This is a website for Sexuality Education Roundtable participants to keep in touch between participant meetings.

BREAKING SER NEWS

The sixth participant meeting will be on December 7th from 4-6 p.m. Once again we will meet via video conference so that people from multiple centres can easily participate. We will begin discussion of a working plan for 2011.

In addition, Jacob Taiapa will speak about Te Puawai Tapu’s current sexuality education efforts and focus, and Tommy Vorst will speak about a Gender Issues Group that he ran in Winnipeg in the past. Both presentations promise to be interesting and useful for SER participants, so we hope you’ll ‘attend’ via your local video node.

The (SER’s) 5^th participant meeting went ahead via video-conference on Monday September 1^th from 3:00 to 5:00. We set about reviewing the principles behind the aims and focus of the SER, and it was a very fruitful discussion.

The minutes of this participant meeting are now posted on the Agendas & Minutes page for you to click on and download.

Brian

New Facebook Group

It’s come to light that the underuse of this blog has partly been due to the fact that most people have lost their log-in details and the URL of the blog. Also, it’s a very public forum which prevents discussion sometimes. For this reason, Rachel Hansen proposed a Facebook group. From now on this blog will be our international public face, but the Facebook group will provide a members-only interaction space. If you’d like to know more about how to join the Facebook group, please use the form below to ask for information.

MEETINGS

- 5th Participant Meeting to be held in Wellington in September, 2010.

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Hi all and thanks for making it so easy to speak last week, and at such a fruitful meeting!

I just got these in my inbox, and thought some of the membership might be interested:

Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America
(www.powerandcontrolfilm.com) is a new documentary about the shocking
persistence of violence against women in our society.  One in every four
women will experience intimate partner violence, and the film offers a
disturbing, thought provoking exploration of the role of patriarchal values
and other gender influences in the perpetuation of this epidemic.

also:


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We are very pleased to announce the eighth biennial
meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture
and Society (IASSCS), entitled “Naming and Framing: The Making of Sexual
(In)Equality”. This conference is co-organized by the Social Anthropology
Department of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 

The 2011 Conference theme focuses on the multiple
ways that equality and inequality are articulated through sexuality.  The
meeting will explore diverse situations and issues of (in)equality with regard
to sexuality in the global arena, bringing together researchers, advocates,
policymakers and practitioners to critically share their strategies and
challenges that inform and inspire new forms of action and thinking about
sexuality. 

The theme of the meeting invites dialogue and
analyses of the interplay of sexuality, sexual identity, gender, class, race,
ethnicity, age, citizenship and inequality.  As well, the conference theme
invites analyses placed within the context of the state’s willingness (or
reticence) to discuss and incorporate practices, discourses, laws and public
policies that acknowledge sexual rights for all men and women and promote
gender equality, and recognition of sexual diversity. 

THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS JANUARY 10th, 2011 
www.iasscs.org/2011conference

(As I committed Facebook seppukoo long ago and so cannot do it myself, please feel free to cross-post this information to that group.)
 

 

Hi again everyone

As an update to the post below, I’ve decided not to represent the SER as a signatory to this submission . This is because to do so would create a conflict of interest for some of our participants.

Instead I will sign it as an individual citizen. If anyone else would like to be a signatory on an individual basis, you should contact Peter Saxton. If this is your wish, please either contact him directly or e-mail me and ask me for his contact details.

Sincerely,

Brian King

Hi All

Peter Saxton is making a submission to the  Ministry of Health in his capacity as a member of the Expert Advisory Board, Sexual Orientation Data Collection Project on behalf of a group of individual researchers and stakeholders.

In the submission he argues for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the proposed Ministry of Health’s New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS), which currently omits sexual orientation as a core sociodemographic variable. The proposed NZHS is designed to replace the existing government programme of official health surveys in this country.

I’ve been invited to be a  signatory on behalf of the Sexuality Education Roundtable. I have to reply by Thursday, April 29th. Unless I hear otherwise from any participants I intend to go ahead as a signatory in the name of the SER. You can download the submission on the Documents page of this website if you’d like to read it.

Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Brian King

 Hi Wellington participants

There’s a meeting coming up on Wednesday afternoon that’s been organised by the Wellington Cluster of the NZHEA. The point is to network in the face of a dwindling advisory system for teachers of Health in a formal educati0n setting.

If you’d like to attend, please let Brad Williamson or me know. Information below.

Brian King

Save Health Education

Venue – Whitireia Polytechnic (Porirua) Room G101

Time – 4pm – 6pm Wednesday 17^th March

(Cost – Gold Coin for food)

Meeting Intentions

–      to establish professional connections

–      set up on ongoing support network

–      be inspired

 Importance

Political Climate

All primary advisory support – gone

Secondary advisory services – drastically cut and often no health specialist advisor

Mental health contract (subject specific PD) – Not continued

Trainee teacher hours – halved again – 12.5 hours at VUW

 But we can draw our strength from

The New Zealand Curriculum – we can embrace the curriculum through innovative health education

The focus on people in this document is very important

Opportunities through communication technology for easier online collaboration

Each other – we can share our strengths ideas and resources

 Agenda

1. 50mins – 1 hour of 5-10min presentations on exciting things planned by health educators for this year.
2. Food and drinks – social networking
3. Circle time sharing concerns for Health Ed and support we would like
4. Establishing a NZHEA Wellington Cluster committee (http://ache2.wetpaint.com/ we are developing a wiki – still under construction – to help support future collaboration)
5. Next meeting

 Please send Brad Williamson (who has an SER account) a brief description if you have an idea you would be excited about sharing with us all. 

Thank you, 

Brad Williamson  (NZHEA – Executive Committee Wellington Representative)

Mani Mitchell  (Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand)

Brian King  (Postgraduate student – VUW)

Amanda Hargreaves (Lecturer HE – VUW)

Katie Robb  (Health Educator)

Barbara Batchelor (NZHEA president)

Hi Everyone. The March Sexuality Roundtable Meeting will be held:

3-5pm Monday 8th March 2010,

(Wheki 352 Dovedale Avenue campus, University of Canterbury)

* After checking out the possibilities of audio- conferencing they were financially prohibitive, so with people’s permission we will record the formal part of the meeting and have the proceedings available on the Sexuality Education Roundtable website .

Kathleen Quinlivan