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Fat folks have unique needs when it comes to body care and we often aren’t ever taught what those needs are. This guide is here to help fix that. It’s here to walk you through some of the starting steps I took for myself that revolutionized the way I cared for my fat body, especially my skin.

Find out more about the text-based content, direct services, resources, outreach, mentoring and leadership we provide.

Maybe you’ve noticed: there’s been a shift in how people and movements that are anti-trans present themselves. I’m going to go over some of the clues that a resource or person’s only concern is directing people away from trans-affirming care and towards harmful, anti-trans spaces or approaches.

A donor-advised fund is a way to dedicate portions of your wealth to a fund which pays out over time, and continues to donate when you pass away. Consider setting this up for Scarleteen!

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We are wholly independent media without state, federal or institutional funding, so the best way for most people to contribute to Scarleteen is to donate!

Whether you’re looking for information or help for yourself, want to read or take part in a group discussion, or offer up support for others, you can talk to staff, volunteers, and peers on the boards. They’re open 24/7 most days of the year, and are actively moderated for everyone’s safety and security.

Advice questions with in-depth responses from our fantastic writers are the OG Scarleteen format. Although we read every submission, only some will result in replies or published columns, so for immediate and guaranteed answers, you can submit your question to our other services, too.

Want to get in touch with us through email? This is how!

Here’s all our organizational news, fundraisers, service updates, and commentary or public statements about current events.

We feel sexuality education for young people is best guided by things like respect for young people’s own agency and self-knowledge, diversity and inclusion, cultural sensitivity, consent, liberty, listening, ingenuity and creativity, accuracy, flexibility, care and other aspects or expressions of our core values and aims.

In 1998, Heather Corinna started answering emails young people sent them asking for information about and help with sex and relationships. Their answers, and how Scarleteen was built and run thereafter, included their background in learner-centered education, in creative writing and design, and their life experience as a queer, progressive, community service-minded and profoundly sex-positive person.

There’s a lot of great, trustworthy information and help outside Scarleteen. Some of those resources help with things we do, others provide things we don’t.

Here you’ll find the highlights and history of our media appearances and mentions, as well as how (and if) to contact us if you’d like to get our take, feature us or otherwise talk with us for all kinds of media.

I am an autistic, genderfluid lesbian, and I experience these identifiers as tightly intertwined.

You’ve landed on our always-expanding glossary! We hope it serves you well and answers all of your elucidatory desires!

Want to read books or zines by our staff, volunteers, writers, artists or partners? You’ll find a list of them here!

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real.

Scarleteen Confidential is a series written for parents and other supportive adults where we share what young people have shared with us.

Quickies are simplified versions of some of our most-read, best-loved content made for those with learning disabilities, young users, or those new to sex ed.

Feel like you haven’t quite found your footing in the bedroom yet? Join the club. Exploring sex and sexuality is a lifelong process; it’s impossible to ever have it all figured out, especially right out of the gate. It’s also hard to feel confident about something shiny and new, whatever it is…

We explore mainstream porn in this piece: media available for free on tube sites, and that isn’t explicitly or intentionally feminist, queer, or alternative.

Sexual trauma impacts the mind and body in unique ways, and it can leave footprints in the form of physical, mental, and emotional impacts.

Polyamory, sometimes called non-monogamy or open relationships, is a big subject with a lot to talk about, so we’ll start at the beginning: with a definition. You’ll see it defined a lot of ways, but here’s one we like: Being interested in or pursuing intimate relationships (emotional and/or sexual)…

This is not the be-all-end-all guide to sex and disability because a) it’s not, and b) there just can’t ever be such a thing with any guide to sex. This series, much like your entire sexual life, is a work in progress and an endless, ongoing conversation. We hope this can be a good place for you to…