It's #WorldAIDSDay, & I am first & foremost, an AIDS historian. Mainly I work on the history of activism & education. So that means writing about how @BrookCharity told heterosexual teenagers about HIV & safer-sex in the 1980s. #histsex #histchild

https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkaa034/5912146
It means writing about the history of the dental dam & queer women's safer sex practices. #histsex #WorldAIDSDay https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-slippery-history-of-the-dental-dam/
The Slippery History of the Dental Dam

As an object, the dental dam awkwardly straddles the history of AIDS activism and queer sexuality, acting as an assertion that sex doesn’t require the presence of a penis to be real sex, while ackn…

https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-slippery-history-of-the-dental-dam/
It means writing about that time in 1995 Grange Hill had an HIV storyline aimed at combatting stigma & showing how useless Conservative sex education policies were. #WorldAIDSDay #histsex #histchild
https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/tcbh/hwaa002/5811124
It means writing about why the Tombstone campaign contributed to stigma. #WorldAIDSDay #histsex https://placingthepublic.lshtm.ac.uk/2018/05/20/remembering-the-dont-die-of-ignorance-campaign/
Remembering the ‘Don’t Die of Ignorance’ campaign - Placing the Public in Public Health: Public...

Remembering and thinking critically about the ‘Don’t Die of Ignorance’ campaign An ‘It’s more complicated...

https://placingthepublic.lshtm.ac.uk/2018/05/20/remembering-the-dont-die-of-ignorance-campaign/
And finally, it means writing about how we've always found ways to do sex education well, even when people try to stop us. #WorldAIDSDay #LGBTQ #histsex https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WxZnZyQAAPoF1PS8
Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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