violence
This Guide to Sexual Grooming Can Protect You and Your Friends from Online Abusers
The Scarleteen Safety Plan
No Grey Area: A Journey Identifying and Healing from Sexual Assault
How to Care for Friends Who've Experienced Trauma
We Need Federal Legislation Against Campus Sexual Violence in Canada
What's Death Positivity and How Can It Help Us? A Conversation with Sarah Chavez
Scarleteen Confidential: Helping Youth Handle Rejection
Young people don’t arrive at their conclusions about appropriate romantic behavior in a vacuum; they’re influenced by a myriad of messages, including input from the adults in their lives. Sometimes that input includes ideas that end up exacerbating issues around rejection and dating. One of the ways we can work towards a world in which acts like this no longer happen, a world in which people, and women in particular, aren’t afraid their “no” will make them a target of violence, is to make a concerted effort to help the young people in our lives learn to deal with rejection in healthy ways. With that in mind, we’ve put together recommendations to assist adults in doing exactly that.
No. More.
What should you do when someone says no to or otherwise refuses or declines your romantic or sexual gestures or asks Accept it and stop making those gestures or asks. That's the right answer every single time: just accept someone's no and then back right off.
Asking or otherwise pressing over and over isn't the right answer. "Not giving up" (which often looks a whole lot like harassment) isn't the right answer. Trying to get them to change their mind isn't the right answer. Trying to get them to change their mind through their friends or family also isn't the right answer. And while it should be obvious, we so sadly know that it isn't: no kind of violence is ever the right answer.
Sexuality in Color: Wakandan Women and Sexism in Black Panther
The women of Wakanda both deal with and triumph over sexism. How can we apply Black Panther to our own lives?
Sexuality in Color: Indigenous Rights and Resistance
Today's post is not about Thanksgiving, but rather, about the violence and colonialism that indigenous people (especially women and two-spirit folks) have been facing for hundreds of years. My gratitude is not for turkey, but for indigenous remembrance and resistance.