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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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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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Talking Together: Get a Foot in the Door, Not a Door in the Face

January 28, 2017 Ryan Dillon
As humans we communicate in many different ways and as technology changes our communication pathways will expand and become easier but complicated at the same time. What do I mean by that? With the rise of texting and social media it lessens the need for a key component to communication:…
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I Don’t Know!

January 2, 2017 Jessica Smarr
In their 2014 book, Think Like a Freak, Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner claimed that the three hardest words in the English Language to say are “I don’t know.” This isn’t the wildest claim to make. If knowledge is power, then admitting you don’t know something can seem akin to…
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