Corinne Yank

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Corinne Yank recently graduated from the University of Oregon, where she majored in International Studies with a focus on Law and Human Rights. Her honors thesis discussed migration and labor trafficking of female domestic workers in Southeast Asia. She is an advocate for female migrants and hopes to practice international human rights law in the future.

Feminism

Is Pop Culture Replacing Sex Education?

By Corinne Yank • September 30, 2014

According to the documentary, “Lets Talk About Sex”, 10,000 teens catch a sexually transmitted disease, 2,400 teen girls get pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV in the US every day. Meanwhile, despite these alarming statistics, our educational and political culture blurs, obscures, and shrouds discussions of sex with denial, systematically oppressing comprehensive… Read more →