Sexual Harassment
Why you need to be following the news about Sam Pepper, a discussion of the YouTube community and teen culture
Teen culture and celebrity is dominated these days by a force that many adults don’t pay enough attention to: YouTube. YouTube isn’t just a place where Tweens and Teens go to watch the latest music video, it is producing legitimate stars who make a serious amount of cash. YouTube culture is so big that the […]
Sunday Reflections: Time to Not Be Nice
I really like Amy Poehler. I like the things that she stands for, and I adore Smart Girls at the Party so much that I’ve used it in programming and recommended it to teachers, parents, and teens. They have DIY projects and action campaigns, they highlight women in fields like science and computers, they have blogs […]
Friday Finds – July 26, 2013
This week at TLT: This week’s Sunday Reflections discusses the presence of violence in YA and why it’s important. We have book reviews of: Infinity Glass by Myra McEntire The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry Heather and Karen took a group of teens to the Simon […]
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April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And we had a lot to say about it. The bottom line, no means no (and silence doesn’t mean yes). That should be the message – always. It’s what we need to be teaching all people, both boys and girls, at all ages. Respecting others is at the heart […]
Saturday Thoughts: Going Backwards
I really don’t know what to think this week. I don’t know where we’re going as a society when we can’t hold people accountable for their actions because “they don’t know what they’re doing” or victims are “enticing them with what they’re wearing.” I know that we as a culture are growing less empathetic due […]
Things They Don’t Teach You in Library School: Sexual Harassment? Yes, it can happen in the library
In my now almost 20 years as a librarian, I have either directly or indirectly been involved in numerous incidents of people viewing porn on the computer and, more disturbingly, 5 men being caught masturbating in the library. One of those times occurred in my YA area and the person in question left behind “physical […]
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