Potential Style Models for Coursework

Style Models:

-Consent in the LGBT community and how it is abused (e.g. Kevin Spacey and his coming out to avoid accusation)

http://www.gender-focus.com/2015/08/22/consent-queer-community/  -We need to do a better job talking about consent in the LGBT community

– By Felix is (a twenty-something trans man from Nanaimo), August 2015, Gender Focus

– Talks about the gender roles involved in sexual assault and how, even though there are problems involved with consent and heterosexual people; they will still always have people or bouncers backing them up.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/11/01/how_calling_kevin_spacey_a_pedophile_hurts_the_gay_community.html - How Calling Kevin Spacey a Paedophile Hurts the Gay Community

- By Joseph Fischel, November 2017, Slate

– How Spacey coming out to avoid criticism for sexual harassment basically threw the LGBT community under the bus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/30/kevin-spacey-has-set-gay-rights-back-actor-blasted-for-response-to-sexual-misconduct-claim/?utm_term=.130899602527 - ‘Kevin Spacey has set gay rights back’: Actor blasted for response to sexual misconduct claim

-By Amy B Wang and Elahe Izadi , October 2017, The Washington Post

-People’s reactions to Spacey using the LGBT community as a shield from the accusations made against him – particularly anger and disappointment

-Can people with opposing political views be friends?

https://www.ted.com/talks/caitlin_quattromani_and_lauran_arledge_how_our_friendship_survives_our_opposing_politics  - How our friendship survives our opposing politics

– By Caitlin Quattromani and Lauran Arledge, July 2017, TedTalks

–‘ For two best friends who think very differently about politics, the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election could have resulted in hostility and disrespect. Hear about how they chose to engage in dialogue instead -- and learn some simple tactics they're using to maintain their bipartisan friendship.’

– A talk on how to improve a friendship that can be strained by different beliefs.

-Sexual violence in the LGBT community and how it is often ignored

http://www.nclrights.org/sexual-assault-in-the-lgbt-community/ - Sexual assault in the LGBT community

-By Lauren Paulk, April 2014, National Centre for Lesbian Rights

-‘April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This month is a reminder that through a combination of stigma and myths, sexual assault in the LGBT community is often rendered invisible or dismissed outright, despite CDC statistics that show the sexual assault rate for LGBT individuals is comparable or higher than the sexual assault rate for heterosexual individuals.’

-An article that highlights how sexual abuse is often disregarded or ignored when it happens to LGBT individuals, particularly women who sleep with women

-Why Britain should teach students more about safe sex (particularly sex between two people of the same gender)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/01/23/sex-relationships-education-needs-become-compulsory-schools/ - Why sex and relationships education needs to become compulsory in all schools

-By Imogen Rohrs, January 2017, The Telegraph

-Parliament has just voted against legislation that would make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in all schools in the UK. This is despite three-quarters of young people believing compulsory SRE would make them feel safer, according to research conducted by charity Barnardo's, and nearly one third of teenage girls having experienced sexual violence in their relationships, according to research by the NSPCC

-An article that highlights how girls are often put through ‘unwanted touching’ at school and students are left completely uneducated on how to get out of abusive relationships and how compulsory sex/relationship education would improve this

https://humanism.org.uk/2017/06/27/lgbt-inclusive-relationships-and-sex-education-not-yet-the-norm-in-schools-new-report-finds/ - LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education not yet the norm in schools, new report finds

-June 2017, Humanists UK

-An article about how the majority of UK schools do not have sufficient sex education for LGBT pupils (particularly faith schools) and the effect this has on them (e.g. bullying).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/compulsory-sex-education-human-rights-campaigners-government-loophole-faith-school-get-out-clause-a7608226.html - Compulsory sex education: Human rights campaigners criticise government over faith school 'get-out clause'

-Rachael Pells, March 2017, The Independent

-An article about the ‘get out’ clause that allows faith schools to opt out of educating students on sexual LGBT relationships and coming out. They may also choose to teach about how they believe LGBT relationships are abominable or unnatural.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/07/12/95-of-young-people-didnt-receive-lgbt-inclusive-sex-ed-classes/ - 95% of young people didn’t receive LGBT-inclusive sex ed classes

-Nick Duffy, July 2016, Pink News

-‘The findings show that sex and relationship education (SRE) is usually limited to biological topics like reproduction, body parts and heterosexual sex, with LGBT issues not making it onto the agenda.

According to THT, 75% of respondents reported they had not been taught about consent, 95% had not learned about LGBT sex and relationships, 89% were not taught about sex and pleasure and 97% missed out on any discussion around gender identity.

59% of respondents did not receive information on HIV in school or did not remember if they had done.’

-An article about the lack of sex education that leaves generations unarmed when it comes to LGBT issues, unhealthy relationships, gender identity and consent

-Jacob Rees-Mogg and Abortion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41176953 - Jacob Rees-Mogg ignites fresh row over abortion

– Brian Wheeler, September 2017, BBC News

- He is against it in all cases, even when a woman has been raped but acknowledges that the law does not fit his view so women must have the right to an abortion