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Morning Chooljian: WBEZ’s morning reporter Lauren Chooljian is ahead of the curve, telling us what stories will have the media riled up this week. Today: Rahm’s absenteeism when it comes to schools news, gay marriage at the Supreme Court, and the Year 25 series.
NWIndy Theater: Footlight Theater in Michgan City is putting on Tennessee Williams’s classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Director Steve Rohe and Big Daddy, aka George Maslankowski are in studio to talk about how the melodrama remains relevant.
Sexfest 2013: At the beginning of April, Amanda and David Torrey are organizing a collection of events around sex and gender to bring the work of academic researchers and thinkers to wider audiences. They’ll be in-studio to give a preview of what they’ve pulled together and discuss why we get so giggly and squeamish in having frank conversation about sexuality.
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Rachel Durchslag, Executive Director of Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE), told Molly Adams and Brian Babylon about launching a curriculum that focuses on young males as agents of change to fight sexual exploitation and trafficking. She also talked about recent changes in Illinois trafficking laws that will hold traffickers accountable more tightly.
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Sex education programs that only teach about not doing it have gotten a bad rap on Feminist Wednesday for reinforcing gender stereotypes, discouraging dialogue, and ignoring the reality that some teens will have sex even if they aren’t told about it. Moises Pacheco has been an abstinence only sex ed teacher for a number of years, and he came on the show to squash some of our ignorance about how open-minded an abstinence-only sex education can be.
