#20yearsofscarleteen

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

We’re wrapping up the rollout week of our year-long 20th anniversary celebration today. Phew! Thanks for being a part of it, and thanks even more for being a part of Scarleteen the last two decades. Here’s a quick recap of some of the last week’s content and festivities: • We turned TWENTY.  That really happened, and our founder had a few things they wanted to say about it. #20YearsofScarleteen (The OG) #QueerSexEdForAll • We list five ways you can help support Scarleteen so we can keep on keepin’ on. It’s been mighty hard to make it this far, especially doing so much for so many with so little money. How about you make it a little easier on us the for next 20? • A soundtrack to mark the occasion at Apple Music - https://buff.ly/2UzWGgo - or Spotify https://buff.ly/2QI7n2f !  • Our Threadless shop, including new stuff with our shiny 20th anniversary graphic by Isabella Rotman! • An awfully nifty summary timeline of #20YearsofScarleteen by Sam Wall. • Scarleteens All Growed Up: Some of our user, staff and volunteer alumni are coming back to tell some tales. Alice M. rolls it out and you can also read from Arianna, Beppie, Karyn, Emily and Hanne there. • Don’t miss Hanne Blank’s “Where The Wild Things Are, Or, How Scarleteen Came to Be,” a Scarleteen origin story. (Image from the 2014 e-cards we made with Isabella Rotman!)

We got some major love from friend of Scarleteen Captain Awkward! If you haven’t seen their site before, go check it out!

(And look, we give you things, even on OUR anniversary. Image above is from a puberty booklet of that name secretly written by Judy Blume, no joke: http://judyblumeblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/full-disclosure-not-long-after-are-you.html You're welcome!)

Who remembers #LifeBeforeScarleteen in 1998? What was it like trying to get solid sex information from cave paintings, ancient scrolls and, often most challenging of all, your parents and other adults? How and where did you look for or get sex information before 1998? Or, if you weren’t even born or looking for sex info then, how was your sex education/information experience before you found us? We’d love to hear your stories!