Category: Safe Spaces
We Used to Cry Over Bathroom Walls
There was a time when girls came home in tears over the writing on the [...]
Child Abuse Is Not a Team Sport
And we’re not playing sides when kids are the ones getting hurt.
Le [...]
Discomfort Is Data: Rethinking How We Teach Sex Education to Children
Teaching consent means we must also practice it.Too often, when ch [...]
Lucy Diggs Slowe: Defender of Boundaried Spaces for Black Girls in Higher Education
Because safety has always been part of the curriculum—if we make it so [...]
Lizzy Seeberg’s Story: When Colleges Choose Power Over Protection
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It is nothing new for colleges to support athletes, not female st [...]
When Safety Fails: The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence
Too many students pack their dreams into suitcases, head off to coll [...]
A Timeline That Puts It All in Perspective: The History of Sex Education in U.S. Schools
To understand the heated debates around sex education today, it helps [...]
Let’s Take a Breath: Why Sex Education Is Not Like Math or History
There are some who are genuinely wondering:“Why can parents opt [...]
Representation Is Not a Justification for Adultification
Listen, there is nothing new under the sun.In my earlier caree [...]
Why Childhood Should Be Sacred—Not Negotiable
Childhood Is Sacred
There are few things more holy than a child’s lau [...]