Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her)

I am a Sexual Health Nurse Educator. Follow me to help you learn about sex and sexuality and how to have conversations about it.
Co-author of Kit & Arlo

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Have your students missed out on sexuality, consent, and respectful relationships education over the last 2 years? Virtual Classroom could be the solution for your school! ⠀
VC for Primary Schools: https://t.co/bX7dmXoUtw
VC for Secondary Schools: https://t.co/UZkVOOe3aa

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

https://t.co/8QhaFn2SLc

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Many men treat the women and girls in our lives with respect and care. Yet few of us speak up when other men behave in sexist and disrespectful ways, and even fewer challenge the wider inequalities that harm women and girls. It’s time for men to step up. https://t.co/UR5eacytp4

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Focusing on consent ignores better ways of preventing sexual violence
By Nicole K. Jeffrey
https://t.co/AkHfJ7FIlB

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Do the young people in your life know how to access safe and reliable sexual health information online?
Simply send this link to the young people (16+) you know so that they can find health and support information in one place: https://t.co/lLz7pNknwX
#consent #sexualhealth

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Wow when you are quoted with @corysilverberg https://t.co/tUgKiMhbYK

#consent #respectfulrelationships #sexed #sexualityeducation

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Thanks so much Anna Kelsey-Sugg for getting this important message out. With over 25% of your people having experienced child sexual abuse according to the new maltreatment report Education is so important.

[ABC News @abcnews]

'Parents have never had this education.' There’s a reason talking about sex with kids seems hard – but it doesn't have to be https://t.co/9iqXmJxr2O

[Brian P Schmidt @cosmicpinot]

I am deeply saddened by the decision of the Liberal Party to actively campaign against the Voice referendum. I see the Voice as a chance for modern Australia to recognize it First Nations people and their 65000+ year past. want to know more? here is a FAQ https://t.co/X4S0J5Udxu

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Exactly what I hear from parents IRL

[Jacqui Hendriks @JacquiHendriks]

Dear schools, please feel comfortable to teach a whole range of sex ed topics. Australian parents have your back and they want you to teach more than consent. Check out my recent article: https://t.co/oRXq6io52r via @ConversationEDU @Bloom_edAU

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

🌈Quite frankly, adults who are so concerned about other people's sexuality, (especially children's) when it is none of their business sets my reg flags flying... disgusting.

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

🌈Every adult/carer/parent/educator of children should read this statement by the Royal Children's Hospital here in Melbourne and click on the links to educate yourselves. #diversity #respect

https://t.co/zUTLAJdg7R

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

🌈Trans and gender diverse kids are some of the most vulnerable in our society - because of disgraceful adults who harm children and others under the guise of freedom of speech and that their rights are more important than other's.

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

This…

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Sex: Women are still expected to prioritise their male partners’ sexual desires over their own. Women now have the “sexual freedom” to go along with porn-inspired acts – strangulation, slapping, aggression – that are unwanted if not harmful and dangerous. https://t.co/s1pv69CQ4D

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Let's be CRYSTAL CLEAR @7NewsAustralia Australia Teacher's do not have sex with underage children. This is child sexual abuse.

You must do better than this.

"Victorian Teacher pleads guilty to child sexual abuse"
https://t.co/RybfLe30HX

[Bloom-Ed @Bloom_edAU]

Would you like to help your local national Relationships and Sexuality Education advocacy action group decide what to focus on next? 🌹

5 min survey: https://t.co/PgY9TxGDtK

Muchos gracias 🙏

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

Teaching kids that sex is shameful can harm them for life https://t.co/vDipqbUBdq

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

I live and work on the lands of Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation - Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.
🖤💛❤️

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

I want to celebrate our country, however I want to celebrate all 60,000+ years of it.
Which includes telling the truth about it’s history.

That history includes colonisation and the beginning of the dispossession of land, violence, massacres and genocide for indigenous

[Vanessa Hamilton (She/Her) @TalkingSexEd]

population who were already here.

I don't celebrate atrocities against Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples, so won’t be celebrating on the 26th of January, a date that represents mourning for so many.