Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check. November 12, 2009. It's bad enough the media teaches my daughter harmful gender stereotypes. Does she have to get it at school, too?
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. May 27, 2009. Palin knew her daughter was having sex in her own house. What does it take to get discredited as a right-wing "family values" merchant these days?
Carmen D. Siering, Ms. Magazine. May 19, 2009. Adults have an obligation to start a conversation concerning the darker themes and anti-feminist rhetoric in the extremely popular Twilight series.
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2009. Rejecting abstinence-only funding is only one part of the movement to empower young people. There's much more to do.
Steve Yoder, In These Times. March 14, 2009. Since Democrats took control in 2006, Congress has yet to cut even a dollar of abstinence education funding. Let's hope change is on the way.
Pam Chamberlain, The Public Eye. March 3, 2009. Abstinence-only sex ed is a tool of ideological management that is deeply entrenched in American culture and social policy.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. February 17, 2009. In her first public interview, Bristol told Fox News' that abstinence is "not realistic at all."
Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check. February 10, 2009. We've spend years being bludgeoned by zealots wielding sex as a weapon to divide America. Is it time for a new sexual revolution?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 28, 2009. Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.
Natalie Dylan, The Daily Beast. January 27, 2009. The idealization of virginity is a tool to keep women in their place. So what's to stop me from profiting?
Chelsea Ricker, RH Reality Check. January 17, 2009. Yet more evidence that abstinence-only programs, many of which include virginity pledges, do not work.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. December 30, 2008. The U.S. government has spent more than $1.5 billion on abstinence programs. What a terrible waste.
Lorraine Kenny, RH Reality Check. December 4, 2008. Sex ed advocates have unwittingly undermined their message by adopting the language of abstinence-only groups.
Christopher White, American Sexuality Magazine. September 27, 2008. There are many ways of helping young people navigate these years of sexual exploration. Just don't forget you were once a teen yourself.
Marsha Rosenbaum, Jennifer Kern, AlterNet. September 10, 2008. Abstinence-only education simply doesn't work, no matter how much Sarah Palin or George Bush dream it will.
Karen Dolan, AlterNet. September 3, 2008. I wholly believe in educating my child about contraception. But given that he is 7, I could have waited a few years for that particular talk.
Vanessa Valenti, AlterNet. August 28, 2008. Conservatives finally learned that sheer moralizing doesn't keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.
