Playing football demands full-contact physicality. How does celebrating women playing elite level football impact the way gender and sexuality is perceived, experienced and made possible?
Sex ed should be inclusive, empowering, and facilitate ethical sexual relationships.
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Good sex ed doesn’t lead to early sex, teenage pregnancy and STIs. It protects against them.
An issue for people not interested in sex is created by everyone else’s idea that they should be and that there’s something wrong with them.
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The messages that adolescents receive from sexuality education classes are frequently negative. It’s time for the curriculum to become more empowering for learners and teachers.
There are very few spaces in which girls can discuss menstruation or ask questions about it.
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Menstruation is a fact of life – but in many parts of Africa, it’s something that young women dread. A South African research group is working to change this.
Asking patients about sexual matters is universally recognized as an important part of collecting a patient’s medical history. But many physicians don’t take sexual histories from their patients.
Sexting is a co-authored, negotiated experience that can empower young people.
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There has been something of a moral panic around sexting – but research suggests that it can create safe, empowering spaces for young people exploring their sexuality.
LNP MP George Christensen has been vociferous in his opposition to the Safe Schools program.
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Many babies are born with a genetic variant that can result in the child being neither a typical boy or girl. There has been considerable debate about whether the child should be treated.
About 80% of homophobic and transphobic incidents that young people experience take place in schools.
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About 80% of students experience some kind of gender-based bullying in their primary and high school years. But research shows that teachers often fail to intervene or are not equipped to deal with it.
The Tribhangi Dance Company performs Circles and Squares at the South African Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg.
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South Africa’s foremost contemporary dance festival is celebrating its 28th birthday in 2016. It has remained relevant, vital and – despite the format’s esoteric nature – hugely popular.
Despite challenges, Indonesia’s LGBT community continues to fight for its rights.
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A recent onslaught against gays and lesbians in Indonesia shows a fresh wave of moral panic over homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
The Safe Schools Coalition aims to help students deal with a broad range of sexual identities.
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Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are out of touch with social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people understand their own sexual and gender identities.
Topless women gather near Iceland’s parliament in 2015 for the Free the Nipple campaign.
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What is often overlooked in discussions about the sexual appeal of breasts is that they have not always been regarded as irresistibly attractive in all points in history and across all cultures.
Sexual consent is not a one-off “yes” or “no”.
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Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology