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Bodies info for all. Anatomy, function and systems explainers, debunking, help navigating healthcare and more, all without arbitrary gender assignments.
Gender expression and roles, identities within relationships, intersex, trans and gender diversity, sexual orientation, cultural, racial and other kinds of identity.
Friendships, romantic and sexual relationships, relationships at work, at home, or at school. Dating, breakups, conflicts, red flags and communication.
Defining, exploring, experiencing and expressing sexuality, including feelings, communication, consent, masturbation and sex with partners.
Menstruation, infections and health conditions, birth control, abortion, vaccinations, safer sex and other preventative sexual health practices.
Information and advice on everything from gestation to early termination to birthing, and everything in between.
Information for parents or guardians of every age, including teen parents. Help with family planning and with parenting toddlers to teens.
What is abuse and what kinds of abuse are there? Information on abuse including help identifying it, prevention, avoiding it and getting out, and healing.
Sex, relationships and bodies information for people with a range of disabilities, from neurodiversity to chronic illness to mobility or cognitive disability.
Emotions and living with them, mental health and the places they come into play in sex and relationships.
Our larger cultures impact our individual experiences, lives and identities: the ways that happens and how to live in the world.
Books / Publications
Considered by many to be *the* sex and relationships book for young people, this Lambda Literary Award nominee currently in its 2nd edition covers everything from STIs to sexual orientation, body image to birth control, masturbation to media to misogyny, the anatomy of the clitoris to considering cohabitation.
From the Glossary
Short for “premenstrual syndrome”. A varying set of symptoms that many people who menstruate experience just prior to their period.
Possible symptoms may include irritability, fatigue, cramps, headaches, backaches, nausea, moodswings, feeling bloated, breast tenderness, and a huge number of other physical and emotional symptoms.
