Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, is being used to frame a new official sexual education class at Colgate University.
Colgate University has introduced an official sexual education class on campus. "Yes Means Yes" is a series of five non-credit classes held on Wednesday evenings over dinner from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The topic of discussion will be Colgate's "hook-up culture," what one wants in a relationship, how to navigate one's own sexuality better and how to help others with these areas. Facilitators will focus on the formative novel, Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape.Berger selected Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape, written by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, to emphasize positive sexuality and consensual sex. An individual chapter is assigned for each week's discussion in order to have a strong foundation for conversation and plenty of participation.
As a contributor to Yes Means Yes I'm by no means impartial, but I think the book rocks and has coverage of issues I would have loved to talk about in college.
Way to go Colgate!
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That's so awesome! I'm reading the book right now and it's fantastic.
I'm so moved I'm at a loss for words. Our editors and my co-contributors created one absolute rockstar of a book.
As an alumna of Colgate's nearby rival college, I'd just like to say well done, Colgate.
Step up, Hamilton College.
Funny, it didn't read like a "novel" when I read it...
But yeah, seeing this in curricula is great. If only it were targeted slightly younger, though, than college.
AHHH! I'm a sophomore at Colgate University, and I'm in that program helping to co-lead some of the material. Yay!!! =D
AHHH! I'm a sophomore at Colgate University, and I'm in that program!!! Yay!!! =D
AHHH! I'm a sophomore at Colgate University, and I'm in that program!!! Yay!!! =D
Yay! I'm a sopohmore at Colgate University and I'm in that class. Woo! =D
I'm a Colgate alum and I've never been prouder! When I was a student I was involved with the Sexual Crisis Resource Center and at the time I thought we were pretty cutting edge - we did workshops on communicating sexual boundaries as well as the standard condom on the banana training. I'm so glad to hear that Colgate is continuing to reach out to students and offer opportunities to discuss these issues.
We don't have the Sexual Crisis Resource Center anymore. But we're trying hard to create something like it with different organizations in place of it.
What the hell? They named a university after toothpaste? Hmmm. I prefer a Crest University myself.
lame
I knew that name reminded me of a brand of some sort...