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This week, Roe v. Wade got overturned. I'm sending love to all of you who can get pregnant or are dealing with shit right now.

You don't deserve this. Everybody else, I hope that we are donating to abortion funds or posting about our solidarity and letting our friends know friends in other states know that they can come stay with us.

Don't invite brandos. There are orgs for that. You can donate to those two. This episode is not about reproductive rights.

We are talking about early childhood sex education and it's amazing and it's necessary right now because if they're going to take away our rights, the least we can do is keep educating each other and the next generation so that they can have better relationships.

Relationships with themselves, each other. We have other episodes on Patreon that I was going to put out this week if all of my electronics had not broken. Go check them out. It's only $5.

If not, go spend that money on an abortion fund. If you can do both, do both. Why not?

Support each other. Stay safe out there and enjoy this episode.

Hello, she is here. Are you ready? I can't find my mic. Will your zoom sound be okay? Maybe? Hello? Hi. This is Robin. I'm looking for my mic right now and I can't find it.

Hello. How's it going? Hi. How are you? So Mariah and I met on this panel at Oxford FEMFEST. Yeah.

Remy, can you switch your mic to laptop, please? I would do that. The little up arrow next to the mute button. Is that better? Yeah. Cool. Okay. I'm so excited. Welcome. Mariah, CadiO.

Hello. Let's just get everyone acquainted with you and like your line of work. So my name is Mariah. I'm Latnex. I'm bisexual and I'm a sex educator currently in Oakland, California.

So I teach comprehensive sex education in schools to young people, primarily middle school, high school and puberty age. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. It's really fun. It's a fun job.

It's so really important. Yeah. And I also develop digital sex education curriculum alongside a nonprofit org. And then I run the sex ed files, which is both a tick talk and Instagram space for sex education to continue as we then just in the classroom.

So I think that it can be accessible. Yes. Exactly. And how did you start doing that? Is this something that you grew up with with comprehensive sex ed and we're able to pass on? Or is it something that like you were lacking and wanted to find a hole to fill more so that because I did not grow up with sex education at all.

So information. I didn't have access to information. I actually grew up in a very religious community and also very conservative family. So on top of that, it was really not allowed to talk about it.

That definitely has a big like part to do with why I'm in this field and why I chose to work in sex education. But I love working with youth and I always have in the sense of like community centered education where like the community is at the heart of it rather than like someone coming in as the expert.

And I see like the community and young people as the experts and that's kind of their perspective. I've always held kind of like a taking a village. Definitely. Yeah, because I feel like with a lot of educational programs.

They have this kind of dynamic where there's one leader or expert in you have to listen to them and they have all of the information and resources. Whereas a lot of the times like communities have that knowledge or are the experts are doing things that are already helpful for the community itself.

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