted the piece after many parts of the story were called into question. In… Read more »
HuffPo’s Best and Worst in Sex List Another New Year, another “Best and Worst” list. But this is one we can get behind! Huffington Post ranked Louisiana State Rep. Patricia Smith’s quote, that “lack of sex education is ‘really a form of child abuse’” as the best Sex Ed moment of 2014. They argue that… Read more »
