Digital Health Literacy Campaign
What Is Sex, Anyway?
Co-Director Chloe Morris
Co-Director Alejandra Castellanos
Across six weeks, The Sexual Health Exploration Project partnered with community organizations, scholars, practitioners, and people with lived experience, to build a 101-level digital curriculum in intimacy, sexuality, and relationships. Guiding engagers through the various types of intimacies and relationship styles that exist, to better understanding the depth and breadth of the sexuality prism (identities, desires, behaviors, and outcomes), to assessing whether or not a relationship is “working” the way you need it to, and more, the galleries below showcase the end result of approximately 150 hours of preparation, planning, coordination, team building, and online engagement.
Nearly every post was associated with a resource or linked educational item. As you explore each gallery, you will stumble upon a grid post inviting you to “sexplore further with us.” You can click that image to deepen your understanding of the topic and continue your learning journey.
Dr. Shanna Katz Kattari, Associate Professor Social Work at The University of Michigan and director of the [Sexuality|Relationships|Gender] Research Collective, shares more about how relationships are often shaped and impacted by access needs, and that access intimacy can be both challenging and magical.
Rahim Thawer, MSW, RSW, CCS challenges us to not think of relationships as “healthy” or “unhealthy,” but rather to develop the skills and tools necessary to know when a relationship is working (for us) and when it is not.
Dr. Sami Schalk, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares what we can all learn from challenging ableism and sanism in our approaches to sexual autonomy.
Yvonne Venegas, LCSW and former clinic administrator at The Kind Clinic in San Antonio, TX (a part of Texas Health Action’s network) discusses the little acknowledged reality of/for HIV+ women.
Campaign Effectiveness and Impact
Our educational content was viewed by more than 5400 people across it’s six-week run. This includes more than 400 likes, 77 shares, and 98 bookmarks/saves. We increased our followers by 60% and received nearly two dozen additional newsletter sign-ups during this period.