Between The Pages

It's just Caitlin on the mic today, and she gives a little state of the union on the state of sex ed in the U.S. We talk about little joys, sexuality news, and some not-great numbers when it comes to sex ed in schools. Caitlin also answers some listener questions on how to have a career in sex education and sex educators to follow on Instagram.

Show Notes

• Guttmacher Institute data on adolescents and sexual health in the U.S.
• Cameron Glover's resources for sex educators 
• Jaclyn Friedman's podcast Unscrewed

Sex Educators To Follow
@whatsmybodydoing
@thecameronglover
@sexpositive_families
@sassy_latte
@theminoritysexreport
@urge_org
@siecus
@amazeorg

IT’S BOOK CLUB DAY! Caitlin discusses The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth with Alex and Sam from The Bookstagays podcast! We chat about how The Bookstagays came to be, Alex and Sam’s favorite queer books, what we want to see more of in the LGBTQ+ literary world...the gay screaming is real. 

Then we launch into discussing Cameron Post, which broke our hearts a little in the best way.  It’s a coming of age story set in rural Montana in the 90’s, and there’s lots of first love, heartbreak, and finding yourself.

*Content warning for discussions of homophobia, conversion camps, and unaccepting family members.* 

Show Notes

Find Alex on Instagram @thebookadvocate and Sam @staxsonstaxs

The BookstaGays (@thebookstagays) was created solely on a whim after Sam and Alex wanted a space to talk about queer books and talk to other queer bookstagrammers. It’s a space dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community where most of our conversations revolve around the importance of representation, intermittent dog barking, squealing with our queer friends, and yelling about all of our gay crushes and theories. We like books, we’re gay, so we put those things together to make a podcast every week!

The Bookstagays episode interviewing Meryl Wilsner, author of Something To Talk About

Sam’s fave queer books: 

• CeruleanThe House in the Cerulean Sea
• Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
• Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera

Alex’s fave queer books:

• You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
• Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• Not Your Sidekick trilogy by C.B. Lee
• How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake 
• Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Other fave queer YA picks: 

• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Emily M. Danforth has a new book out next month! It’s called Plain Bad Heroines

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BTP is delighted to welcome NYT best-selling author Sarah MacLean to the podcast!

Sarah and Caitlin talk about sex in romance novels (including a very important question re: squirting), reading and writing romance to fight the patriarchy, and a listeners' Q&A from Old Town Books Bad Romance Book Club members.

Show Notes

• The EW “elegantly fuming, utterly intoxicating” article
• Sarah’s Gracefully Furious merch
• The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter

Sex Ed In Romance
Pegging Romance Interstitial episode of Fated Mates (Sarah’s podcast)
You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria normalizes lube

Reading Romance To Fight the Patriarchy
Sarah’s The Bareknuckle Bastards series
Daring & The Duke episode of Fated Mates

Romance Q&A
Naughty Brits came out September 15! Sarah wrote a contemporary secret duke short story. Buy it at Old Town Books.
Friends To Lovers Interstitial episode of Fated Mates

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@kristenlcoates is back! Here’s her amazing romance recommendation round-up: 

Fake Relationship Trope Faves

Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez

The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham

When A Scot Ties The Knot by Tessa Dare

Best Intro Romances For New Readers

Sarah MacLean’s Rules of Scoundrels series 

A Rogue by Any Other Name

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

Alisha Rai’s Forbidden Hearts series

Hate To Want You

Wrong To Need You

Hurts To Love You 

More Alisha Rai

Glutton For Pleasure

Serving Pleasure

Fave Paranormal Series

The Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole

Erotic Romance Faves

Sierra Simone’s New Camelot series

American Queen

American Prince

American King

Sierra Simone’s Sinner series

Priest

Sinner

Old School Romance Faves

The Secret by Julie Garwood

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick

Best Grovel

Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas

Casino Historical

From Duke Til Dawn by Eva Leigh

Other things we mention: 

Sarah MacLean & Jen Prokop’s podcast Fated Mates

Kristen is one of the co-leaders of Bad Romance Book Club, one of the many amazing book clubs hosted by indie bookstore Old Town Books in Alexandria, VA. 

In this episode Caitlin is joined by the wonderful @kristenlcoates to discuss all things romance genre, sexuality, and sexy times! Kristen is a brilliant mind, an avid romance reader, and one of the fearless leaders of the Bad Romance Book Club hosted by Old Town Books in Alexandria VA. Caitlin and Kristen talk about their first romance novels (both by the queen Sarah MacLean, of course), gush about BRBC as the best space for thoughtful conversations about romance and sex jokes, as well as wax poetic about the importance of romance as a genre that is pushing the boundaries of patriarchy. Kristen also gets into the difficulties in obtaining print romances for book club and the limitations of the romance publishing industry (it's way too white, y'all).

Next episode, Kristen will share her romance recommendation roundup!

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Book club ep! Caitlin chats with Aimee Nguyen, brilliant public health professional and photographer, about this month's book club pick: American Hookup by Lisa Wade. They discuss college hookup culture, "catching feelings" and the possibility for empathetic hookups, and the oversexualization of Asian-American women.

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Interview ep! Caitlin chats with Samantha Bauman (@feminisam), an electoral politics professional focused on getting women and people supportive of reproductive choice elected. We talk about Sam’s origin story with politics & choice, supporting local candidates (including their amazing campaign ads), and how to actually help the candidates we want in office - spoiler alert: it includes phone banking, so get on it! 

Show Notes: 

Wendy Davis’ filibuster to block restrictive abortion bill in Texas

Sara Gideon’s campaign ad

Candace Valenzuela’s campaign ad

Busy Phillipps opens up about having an abortion

Sam’s book recommendation: The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell

Organizations to get involved with to elect choice candidates:

Planned Parenthood

EMILY’s List

Collective PAC

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Solo ep! Caitlin does a roundup of wonderful Black sex educators to follow, as well as books by Black authors that center sexuality.

Shownotes below!
SisterSong, what is reproductive justice?

Educators: 

• Sex Positive Families | Amaze: the #AskableParent Guide to Porn
• Ericka Hart
• Sonya Renee Taylor
• Dr. Tracie Gilbert

Books: 

• The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
• Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Welcome to the very first episode of Between The Pages! Our guest today is Jackson Viccora, a brilliant 20-something and (you guessed it) my brother. Jackson serves as our resident "boy guest" as we discuss Peggy Orenstein's book Boys & Sex. We discuss everything from boys and their emotions, porn as sex education, and if there's any salvaging toxic masculinity.

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