Calling all Youth/Youth Media Bloggers

Participate in the fourth Youth Media Blog-a-Thon

Topic: Sex

Building on the success of our first two virtual events, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia and WireTap are proud to announce our third week-long Youth Media Blog-a-Thon to kick off on Wednesday May 28th.

We are calling all young bloggers (between the ages of 14-26) – along with any bloggers dedicated to writing about youth issues and youth media – to blog from May 28th to June 4th about: SEX!

Here are some ideas to address in your blog posts:
• What tips do you have for men and women when it comes to intimacy?
• What tips/stories do you have for young people in relationships concerning: long-term partnership, moving in together, open relationships, etc.
• What kind of sex education do you have in your school/community? Is it successful? What kind of sex education would you like to have in your school/community?
• What do you think about the way teen sexuality is portrayed in popular culture?
• Do you think there is more or less acceptance of queer sexuality now?Explain.

If you are interested in being a part of the Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, please email Neelanjana Banerjee at nbanerjee@newamericamedia.org.

About: This is the fourth of a series of monthly Youth Media Blog-a-Thons that aims to virtually connect the youth media community by asking them to respond to one topic and to engage with each other. We hope that these monthly events will foster more dialogue between youth media leading to connectivity as media makers and as activists.
Our first Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, held from February 20th to February 23rd, was a huge success! Over 15 bloggers discussed the upcoming presidential elections, the youth vote, who they were voting for and why, the idiosyncrasies of the super delegate system and whether making voting mandatory would help fix the system.

Check out most of the posts starting: here

Our second Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, held from March 19th to the 26th, brought together powerful testimonials from young people about violence that had touched their lives both personally and globally.

Check out most of the posts starting: here

Our third Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, held from April 23rd to April 30th, was all about money – especially the lack of it and ways to save it.

Check out most of the posts starting:
here.

Bloggers who have participated the Youth Media Blog-a-Thons: YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia

WireTap Mag

The Playground

Ill-literacy

The Cheddar Box

Vanessa Van Petten

Oh Dang!

Boston Public Radio

Youth Radio

Respect RX

Girls for Change

Edin08

Sex Etc.

Kameelah Rasheed

Vanessa Haung

Oakland Girls Speaks

Khmer Girls in Action

Sponsoring Organizations:

For over 15 years, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia has been a leader in youth-produced content in the Bay Area. Through our active website (http://www.youthoutlook.org), YO!TV – a weekly 30-minute television show on local KBCW, and our weekly YO!Radio segments aired on KALW 91.7 Information Radio and 106.1 KMEL, YO! gives young people a voice on the issues they most care about. YO! content is also regularly syndicated in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune and more. The YO! blog has been active for over a year.

WireTap is a national news and culture magazine by and for socially conscious youth. Our online community promotes social justice, inspires action and gives young people a voice in the media. Wiretap provides free, daily content to over 60,000 monthly visitors and 14,000 weekly newsletter subscribers. Our award-winning journalism and youth commentary is syndicated every week on the Nation.com, AlterNet.org and Chicago Sun Times, college papers, and hundreds of our stories get linked to in widely read blogs and websites from Mother Jones blog to Fear of a Brown Blogger to social networking site MyBloc.net.