At the same time, there has been a highly charged political and emotional debate regarding
the outcomes and underlying messages inherent in teaching teenagers about sexuality and …

In the call for articles for this special issue on girls' health, we highlighted that “[g] irls' health
is an ongoing and evolving issue with ties that go beyond medical analyses to include a …

Young people in Calabar have diverse sexual and reproductive health challenges. Many
argue that integrating gender into health programming will help reduce some of these issues …

This paper explores the engagement of African-American, Caribbean-American, and
immigrant West African girls in the critical analysis and writing of poetry to make sense of …

There is a space that resides between girlhood and womanhood. This space contains what
is personal, familial, and societal. It is the place that transforms Black girls into Black women …

This article examines spoken word poetry created by adolescents participating in gender-
based violence (GBV) education in Trinidad and Tobago. It situates the spoken word poetry …

This chapter discusses a growing concern about the politics of research and practice
directed at young people's sexualities and sexual health over the last three decades in …

Policies related to youth and their sexuality, health, and rights are rarely informed by youth
voices and perspectives. We sought to understand youth voice and knowledges in their …

White men, White women, and men of African descent have traditionally either been asked,
or taken it upon themselves to speak for and about the health status of people of African …

The historical construction of the Black female body as hypersexual, abnormal and
unrapeable is rooted in racist colonial ideas that have over time become politicised and …