A letter from 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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Policies, Procedures, and Practices, Oh My!

This blog post was written in anticipation of our upcoming workshop for educators and other professionals, “Love Notes 💜 to Policies.” Click here to learn more and sign up! There are times when students do things that we wish they wouldn’t, especially around topics of sexuality and sexuality education. Things that are…
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Why K-12 Comprehensive Sex Ed Matters

I was recently in a small group of parents and the conversation turned to elementary sex ed. One parent told a story about the only sex ed she ever had in school, which was a sex-segregated movie viewing where a mother ended up making pancakes shaped like a uterus, fallopian…
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Holiday Hot Chocolate

Winter is upon those of us in the northern hemisphere! The holidays associated with December are often connected with the global north’s weather and climate perspective. I have been reading up on the many histories of how and why the December’s holidays are celebrated. Overwhelmingly they focus on light and…
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Why We Wrote a Handbook for Child Welfare Providers

While working as a case manager for youth in foster care, Monica realized that she had little idea how to provide information to youth to educate them about sex, sexuality, and their health. She saw a clear need after having very young adolescents ask for pregnancy tests, trying to explain…
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