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How Parents Can Talk to Their Kids About Consent
Black Sexual Violence Survivors Are Telling Their Stories — Only to Be Punished
Disabled People Can Still Be Forcibly Sterilized in Over Half of the US
How Parents Should Talk About Sex With Their Kids (hint: honestly)
Why It’s Never Too Early to Start Sex Ed With Your Kids
The Cascading Silences of Sexual Violence
Please, Talk to Your Kids About Abortion
A Professor Was Accused of Sexual Harassment and Resigned. At His Next University, It Happened Again.
How the Psychedelic Community Should Respond to Sexual Abuse
Survivors of Medical Abuse at ICE Jail in Georgia Are Still Waiting for Justice
Is Criminalization The Right Response To Domestic Violence?
Young People Talking About Their Abortions Could Change Everything
Maybe Cops Shouldn't Handle Domestic Violence Calls
What Do We Do With Abusers Like R. Kelly If We Abolish Prisons?
The Pandemic Disrupted Sex Ed When Students Needed It Most
Beyond Cancel Culture: How to Hold Each Other Accountable—With Love
How To Get An Abortion If You’re Under 18
Texas Valedictorian Drops Her Commencement Speech To Get Real About State's Anti-Abortion Bill
Better Than Sex Ed: Pop Culture Is Teaching Teens About Sex
The Sex Educators Helping Muslim Women Claim Their Sexuality
To Counter Domestic Violence, Some Native Americans Embrace Tradition
Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse Echo on for Generations
Sex Education In The United States Is Broken, But It Doesn’t Have To Be.
A Third Grader Drew a Rocket That Looked Like a Penis. She Was Handcuffed and Removed From School.
How to Normalize Talking to Your Kids About Pleasure
To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them
Black Families Are Outraged About Family Separation Within The U.S. It’s Time To Listen To Them
Taking a Stand: How Teens Are Working to End Relationship Violence
How Sex Ed Has the Power to Make Social Change
We Should Teach Children About Miscarriage During Sex Ed. Here’s Why.
For Everybody and Their Mama: Sex Ed For All Month
Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation
Child Marriage Is Not Consensual: America’s Dirty Little Secret
Sex Education Is Missing Yet Another Crucial Topic. We Need To Fix That.
Comprehensive Sex Education Could Curb Everyone’s Trauma Around Sex
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up
Everything We've Been Doing To Teach Kids About Periods Is Wrong
What To Know About Sexual Orientation And Mental Health In Youth
What I Learned As A MAP's Partner
Sexual Assault Against Boys Is a Crisis
The Child Welfare System Is Another Form Of Discriminatory Policing
Sexual Violence and the Disability Community
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
What Do Abstinence-Only Sex Ed and Rape Culture Have in Common?
Alternatives to Calling the Police for Domestic Violence Survivors
Childhood Abuse Leaves 'Devastating Impact' on Adults
The War On Porn Does Not Help Children
Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?
‘WAP’ and Sex Ed: How the Billboard-Topping Track is ‘Making Conversations About Sexual Health Less Taboo’
What LGBTQ-Positive Sex Ed Should Look Like
Screening May Miss One-quarter of Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Creating Consent-Conscious Holidays
How 5 Transgender Men Really Feel About The #MeToo Reckoning
A Radical New Plan for MeToo Turns Away From “Law and Order” Feminism
Sex Education Referendum 90 Passes In Washington State Election Results
'I felt like a weight was lifted': How I May Destroy You Empowered Sexual Assault Survivors
Aching for Abolition: As a survivor of sexual violence, I know prison isn’t the answer.
The Truth Behind QAnon
Childhood Sexual Abuse: Mental And Physical After-effects Closely Linked
Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors
Violence Cannot Remedy Violence
'Defund the police' movement could offer sexual assault survivors a different path for justice
Men Who Survived Childhood Sexual Abuse
We Have Already Stopped Calling The Cops
Remote learning returns this fall, and parents should gear up for teaching sex ed
Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Rochdale grooming: 'Why did I get a criminal record when I was a victim?'
Thousands of Migrant Children Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Custody
Pandemic Poses Key Challenges For Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
How We End Over-Policing of Black Children
Why Students Need Sex Education That’s Honest About Racism
Sex Offender Registries Are Fueling Mass Incarceration — And They Aren’t Helping Survivors
Featured Resources
Zepp Wellness Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2019 by Raquel Savage, a Black queer sex worker and therapist, that centers the mental health and healing needs of Black queer folks, survivors and sex workers.
All services are free to the community — Zepp currently provides in-person and online therapy, an online sex worker support group, trauma-informed yoga and energy work, a rent relief fund for Black trans women sex workers and an art class.
Sex is a Funny Word: A book about bodies, feelings, and you by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
1-800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673) National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-888-PREVENT (888-773-2362) Stop It Now!, Stop Child Sexual Abuse
1-866-FOR-LIGHT (866-367-5444) Darkness to Light, End Child Sexual Abuse
1-800-4-A-CHILD (800-422-4453) The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678) National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-844-733-4251 DrugRehab.com
Gender and Family Project Empowers youth, families and communities by providing gender affirmative services, training, and research.
Sex Positive Families Provides education and resources that help families raise sexually healthy children using a shame-free, comprehensive, and pleasure-positive approach.
Queer Kids Stuff a LGBTQ+ and social justice webseries for kids
Everybody Curious a YouTube series about sexuality and healthy relationships for youth and their parents ages 9-12
Amaze Videos about sexual health for young adolescents and their parents
Darkness to Light , End Child Sexual Abuse Empowers adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse through awareness, education, and stigma reduction.
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization.
Child Help – Prevention & Treatment of Child Abuse The largest organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect as well as at-risk children.
Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute A national, science-based, 501(c)3, nonprofit organization in Alameda, CA. CMRPI conducts research to prevent child sexual abuse and provides information to prevention organizations, agencies, professionals, and families to use to prevent abuse.
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) A community group based out of Oakland, CA working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse.
DrugRehab Equips patients and families with the best information, resources and tools to overcome addiction and pursue lifelong recovery.
Children of Combahee A project focused on ending child sexual abuse in black churches using womanist/black liberation methods via the Just Beginnings Collaborative.
Community United Against Violence (CUAV) works to build the power of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities to transform violence and oppression.
Creative Interventions Shifts education and resources back to families and communities. Established in 2004, the project aimed to place knowledge and power among those most impacted by violence.
Firecracker Foundation Provides comprehensive services to child survivors and their families, and offers community education by creating a holistic, safe space for the community to support children, families, and advocates.
Impact Justice Daring to dream of a humane and restorative system of justice in the United States. Through innovation, research, policy, and advocacy, they are forging a new path to a justice system that is fair to all of us.
INCITE! A network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.
Living Bridges Project A story-collecting project documenting responses to child sexual abuse.
Love With Accountability Centering diasporic Black survivors, and focusing on radical healing and accountability.
The Northwest Network Working to end violence and abuse by building loving and equitable relationships in our community and across the country.
Mirror Memoirs An oral history project centering the narratives, healing and leadership of LGBTQ survivors of color in the movement to end child sexual abuse.
The Ahisma Collective Working to address harm in ways that foster wholeness for everyone. They engage with deep trauma healing and restorative approaches while being grounded in anti-oppression. They work in deep community with people who have committed an act of violence, survivors of violence, and families impacted by harm.
Prostasia Foundation A child protection organization that combines our zero tolerance of child sexual abuse with our commitment to human and civil rights and sex positivity.
Sex Positive Families Resource List A database of the most inclusive, sex positive sexual health resources for every age and stage
Transgender Sexual Violence Survivors: A Self Help Guide to Healing and Understanding
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network A mental health practitioners network where therapists can deepen their analysis of healing justice and where QTPoC community can connect to care.
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