wiscon reading list

[boxofdelights]

(hat tip to wired)

I'm in the middle of Akata Witch. I have Beauty Queens out from the library, because it is on the Tiptree Honors List, though it does not look like my sort of thing. But I am tempted to abandon them both, because The Chaos and Fire and Hemlock both arrived on my doorstep today! Also I should look at all the sex ed books that have been published in the last ten years, because I am moderating this panel:

Let's talk about how we talk about sex with kids -- our own OR other people's. Sex ed has become increasingly politicized and all too often schools wind up catering to their most conservative demographic -- how do we frame these debates and argue forcefully that EVERYONE'S children deserve accurate sex ed? On a more informal level, how, when, and in what level of detail? There are a million books out there for parents about how to talk about sex with their kids, and a million more designed to give to your kids instead of actually talking to them -- are there any that are feminist, explicit enough to include the clitoris in their diagrams, frank about contraception, and sex-positive (...but maybe not TOO positive)?

[I did not write the panel description.]

Are you reading anything for Wiscon?

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[krait]

Haha, wow, I read that panel topic in a very different way at first, and was really baffled for most of the following description till I wrenched my brain around and reshuffled the interverbal relationships. Because "Let's talk about how we talk about [sex with kids]" and "Let's talk about how we [talk about sex] with kids" are two very, very separate panels.

Or so most parents probably hope.