Sentences with phrase «sexual identity at»

This time, it focuses on teenage sex, bullying, and sexual identity at a private high school.

Not exact matches

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, of the top 50 federal contractors, 86 % prohibit sexual orientation - based discrimination, while 61 % have banned discriminatory practices based on gender identity.

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law Tuesday released a report summarizing academic studies and other documented evidence of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.

For them, at last, there would be some kind of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding lives, some language in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric by which it could be explained - not in terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but in terms of their future life stories, their potential loves, their eventual chance at some kind of constructive happiness.»

Jenell Paris is professor of anthropology at Messiah College and the author of The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to Define Who We Are (InterVarsity Press).

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

Coming out, I stake my sexual identity on the claim which I hold to be the gospel at its heart: that we are here to love God and our neighbors as ourselves.

He has not said to young people that sexuality is at the core of their personal identity and that sexual activity is not to be engaged in casually and without commitment.

At that point, the person has stated their belief, their intentions are to never have gay sex, and so therapy (ISSI calls is sexual identity therapy, or SIT) begins.

It is a source of great frustration because even though women, people of color, and people of various sexual orientations and identities are raising their voices and sometimes being heard, those at the control center are straight white men who may be or pretend to be sympathetic to their voices but are unable or unwilling to change the landscape because they're hopelessly entangled in it.

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It's a framework that, in its fullest conception, contains psychological appreciation that is at once deeper, more supple and more holistic than the reductive sexual identity assumptions that anchor mere sexual therapy, be it one of conversion or acceptance.

Having looked at the Reiner and Meyer studies, we in the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Department eventually concluded that human sexual identity is mostly built into our constitution by the genes we inherit and the embryogenesis we undergo.

Whether we work in the universities, in the churches, or in the trenches, whether we are physicists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, gurus, or spiritual questers of various sorts, and regardless of our gender, race, or sexual, national or ethnic identity, is there an invariable or common pattern to the processes at work in spiritual quests?

Anything subtler — like a feminine love of cooking or tendency to cry at the movies or unsuppressable maternal instinct or cultivation of a wardrobe that will turn heads or even a passionate good - night kiss — is deemed an inadequate demonstration of sexual identity.

The youngster is not only at a stage of sexual exploration, an innocent in search of his sexual identity, but he's also often in rebellion against his parents, bent on taking risks.

Amy Cody (Parent Education Manager at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts) has been incredibly generous in sharing her educational expertise over the last few months (be sure to read her articles on how to talk to kids / teens about sex and relationships, pornography, and consensual sex) and I'm thrilled that she was receptive to sharing her wisdom about how to talk to kids about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Many resources aimed at older students focus on LGBTQ youth, but most also have applicability to children of LGBTQ parents, whatever the children's sexual orientation or gender identity.

New York has an opportunity to leverage its resources to ensure a seat at the table for all New Yorkers, regardless of color, creed, sexual orientation, or gender identity,» Hoylman said.

Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn denies she meant her barb at Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday as an attack on the new gubernatorial candidate's sexual identity.

At the same time, Cuomo wants to end taxpayer - funded settlements for sexual harassment and ban confidentiality as long as the survivor's identity is protected.

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred revealed the identity of another woman accusing Trump of «inappropriate sexual conduct»: Karena Virginia, a yoga teacher and «inspirational speaker» who says the nominee groped her during a chance encounter at the US Open in 1998.

At 2 p.m., Rep. Carolyn Maloney, co-chair of the House Census Caucus, will be joined by CEO of the LGBT Network David Kilmnick to speak out against the Commerce Department's decision to reverse its plan to add questions to the 2020 census regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, 1651 3rd Ave., Suite 311, Manhattan.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

While the authors of the New Atlantis article are not this crude and overtly bigoted in their conclusions, according to geneticist Dean Hamer, emeritus at the National Institutes of Health, «it is a selective and outdated collection of references and arguments aimed at confusing rather than clarifying our understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity.»

We are committed to an intellectual climate that is at once welcoming, nurturing and challenging, and that respects the full spectrum of human diversity in race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, socio - economic status, national origin, sexual orientation, disability and religion.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

With her sexuality almost in suspension — the film plays implicitly on the constant speculation around the star's own sexual identity — Maureen sometimes displays a defiant independence, but at other times seems so delicate that it's as if she's on the verge of dissolving.

Yance Ford's own struggle, at the time, was with her sexual identity, which she felt compelled to keep hidden until she was at college.

«American Crime» explores bullying, teen sex, and sexual identity after an alleged attack at a party by high school basketball players, played by (from left) Michael Seitz, Andre Williams, Joey Pollari, and Trevor Jackson.

Like many persecuted for their sexual identities, she must find a way to grieve and move on, relying on an inner spirit that is at once resilient and sublime.

Poking fun at folk's squeaky - clean image, the script includes references to sexual activity and promiscuity, a character who began her entertainment career as a porn star, and another who questions his gender identity.

At its core, «Dirty Computer» is a homage to women and the spectrum of sexual identities.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

Now that era and time have been re-created in Battle of the Sexes, a terrific new film that isn't just about that infamous match but also equal rights and pay for women as well as the sexual identity crisis King was going through at the time.

In her recent New York Times piece with Jenna Wortham (in which Wortham aptly calls the record «a homage to women and the spectrum of sexual identities»), Monáe clarifies that «she has been circling the themes explored... [here] for at least a decade» but only recently felt self - assured enough to face them without masks.

The film's director Dominic Cooke had an able cast at his disposal, and made one great decision: He tilted the movie towards a focus on time and identity, playing up every theme except the sexual one.

According to a 2015 survey [PDF] by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 77 percent of transgender youth were mistreated at school (ranging from verbal harassment to prohibitions on dressing according to gender identity to physical or sexual assault); according to the Human Rights Campaign, transgender youth are twice as likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol [PDF] as straight, cisgender peers.

Even within the 18 states with anti-bullying laws aimed at protecting both sexual orientation and gender identity, and within «blue bubbles» like California, both discomfort and neglect are common, according to Vincent Pompei, director of the Youth Well - Being Project at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S. Pompei noted that attendees at a recent training in Southern California couldn't differentiate sexual orientation from gender identity.

Just over half (50.9 percent) of U.S. middle and high school students reported being verbally harassed at school based on appearance or body size, and the numbers for bullying based on other identity markers were also worrying: race / ethnicity (30.3 percent), gender expression (21.9 percent), sexual orientation (19.4 percent), gender (18.1 percent), religion (18.0 percent), and disability (12.7 percent).

The Church of England has published guidance for teachers aimed at preventing pupils from «having their self - worth diminished or their ability to achieve impeded by being bullied because of their perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity».

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

No one who applies or seeks employment will be denied admission to or employment at North Carolina A&T State University on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disabling condition, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or sexual orientation and sexual identity.

KIPP Academy Boston Charter Public School and KIPP Academy Lynn Charter Public School do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, homelessness, age, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, shall have equal access to the general education program and the full range of any and all education programs offered at our schools.

In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.

They develop a positive sense of their own identities, including elements such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation and see those identities reflected at school.

«Living in, practicing, condoning, or supporting sexual immorality, including but not limited to, sex outside of marriage, homosexual acts, bi-sexual acts; gender identity different than the birth sex at the chromosomal level; promoting such practices; or otherwise the inability to support the moral principles of the school (Leviticus, 20:13 a, Romans 1:27, Matthew 19:4 - 6),» are all grounds for expulsion or the denial of admission to Liberty Christian Academy.

Individuals seeking employment at Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

However, because of my involvement with public art projects and queer identity in early, 90s, I decided to return to paintings with work that looked at the social ideas about the origins of one's sexual identity, often with black humor, of course.