What’s Your Throughline?

I’ve been helping her with idea refinement, but especially her throughline.

She’s a sexologist but her idea worth spreading is about sexual and reproductive justice for all.

Growing up in Indiana with a lesbian mother, there was no outlet or safety for her mother to be open and have conversations about her sexuality.

When a high school star athlete pushed himself on Michelle, there was no one having conversations with her nor the boy, to let them know this should not happen in the way it did.

When she was dancer for seven years, she believed that feminine power solely resided in being sexy. She thought that by being desired, she was a real woman, and tolerated the abuse for seven years. There was no one there to have conversations with her to let her know there is more to attraction than purely sex.

When an older man admitted that he felt sick about what he and his college buddies used to brag about in college, he realized there was no one having conversations with these young men to tell them they were wrong about what they were doing to women.

Do you see the theme?

Throughline is when a central thread is established between each and every point you make during a talk, presentation, or speech.

You have to make it clear, you have to bring people back to the main idea over and over, otherwise people may miss it.

Her throughline to me is clear.

That having conversations around sexuality and reproduction will create awareness of the issues, and comprehensive inclusive sexual education should start early and happen, resulting in sexual and reproductive justice for all.

These conversations are for everyone regardless of gender, sexual affiliation, ethnicity, and status. The conversations should happen between peers, parents, teachers, and certainly those in power to reinforce these issues with policies.

Her call to action will be for legislators and educators to include more conversations around these issues within their sexual education programs, and make change.

Can’t wait for TEDxHarlem on March 21! Karen Pilgrim I wish you could be there. Justin Shaifer you around bruh?

Shout out and thank you to DrDan Young for all that you do for the TEDx community, and inherently, the world.

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