Category: Consent

Sex Ed & the Law

Sex Ed & the Law

August 4, 2021 Brian Flaherty
There are many places where the law and sex education intersect, and they can be broken down into several categories.  Certainly there is some overlap among them, but for the purpose of this post, the categories are: state law and policy on sex education, laws affecting sex educators in the…
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#TBT Sex Ed History – The Answer is No

December 17, 2020 Jessica Smarr
The Answer is No: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and Our Evolving Understanding of Consent Put down the milk and cookies and gird your loins, guys, gals, and non-binary pals. The War on Christmas is here again. Starbucks released their holiday cups, alleged serial sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is on Twitter…
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Teaching MS and HS Sex Ed Online During a Pandemic

March 24, 2020 Dr. Karen Rayne
Are you about to teach comprehensive sexuality education online for middle or high school students for the first time ever? You’re not alone. Many people are prepping without any substantial information, experience, or even research on how to do it! Below are ten tips from UN|HUSHED on how to present…
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2019 A year in review

December 9, 2019 Nyk Rayne
Here at UN|HUSHED we’ve had a very busy 2019. So busy we didn’t have time to write much in our blog to tell you all about it. Funny how that works isn’t it? So let’s dive in to what we’ve done and what we’re doing… JANUARY We kicked off the…
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UN|HUSHED: The High School Curriculum

October 24, 2018 Dr. Karen Rayne
This week we are SO THRILLED to announce that our brand new high school curriculum is up and available for purchase and use! UN|HUSHED: The High School Curriculum, by Karen Rayne, PhD and Kirsten deFur, MPH is available exclusively through our online portal, accessible when you are logged into your account. This…
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Relationship Architecture: Understanding Columns and Shadows

October 10, 2018 Dr. Karen Rayne
The metaphor that we use over here at UN|HUSHED for healthy relationships are the four columns of Respect, Equality, Safety, and Trust. Thinking about these four elements as columns that hold up a relationship and make it strong, sturdy, and reliable makes for a pretty good graphic. It makes intuitive…
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Sexual harassment, consent, and hugging grandma

May 6, 2013 Dr. Karen Rayne
Yesterday in my middle school class we talked about sexual harassment. The students had a general notion of these as bad things, but little in the way of details. The problem is generally that people misconstrue sexual harassment with sexual assault. They don’t realize that harassment can be verbal, can…
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