Smidge of Sex Ed — Birth Control

For many people with menstrual cycles we were never taught how to understand them. Cycle tracking is a practice that can offer great insight into menstrual cycles and though there are apps that can do the work for us, knowing the how-tos on our own makes a world of a difference. This article gives you a crash course in cycle tracking that all middle school sex ed classes should have had on the same day as the period lesson.

September 26th is World Contraceptive Day, and though it is a “holiday,” the conversations around contraceptives are not very common, nor are they very honest. That is not the way things should be, so I want to get into the nitty-gritty of contraceptives. First, let’s start with what contraceptives are. Contraceptives are most commonly referred to as birth control as they are made to prevent pregnancy. I would like to point out that not only women get pregnant. Gender non-conforming individuals, transgender individuals, gender fluid/queer individuals, and men can get pregnant. Gender is not the same as sex, and someone’s sex...