THE PROMPTS BELOW ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT COMING OF AGE, YOUR GENDER, SEXUALITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, IDENTITY, AND EXPERIENCES OF SEXUAL INJUSTICE, PLEASE CONSIDER CAREFULLY BEFORE ENGAGING, AND CHECK OUT OUR RESOURCES PAGE HERE.
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how to engage with the prompts:
If a prompt resonates with you, we encourage you to elaborate as much or as little as your strong and unwavering agency deems important. Click here, or on any of the prompt boxes below to submit directly from our website. You can also send us your stories through email and snail mail, so take to your trusty journal, the Notes app on your phone, or wherever you like to write.
Your responses could:
Speak to an individual prompt, a combination of them, or ignore the prompts all together.
Consist of a single word or sentence, or act as the beginning of your memoir.
Take the form of a list, a letter, or poetry.
You are welcome to recount a specific experience or speak more broadly, to speak towards an interpersonal interaction or about a larger culture that influenced your experiences.
two prompt sections:
“During your early years of sexuality did you ever…”
Asks questions about specific experiences and feelings you may have encountered in your formative sexual years. They are examples of a wide range of events that could be understood as experiences of sexual injustice.
“Upon reflection…”
Asks broader questions, prompting consideration of and reflection on different facets of your experience of coming of age and learning sex from your present perspective.
during your early years of sexuality did you ever…
upon reflection….
