Resources
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- Guide to Safer Sex from Scarleteen
- Scarleteen, Sex Education for the Real World
- Amplify Your Voice, a project of Advocates For Youth
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, a resource for survivors or bystanders of sexual violence
- SPARK a Movement, works against the sexualization of girls in the media, with a focus on healthy sexuality
- Go Ask Alice! A Q&A service provided by Columbia University for both students and the general public with questions or curiosity about health topics, particularly issues around sexuality
- Female Sexuality Course, peer-taught at a number of colleges including UC Berkeley and Brown University, here and here
- Brandeis University Student Sexuality Information Service
- Sex Ed at Moishe/Kavod House
- Our Whole Lives Lifespan Sexuality Education Curricula, created by the Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
- The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- Feministing is a blog and online community for feminists
- Jezebel is a blog and news outlet for women run by Gawker Media
- The Guttmacher Institute is a non-profit organization which works to advance sexual and reproductive health through research and policy analysis
- The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health is a resource for inclusive information about sexuality both online and in person in Pawtucket, RI, including support for people of different ages, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities
- Oh Megan
- Amy Schalet writes about adolescent sexuality
- Shira Tarrant writes about gender and sexual politics, with a particular expertise on men and feminism
- Logan Levkoff
Books
A selection of book sources (alphabetical order)
- Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship, Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, and Amy Sullivan 1995
- Challenging Casanova: Beyond the Stereotype of the Promiscuous Young Male, Andrew P. Smiler, 2012
- Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality, Deborah Tolman 2002
- Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America, Lisa Dodson 1998
- Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy, Kristin Luker 1996
- Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, Emily White 2002
- Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy 2006
- The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls, Colette Dowling 2000
- Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, Jennifer Baumgardner 2005
- The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It, M. Gigi Durham 2008
- Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner 2000
- Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood, Elaine Bell Kaplan 1997
- Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, Naomi Wolf 1997
- Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, Jennifer Pozner 2010
- The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do—Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt, Sharon Lamb 2001
- Slut: Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation, LeoraTanenbaum 2000
- Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Susan J Douglas 1995
- What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Jaclyn Friedman 2011
Video
- It Gets Better Project, Dan Savage
- Sex Is Back, The Pleasure Chest
- How to Lose Your Virginity, a documentary by Therese Schechter
- Orgasm, Inc., Liz Canner
- Miss Representation, a documentary about how women are depicted in the media
- The Line Project/Where Is Your Line, Nancy Schwartzman
- Let’s Talk About Sex, James Houston
- I Had an Abortion, Jennifer Baumgardner and Gillian Aldrich
- Girls Like Us, Jane C Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio
- Embracing Our Sexuality, Mark Lipman
- Finding Our Way, Mark Lipman
- Growing Up Female, Julia Reichert and Jim Klein
- To Have and To Hold, Mark Lipman
- Breasts: A Documentary, Meema Spidola
- Private Dicks: Men Exposed, Meema Spidola and Thom Powers,
You don’t have to take my word for it! Some great book lists from amazon users:
Suggested Resources from our Outreach Team Member Rebecca Yadegar:
Jennifer Fox: Flying: Diary of a Free Woman
Shortbus (fiction)
Vagina Monologues
Orgasm Inc.
Our Bodies Ourselves
Planned Parenthood
Sex and the City
Domestic Violence I and II (Frederick Wiseman)
Groundbreaking article of feminist film studies by Laura Mulvey
Dorothy Edwards, executive director of Green Dot, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of personal violence. She founded the University of Kentucky’s Violence Intervention and Prevention Center.
Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock college. She’s author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
WAM! Women Action Media/Center for New Words
Miss Representation (Documentary)