Minister’s Panel on Education

Have something to say about Education in Nova Scotia? The Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development has created a panel to discuss education in Nova Scotia. #183768988 / gettyimages.com The Sexual Health Centre believes that it’s important to have discussions about the state of sexual health education in our schools. Therefore, we highly encourage …

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Seeking study participants: Queer Birthing Relationships

This study is an examination of gendered and queer practices at the intersection of birthing, which historically and institutionally has been heteronormatively constructed. While providers are caring and well-intended in their provision of clinical care, they often have little recognition of the pervasiveness in which systemic heteronormativity permeates healthcare, and how this translates into negative …

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May is International Masturbation Month

May is International Masturbation Month. The first IMM was created in 1995, after feminist and queer-positive sex shop Good Vibrations, decided to do something in honour of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders who was fired by President Bill Clinton after she made comments in support of talking about masturbation.  Masturbation is something that many people do, and is an important and healthy part of many people’s …

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Statement of Solidarity from the Nova Scotia Association for Sexual Health

Nova Scotia Association for Sexual Health May 1, 2014 The Nova Scotia Association for Sexual Health (NSASH) stands in solidarity with the Mogentaler Clinic in Fredericton, as wells with the many pro-choice activists who are working to change the laws in New Brunswick that make access to abortion difficult. The clinic is closing because the …

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