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		<title>Why Kids Need Extracurricular Sex Ed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lo Sharkey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lo is the founder of The Butterfly Academy, an extracurricular sex ed organization for kids and their caregivers. Think of all the ways we as parents and guardians try to broaden our kids’ horizons when we&#8217;re able to. We might: sign them up for sports so they stay healthy with exercise and learn the importance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Check Out Lo’s Org: The Butterfly Academy!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lo Sharkey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, a series of big events occurred, one right after the other, that profoundly shifted my career goals: That perfect storm made it painfully clear that we as a country and a culture are not where we need to be in the sex-education department. Sure, adults need sex ed too, but maybe [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Give a Sex Ed Lesson at a Slumber Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lo Sharkey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A dad friend of mine, who&#8217;d read my recent piece on making sexual assault in the news a teachable moment for kids, forwarded me the following tweet from Andi Zeisler while I was in the middle of my 11-year-old&#8217;s birthday slumber party: The 4th-grade boys coming to my kid&#8217;s slumber party tonight are really in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>8 Things You Should Know About Consent on College Campuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 2017 article written by Sarah Marcantonio, then a student at Emerson University in Boston Consent (noun): Permission, approval or agreement. Here&#8217;s my definition of sexual consent: two (or more) people actively, explicitly and consciously agreeing to have sexual interactions throughout those interactions, with no party having any reservations at any point. I was taught, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Best Transgender Books for Kids</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Em &#38; Lo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy International Trans Visibility Day (March 31st)! Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not all balloons and supportive hugs: Trump&#8217;s list of discriminatory actions against the transgender community so far is too long to list in a single post. Him rescinding the Obama administration&#8217;s federal guidelines for schools to allow kids to use the public bathrooms that match their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Harsh Reality of Religion-Driven Sex Ed in America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pantsuit Nation, the private Facebook group of around 4 million members, was originally created as online camaraderie for Hillary Clinton supporters in the 2016 election but has since morphed into a sort of support group for progressives facing trying times under the Trump administration. The following is a recent post to the group from a midwestern parent who gave us [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 Practical Ways Parents Can Fight Rape Culture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lo Sharkey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The powerful, unapologetic, detailed statement of Brock Turner&#8217;s rape victim made public recently touched a collective nerve, resulting in a huge outcry on social media about the rape culture that left him convicted of three sexual assault felonies but only serving 6 months in jail. The outcry, which has already begun to fade, has often [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teaching Kids They Can’t Say “No”?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 23:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Utah excels at socializing male supremacy and female acquiescence. While students at Kanesville Elementary in West Haven, UT, were not required to take part in the Valentine&#8217;s Day sixth-grade dance, those participating would be asked to fill out a dance card with the names of students with whom they wanted to dance — anyone whose [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Terms Every Parent Should Add to Their Sex-Ed Vocabulary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Em &#38; Lo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cory Silverberg is elevating in-home sex-ed to an art form, one kick-ass book at a time. His first kids&#8217; book on reproduction, called WHAT MAKES A BABY&#160;(for preschoolers through 2nd-graders), combines inclusive language, helpful descriptions, and bright, bold and beautiful illustrations by&#160;Fiona Smyth (that get us all nostalgic for &#8220;Free to Be You and Me&#8220;) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Defense of Maleficent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lo Sharkey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the sequel to 2014’s “Maleficent” — “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” — is currently out in theaters, my family just rewatched the first one. Five years ago, “Maleficent,” starring Angelina Jolie, received a green-splat score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a&#160;review by the Chicago Sun Times’ Richard Roeper&#160;calling it “plodding and utterly unconvincing.” But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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