Head and Hands

Jos: Youth Power

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"I can go into a classroom and ask the teacher to leave and watch everybody just let their hair down and relax and talk about things in front of me."

Jos: Defining Youth

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"If we can get in there and work with people, and give them skills and information and opportunities, I think that’s so exciting. And it’s way more exciting than working with forty-year-olds because they don’t get it. They might not get the same thing out of it."

Jos: Motivation and Recruiting

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"People just love the idea of teaching good sex ed, like quality sex ed that has a bit of different spin to it than maybe what they got in high school because maybe they were queer themselves and they felt really left out by the sex ed they were being taught, or maybe they found that sex education was problematic in other ways, and so I find that a lot of people want to kind of give back to people who are bit younger than them."

Jos: Negotiating Empowerment

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"Because we all have this idea in our heads, this concept of what youth empowerment is, and yes, we do have program objectives, and we sit down and hash them at meetings, and we plan out what this is, what’s it going to look like, and we have our own ideals and everything. But it never actually shapes up that way when you’re working with human beings, and youth are very self-directed, motivated people."

Jos: Why Media and Sex Ed?

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"I think it lends accessability to sexual education so if you can have a video that you make, and if we can put it up on Youtube and put it on our website or something and you can show it to all your friends, you can screen it your classroom or at your school or where have you, and wherever, then that’s really exciting."