Sex Panic!: When Educators Are Censors

Who should have a say in a college student’s sex education?”

Where: Brown University’s Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Address: 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI Google Maps
Cost: FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dress code: Casual or business-casual only. No fetish wear, please.

Join Brown Prof. Jim Green and his panel of sexperts including sex educator Megan Andelloux, CuddleParty founder Reid Mihalko, sexual freedom community organizer maymay, and Sexual health Education and Empowerment Council (SHEEC) Chairperson Aida Manduley as they discuss the role of students, educators, institutions, and censorship in how sex education gets brought and taught to today’s college campuses.

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This panel is sponsored by the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council, which is doing fantastic work at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It’s the organization that not only sponsored KinkForAll Providence, but also produced Sex Week 2010, which featured sessions lead by the “Sex Education Warrior Queen” Megan Andelloux and other accredited sexuality educators like Shanna Katz, and just this week brought Sinclair Sexsmith to talk about “Fucking With Gender 2.0”, which all aim to empower other students to learn about and stand up for their sexual freedoms and rights. I think SHEEC along with Brown University should be lauded for so openly supporting its students rights to organize peacefully and create events like these.

Unfortunately, SHEEC’s events and its hardworking Chairperson, Aida Manduley, have been repeatedly criticized by certain alums, notably Margaret Brooks, who, along with Professor of Women’s Studies Donna M. Hughes, published numerous “bulletins” insinuating that participants at SHEEC’s events are criminals. Therefore, SHEEC put together this somewhat academic-styled panel to discuss things. Moreover, and perfectly aligned with the principles of inspiring conversation that KinkForAll so strongly supports, I learned that Aida has even personally invited Margaret Brooks, Donna M. Hughes, and Hughes’s associate, Melanie Shapiro, to attend in the hopes of fostering a dialogue!