Recent Posts Tagged With 'health and safety'

• World AIDS Day

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 05:06 in hiv, aids, health and safety, hiv aids, world aids day, avert, mtct, children and aids

  Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has impacted many people we know and many communities of which we are part. Since this is a parenting blog, however, I want to do what I have done in previous years, and highlight some recent statistics about AIDS and ch...

• Dr. Susan Love Recruits a Gay and Trans Army Against Breast Cancer

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 13:13 in breast cancer, l word, the l word, health and safety, breast cancer awareness, susan love, army of women, dr. susan love

  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I haven’t posted much about it because I tend to take a skeptical view of the pink bandwagon that gets rolling this time of year. Nothing wrong with raising awareness and money, but some breast cancer s...

• New Books Showcase Stories of LGBTQ Youth

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 09:05 in education, crisis, health and safety, mitchell gold

  (I’ve been meaning to write about these books for a while, and back-to-school time is giving me the motivation I need.) Ongoing incidents of students (and teachers!) harassing LGBTQ students, students perceived to be LGBTQ, and children of LGBT...

• Organizing for Safe Schools in Minnesota

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 18:18 in education, minnesota, health and safety, outfront mn, anoka-hennepin school district, phil duran, robin mavis

  I posted a blurb in my last LGBT Parenting Roundup about the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, which agreed to pay a $25,000 settlement to the family of a high school junior after two teachers harassed the boy in the classroom about his pe...

• How Do I Talk to My Kids About Safe Sex?

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 05:05 in parenting, youth, safe sex, coming out, health and safety, serena freewomyn

  [Editor's Note: A reader left a comment on a post I wrote last fall about LGBT resources for teens. She wanted to know about safe-sex resources for her bi daughter. Blogger Serena Freewomyn, who has been a youth counselor and founded the Feminists fo...