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Kayla developed substantial physical concerns after her trauma, has undergone extensive care for her symptoms, and has advice for those who may be struggling.

A list of recent links posted to Scarleteen’s social media platforms.

For as long as I could remember, I had a tight foreskin. As I got into my teenage years, I began to realize that it was *too* tight.

Read all the best online content anyone could want about bodies, relationships, sex, sexuality, disability, identity and more.

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A website for queer, inclusive, comprehensive sex ed and relationships education, information, community and support for young people and people of all ages.

Professor Ana Gabriella Sardinha and her team have been developing The Menstrual ConSCIENCE Trail game to teach Brazilian young people about menstrual cycles.

I did not feel ready to navigate possible transphobia alone, I needed backup. I was expecting to have that for this date via the person I was on the date with. Without her, I felt trapped in a restaurant where I felt other patrons looking at me or whispering about me. This was a steakhouse in the heart of Plano, Texas.

For survivors struggling with pelvic symptoms, pelvic physical therapy can be an invaluable component of a recovery journey.

Thanks to a collection of awesome people, and the 60+ prizes they’ve generously donated, we’re able to offer a raffle quadruple the size of last years’!

Learn about the physical aftermath of sexual trauma, and what the research shows about some of sexual trauma’s long-term effects.

Women who had to, or chose to, dress as men to access masculine environments to follow their calling are often overlooked in history. Enter the book Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do by Tracy Dawson, who talks here with Gabriel Leão.

If humans could learn to honor the wisdom coming through our bodies as children and understand every body is unique I think we could transform our society.

Part two of a series on vaginal trainers, on the specifics of using them, from Caitlyn Tivy, a pelvic health physical therapist and health writer.

Dilators—or vaginal trainers—are pelvic health devices. If a clinician has recommended them or you’re simply curious, start here for basic information!

A guide to finding queer media, even when it feels hard.

I am now no longer our only director, and it’s unlikely anyone here will ever be on their own in that way again, which is so awesome I might literally implode with joy and relief. Scarleteen now, and hopefully evermore, operates as a multi-generational co-directorship, built in such a way that utilizes all of our unique skills, shared abilities, and collective dedication and talent.

For all the body positivity of our modern era, we still don’t hear many public conversations about periods. In many parts of the world, people are and have long been cut off from resources and education about periods: and the more marginalized the person, the more cut off they’ve usually been. Let’s have an honest discussion about what periods are, some of the unique challenges that transmasculine people who menstruate can grapple with, and how to address them.

Britain’s Quintimacy is a space that intends to cultivate queer intimacy through trauma-informed and embodied connection. In an interview with Scarleteen, founder Beck Thom talks about their working frameworks, sex ed in the UK, what they do at Quintimacy and the need to better educate people, including children and teenagers, about trauma and consent.

When it comes to our bodies and feeling good in them, it’s usually better to listen and respond to what they are telling us than to tell them what to do.

This week, with the folks at EducateUS, we’re reflecting on “Queer Sex Ed For All” as a mission, a slogan and rallying-cry which originated with us in 2017.