2025 September News
September is already here? TikToxic Masculinity 2.0, where did the summer go, and more...
Tag: sex education
2024 December News
August means back to school, and here in Texas, it means it's time for young Austinites to get signed up for sex ed!
2024 August News: Parent Edition
August means back to school, and here in Texas, it means it's time for young Austinites to get signed up for sex ed!
WAS 2023
Our Executive Director, Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE flew to Antalya, Turkey for the 26th Congress of the WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR SEXUAL HEALTH. She was there for the conference from Nov. 2nd-5th and enjoyed connecting with experts from around the world. Each attendee was asked to come in their regional attire.…
Sex Ed & the Law
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…
#TBT Sex Ed History – Hooligan Penguins
Douglas Russell, curator of avian eggs and nests at London’s Natural History Museum, was shuffling through an old file one day in 2011 or 2012 (the exact date is lost in the annals of time) when he happened upon a pamphlet stamped “NOT FOR PUBLICATION.” He immediately consumed this titillating,…
2019 A year in review
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…
The Pitfalls of Trite Advice
You have probably heard all kinds of trite relationship advice over life because it’s a staple of conversations about relationships. You may even give trite relationship advice sometimes, because sometimes it’s useful. But it’s important to see the advice for what it is and consider whether what you’re repeating makes…
Relationship Architecture: Understanding Columns and Shadows
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…
Teenagers Are What We Have Going For Us
Teenagers are creative, visionary, engaged. They are immersed in the passion of discovery of life. They have a driving need to understand life in a way that is real and visceral. They want to find the wrongs and right them. Teenagers are like a mirror, reflecting adults and our culture,…