wiscon reading list
Apr. 21st, 2012 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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)?
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Are you reading anything for Wiscon?
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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Date: 2012-04-22 02:05 am (UTC)I really like the sound of that book by the Taking Charge of your Fertility author for teenage girls. I haven't actually read it, though.
One of the sex-ed points which I often make in conversations is that by educating our kids, we were helping to provide good information to the neighbourhood and the classmates, in hopes of counteracting some of the bad information out there. It's quite possible that we provided some of them with condoms too; I don't know, because of our commitment never to count the ones in the part-box.
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Date: 2012-04-22 02:14 am (UTC)Or so most parents probably hope.
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