The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards (Sexies) seek accurate, non-sensationalistic coverage of sex in the news.
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- 2007
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- Deadline for Sexies 2009
www.sexies.org/submit.php
Tuesday, March 31 at 12:00am
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- Donate to the Sexies, Win Great Art 9:45am Mar 5
- Sexies 2009 Judges Announced 9:36am Mar 5
- Announcing new board members! 9:34am Mar 5
Sex-Positive Journalism Awards is sorting and qualifying entries, trying to get them to the judges...
Sex-Positive Journalism Awards Example of the kind of assumption I'm still surprised to see printed in a news article: "...given the reasonable assumption that most women (and even a few men) would prefer earnest courtship to a quickie with a stranger, no strings attached..." Wouldn't you think a news article on Craigslist would want to, say, be investigating such a gender-biased assumption rather than using it as a premise?
Source: www.nytimes.com
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Sex-Positive Journalism Awards Thanks to everyone who sent entries (and to whoever got the deadline going viral on Twitter!) They'll be going to the judges shortly, with results in early June. In the meantime, remember you can also send entries for the 2010 awards (stories published in
Sex-Positive Journalism Awards has extended the deadline to April 20. Dig through those listserv archives and bookmarks!
Sex-Positive Journalism Awards is eagerly anticipating entries.
Would you like an original painting by Julio Aguilera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Aguilera)...
Sex-Positive Journalism Awards (on right) Original painting made for the Sexies by Julio Aguilera
We're excited to welcome: * award-winning journalist and 2008 first-place Sexies winner Debbie Nathan * Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH, associate director for the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, a sex columnist, and sex educator for The Kinsey Institute for Research...
The Sexies Advisory board has grown this year, with the addition of journalist Doug Henwood and The Coalition for Positive Sexuality as an organizational sponsor...
The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards got a shoutout in the introduction to Cleis Press’s Best Sex Writing 2009, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (a Sexies judge for the 2009 awards), and three Sexies winners show up in its pages. ...
Debbie Nathan, author of the first-place winning "Hysteria, Exploitation, and Witch Hunting in the Age of Internet Sex" shares a little of what it was like to report:"I made myself an apron after I found out I'd won, and I bought iron-on letters...
