sexuality

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Why I Practice Ethical Non-Monogamy

I felt so much guilt and shame while going through this typical development stage. I was naturally a seeker. My culture, my faith, and my generation felt very limited.

  • 02/28/2022
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Queer Health & Relational Healing

The sex education that youth are typically taught in schools is not comprehensive. It often focuses on abstinence only, which

  • 05/25/2021
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Invisibility in the Silence of Grief, Loss, and Rage

“If we do not move past the dysfunction in our communities, there will continue to be victimization.”

  • 03/25/2021
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Future Design: Intimacies

Do I trust this new person enough to actually touch them? Enough to send a naked picture? Enough to tell them where I am?

  • 01/21/2021
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Sex, Sexuality, and Aging

Sex and sexuality shift over the course of a person’s life. says Laura Rademacher, LMFT and certified sex therapist. “One

  • 08/25/2020
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Family Tree Clinic: Teaching Intimacy

__ At the St. Paul-based Family Tree Clinic, sex education is wildly different than the paradigm that most of us

  • 07/24/2020
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Indigenous Roots

When MaryAnne Quiroz discovered she had the opportunity to open an arts and cultural center in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff

  • 12/23/2019
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21 Grams

The weight of the soul is supposedly 21 grams. That is why a designer chose to put 21 grams of

  • 12/23/2019
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Putting the Healthy Into Sexuality

Montoya-Barthelemy is passionate about helping communities find a holistic approach to sexual and reproductive health. As she puts it, “Sexual health is life force.”

  • 11/26/2019
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The Lion Dressed as the Elephant in the Room

It is difficult to normalize sexuality for those with disabilities when neither sexuality nor disability is normalized to begin with.

  • 09/25/2019
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WeARE The Clinic

There was a time when opening an independent family planning clinic seemed like a lofty goal for a small group

  • 12/01/2017

2011 Changemaker: Candy Hadsall

“Is it acceptable to have 15,000 cases of chlamydia and no one speaks up about it?”

  • 12/02/2011