Media

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media interviews, quotes, features and mentions: magazines and websites:

The Chicago Reader: You’re not allowed to just be old and embrace it. The authors of What Fresh Hell is This? and Damaged Like Me in conversation

March 5, 2024

The New York Times: The Unending Indignities of ‘Vaginal Atrophy’

March 5, 2023

The Guardian: ‘Who knows when my period will arrive next?’: a frank conversation about menopause

March 5, 2021

Autostraddle: Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF in “What Fresh Hell Is This?”

March 5, 2021

Rebellious Magazine: The Long-Overdue Inclusive Feminist Guide to Menopause

March 5, 2021

InStyle: Of Course Gen X Is Doing Menopause Differently

April 22, 2020

Ms. Magazine: The Ms. Q&A: How Heather Corinna Started the Online Sex Education Revolution

October 28, 2019

Chicago Tribune: Ask Anna: How do you know if you’re ready for sex?

April 15, 2019

Bitch Magazine, Red Letter Day: The Enduring Legacy of Scarleteen, the Internet’s Best Sex-Ed Site

April 1, 2019

Goop: Essential Resources on Kids, Teens, Puberty, Sex, and the Internet

June 14, 2018

Vice: How to Experiment with Bisexuality Without Being a Jerk

June 12, 2018

Mashable: How mutual masturbation can help close the orgasm gap

May 7, 2018

Mashable: Actual things you can do to bridge the orgasm gap in your own bedroom

May 7, 2018

The Guardian: Sex education at the push of a button: the apps changing lives worldwide

April 28, 2018

Washington Post: What to do when your teen tells you they have a sexually transmitted infection

April 21, 2017

Vox: There’s a subtle sexism in asking excessive “questions” about Hillary Clinton’s health

September 13, 2016

Goop: Change Your Thinking on Teen Sex

March 1, 2016

Teen Vogue: We Answered the 12 Most-Googled Sex Questions of 2015

December 16, 2015

The Guardian: Twenty-three more books every teenager should read

December 4, 2015

Bustle: 5 Ways To Feel Less Anxious About Having Sex During Your Period

September 14, 2015

The Georgia Straight: Scarleteen founder Heather Corinna wins 2015 Sexual Health Champion award

February 4, 2015

Deseret News: Does sex belong in schools? 7 ways parents can talk to their kids about sex

November 12, 2014

Salon: Finding your kid’s porn

September 30, 2014

The Atlantic: ‘We Felt Like We Were Above the Law’: How the NCAA Endangers Women

September 23, 2014

Sex, Etc: Getting to Know Heather Corinna: The Activist Behind Scarleteen

August 7, 2014

The Italian-American Women Visibility Project

June 1, 2014

Ms.: Heather Corinna Goes Beyond “The Sex Talk”

November 23, 2010

Feministing: The Feministing Five: Heather Corinna

February 27, 2010

The Globe & Mail: I love you, man. But, dude, so not in a gay way

July 16, 2009

Salon: Young, fast and totally confused: Do today’s teen girls really have it easier than their moms’ generation when it comes to sex?

June 1, 2009

Medill Reports: Sex ed for teens leaves LGBTQ out of the discussion

March 12, 2009

Center for New Words: Heather Corinna: On Scarleteen, sex education, what’s being written and what isn’t

July 17, 2007

The Nation: 21st Century S.E.X. Ed

July 10, 2007

Minnesota Women’s Press: Heather Corinna provides accurate information for teens

June 1, 2007

Chicago Tribune: The birds, the bees & the book

May 24, 2007

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Everything teens wanted to know about sex … is at Scarleteen

May 13, 2007

Chicago Tribune: Using a Mouse to Learn About The Birds and Bees

January 13, 2002

City Pages: Women and Children First!

December 8, 1999

video, podcasts, radio + more

Always Andersonville: Episode 175: Sexual Health, Aging, Menopause, and more with Searah Deysach and Heather Corinna, 2024

Teach Your Kids: Sex Education with Heather Corinna from Scarleteen, 2024 (podcast)

The Mayo Clinic’s Read. Talk. Grow.: Unlocking the mysteries of perimenopause, 2024 (podcast)

Circling the Drain: Sticky Wickets with Heather Corinna, 2023 (podcast)

Gender GP: Inclusive Sex Education, 2021 (podcast)

Everything is Fine: What Fresh Hell Is This?, 2021 (podcast)

Middling Along: Heather Corinna on hellish peri symptoms and their new book ”What Fresh Hell is This?”, 2021 (podcast)

Social Intercourse: What Fresh Hell, Indeed with Heather Corinna – Episode 19, 2021 (podcast)

Northwestern University’s  Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, EDIT Program Community Spotlight, 2018 (podcast)

Sex Out Loud: Heather Corinna of Scarleteen on Why Progressive Sex Ed is Critical, 2014 (podcast)

NPR, Website Aims To Give Teens Real-World Advice On The Birds And The Bees, 2016 (radio)

Bad Sex Stories with Heather Corinna: Fucking While Feminist Episode 40, 2014 (podcast)

How To Lose Your Virginity, Therese Schecter, 2013 (documentary film)