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Clickable links in the curriculum not working?

July 30, 2025 Nyk Rayne
Is your pdf reading program blocking links from opening on the web while using our curriculum? Here is a help article that walks you through changing your settings in Adobe Acrobat. Have a different program doing the same thing? Send us an email at info@unhushed.org and we’ll help you trouble…
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A letter from Dr. Karen Rayne

December 31, 2024 Dr. Karen Rayne
Dear friends of UN|HUSHED, I am very excited to share that I am stepping down as Executive Director, and moving into the role of Director of Education. My co-founder Nyk Rayne will be stepping into the Executive Director role, and I hope you will celebrate these changes with us! Back…
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Optimistic Masculinity

December 13, 2024 Nyk Rayne
One of our two current projects focuses on the potential for optimistic masculinity. An optimistic approach to masculinity has not been the primary focus of the global understanding of manhood, maybe ever. However, events in the last hundred years have dramatically influenced gender dynamics. Some (but definitely not all) of…
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UN|HUSHED at Home

December 13, 2024 Nyk Rayne
The political climate around inclusive, medically accurate sexuality education at school is changing and will probably continue to get worse at the federal level over the next four years. (This aim is specifically spelled out in Project 2025 (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise, notable pages include 4, 62, and 226.) And while there are…
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