The Curbside Prophet
I am a mid-twenties avid intersectional feminist, advocate, fighter, counselor, and friend. I will be graduating from Bucknell University in May with degrees in Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies. I work with survivors of sexual assault and other trauma, and I fix computers for a living.
I often blog about what it is like to live at the intersections of a few different mental illnesses, queerness, and sexuality, along with posts about sexism, racism, rape culture, and LGBT rights. There is a trigger warning for these on my entire blog. You will see posts about depression, eating disorders, PTSD, panic disorder, and fat activism. This has been my safe space for four years now, and I reserve the right to ask you to leave it if necessary.
Welcome to my life.
Cognition final. Yes, this was my actual answer.
“4. What do traditional intervention programs try to do? Why do they fail?
Traditional intervention programs are aimed at “scaring teens straight,”
i.e. showing disgusting slides of sexually transmitted infections to a
group of students to convince them that, in the words of Mean Girls (2004),
“You’re going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But
if you do touch each other, you *will* get chlamydia… and die,” which is
highly ineffective compared with giving teens information about how to
actually have safe sex. They fail because teenagers without adequate
knowledge will pursue risky behaviors because they are not well informed
about how to approach them, only about the consequences.”
