Not Your Mother's Meatloaf

A Sex Education Comic Book

Saiya Miller, Liza Bley

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Soft Skull Press
30 July 2013

Personal & social issues: sex education & the facts of life (Children's&YA)

As teenagers today navigate increasingly fluid identities and choices, there is a demand for an accessible, interactive tool to help share knowledge about sex and sexual health; one that demystifies the facts and speaks frankly about experiences whose lessons often fall into the grey areas.

Since 2008, Miller and Bley have held an open call for young people to create comics that address a variety of topics involved with sex education.

We have since produced several issues of a sex-ed comic called Not Your Mother's Meatloaf.

The work is chosen from a vastly varied group of submissions and attempts to challenge hetero and gender normative practices in sex education. The comics address topics like body image, safer sex, consent, and relationships, from positions that have historically been left out of sex education.

These graphically illustrated personal narratives address different themes, such as Firsts,"" Bodies,"" Health,"" Age,"" and Endings."" The book will bring together the best of the material from the Not Your Mother's Meatloaf comics, along with new graphic stories and writing by the editors providing personal and sociological background.

As teenagers today navigate increasingly fluid identities and choices, there is a demand for an accessible, interactive tool to help share knowledge about sex and sexual health; one that demystifies the facts and speaks frankly about experiences whose lessons often fall into the grey areas.

Since 2008, Miller and Bley have held an open call for young people to create comics that address a variety of topics involved with sex education.

We have since produced several issues of a sex-ed comic called Not Your Mother's Meatloaf.

The work is chosen from a vastly varied group of submissions and attempts to challenge hetero and gender normative practices in sex education. The comics address topics like body image, safer sex, consent, and relationships, from positions that have historically been left out of sex education.

These graphically illustrated personal narratives address different themes, such as Firsts,"" Bodies,"" Health,"" Age,"" and Endings."" The book will bring together the best of the material from the Not Your Mother's Meatloaf comics, along with new graphic stories and writing by the editors providing personal and sociological background.

By: Saiya Miller, Liza Bley
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 355g
ISBN: 9781593765170
ISBN 10: 1593765177
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 July 2013
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Saiya Miller graduated from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. She has worked as an educator and activist, teaching art and music, as well as using comics and zines in workshops for teenagers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and Vermont. Liza Bley studied writing in New York City, where she also worked at Make, a craft and sewing school, and contributed sampled to the book Embroider Everything Workshop.

Reviews for Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book

Praise for Not Your Mother's Meatloaf I wish I could go back in time and learn about sex from this book. --Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? and Fun Home Not Your Mother's Meatloaf--seven chapters of candidly self-aware comics and writings--explores the multifarious world of the human sexual experience. Topics include experimentation, faking orgasms, cross-dressing, learning how to casually talk about sex with friends, abusive relationships, finding liberation through positive influences, first times, last times, health, age, identity, body image, substance abuse, masturbation and strange desires. While some traditional sex-ed books can seem patronizing toward adolescents, Not Your Mother's Meatloaf consists of real people telling their own stories. -Albuquerque Weekly