Cross-posted at Sadie Magazine

If you know me at all, you’re aware that abstinence-only sex education, or even preachy abstinence-plus sex education, is a huge pet peeve of mine. I’ve always been boggled by how much information about sex our culture witholds from teenagers, exactly when it’s needed most—when they’re becoming newly independent, curious, and sexual. [...]

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For obvious reasons, Emma and I didn’t hit up Hawaii on our cross-country adventure. So I figured I’d give it a lil’ love right now. Girl Fest Hawaii fights against violence against women during a week-long extravaganza of art, music, and workshops. In Girl Fest’s own words, their mission is to “change peer culture…through education, [...]

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…for a few more days. I haven’t had one millisecond to blog about anything intelligent. I do have some plans in the works, like a whole week of spotlighting young female activists/feminists in the South. And in the meantime, I can keep feeding you Girldrive-worthy links:
Judy Berman at Broadsheet discusses how race, weight, and body [...]

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Check out 25-year-old Miriam Perez’s revamped blog, Radical Doula, whose new elements include a resource page and profiles page of the doulas featured on the site. This blog always makes me think, and does a good job of bridging “mom activism,” feminism, and young women (who, as I’ve said before, should really give a shit [...]

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Girldrive interviewee and smarty-pants founder of OrganicNation.tv Dorothee Royal-Hedinger highlights the role of women in agriculture this week. She interviews Leigh Adcock, the executive director of the Women, Food & Agriculture Network, at Farm Aid 2009 in Maryland Heights, MS. They chat about how women own roughly half of the farmland in the U.S. (or [...]

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Girldrive interviewee, accomplished jewelry maker, social activist, and my BFF Sadye Vassil, along with Chelsea Smith and Zoila Sylvester are having their first Ladies Leaders Lovers event this weekend in NYC.
Ladies Leaders Lovers is definitely Girldrive-ish: it’s “dedicated to building a multi-functioning network of diverse professional women. One event at a time.” The series is [...]

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Been spending lots of time on Feministe, ’specially since I’ve been guest-blogging there since Monday. Emily Sullivan from Equal Writes has an interesting piece up about bikeriding across the country both with her female friend and alone. An excerpt:
Trading stories with other bike tourists made it obvious to me that my adventure was quite different. [...]

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FUFAration, Female United For Action’s study circle for 20-something women and genderqueers, really knows what’s good with intergenerational connection. In honor of Jane Addams’ birthday, which will be celebrated tonight at the Hull-House Museum in Chicago, they are reading a speech given by the keynote speaker of the event and veteran anti-racist activist and feminist [...]

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In honor of Obama’s Congressional speech on health care tonight, I’m putting the spotlight on the NOLA-based Women With A Vision. WWAV is a health education organization dedicating to promoting wellness for women, particularly young women and girls of color. The organization has workshops on grassroots organizing, queer political history in New Orleans, Safer Sex [...]

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