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Education is one of the greatest tools we have for securing a good future for humanity. Every person has potential – every person has a calling, something they are good at – but that potential must be nurtured and scaffolded or nothing will ever come of it.
Unfortunately, literacy and formal education have historically been available only to rich men. Informal education – parents teaching kids how to sew, farm, cook, etc. – has always existed. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but receiving informal education alone provides very …
Gender is a social construct. It assumes that, by definition, females are feminine and males are masculine. These gender constructs completely disregard hermaphrodites, the transgendered, and others who do not fit neatly in the "man" or "woman" box. There are male hairstylists, nurses, teachers, fashion models, and stay-at-home dads. There are female engineers, construction workers, CEOs, athletes, and politicians. These people defy their assigned gender roles and the fact that this defiance is rare does not mean that femininity in females and masculinity in males is biologically fixed at …
This entry is a part of our World AIDS Day Blogathon. During this week we share our experiences, stories, and ideas about how HIV affects young people around the world. Join the blogathon .
Today, Campus Women’s Coalition partnered with the Gay-Straight Alliance to raise awareness – about HIV/AIDS, about getting tested, and about using condoms. SDSU has a newly built Wellness Center and they recently opened a Family Planning Clinic. From what I’ve seen of it, it should be able to serve the students’ needs much better …
A friend of a friend suggested that everyone should send the 64 Democratic Representatives who voted for the Stupak Amendment a coat hanger in protest. Not enough money to send 64? Send 26 to the Dems who voted for the Stupak Amendment and against healthcare reform. At the very least, Stupak himself should receive a coat hanger. I’ll post a tutorial on how to make your own mini coat hangers later today. It’s cheaper to make than to buy and they fit in smaller envelopes, so shipping is cheaper, …
Yesterday CWC, College Dems, and the Public Affairs Coordinator from Planned Parenthood teamed up to phonebank for health care reform. More specifically, to make sure comprehensive reproductive health care for women isn’t left out. Conservatives in Congress are – surprise, surprise – aiming for reduced abortion coverage. They want, at minimum, to make sure the public option doesn’t cover women needing abortions, but their goal is to require that no insurance plans are allowed to cover it. That’s right – women who already have abortion coverage could have it …
Today, my mother and I were watching TV. A commercial for Valtrex came on – the medication that helps prevent the spread of genital herpes – and the commercial said that one in five American adults has genital herpes. Both my mother and I commented on how surprisingly high that was, so I looked it up. The commercial was right – 22% of American adults have herpes simplex type 2 and 49% of women aged 15 to 39 will have genital herpes by 2025 if these trends continue. I …
As of an hour ago, I’ve given out 96% of my big box of 500 condoms. Between the Gay-Straight Alliance and Campus Women’s Coalition events, tabling in the Union, and handing them out to people I know, I’d gotten down to about 150. The latest batch of 130 or so were handed out tonight at The Condom War: Battle of the Sexes.
At an earlier CWC event, an RA from Binnewies Hall asked our group to put together a safe sex program. We had some brainstorming sessions and came …
So far my condom distribution (for the Great American Condom Campaign) has gone really well. On April 1st, I gave away about 150 of them at a Campus Women’s Coalition table in the Union. At the table, we were telling people about the dangers of fake clinics. So many of fake clinics tell young women half-truths from old studies when these young women need real facts and help or Plan B or birth control or access to abortion.
I went to a fake clinic in Sioux Falls, SD, …
The Great American Condom Campaign just notified me that I’ve been selected as a Safe Site. They’ll be sending me 500 free condoms donated by Trojan for me to distribute throughout the semester. Considering that the Student Health Center is still the only place on campus to get condoms and that they charge 25 cents a piece, this is very good news for SDSU.
Two years ago, Trojan studied 100 college campuses around the country. SDSU was one of those campuses and frankly, the results were pathetic. The Collegian …
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