The Digital Link Library
Sex Education and Libraries:
Wellness Wednesdays: Taking Care of Your Sexual Wellness
Bringing sex education out of the classroom and into the library in Queens | IPPF
Sex Ed in a Library? How Dare You! — Adventures in Censorship
Pleasure and Sex Education: The Need for Broadening Both Content and Measurement | AJPH
Let's Talk about It | American Libraries Magazine
Banned Books 2025 – It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
Gender Identity and Health Education and Video Games
Gamifying Sexual Education for Adolescents in a Low-Tech Setting: Quasi-Experimental Design Study
How Gamers Use Video Games to Explore Their Gender Identity | Psychology Today
Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach - PMC
Role of Video Games in Improving Health-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review - PMC
OIPO Disability Abstracts: Gaming - Burton Blatt Institute – Syracuse University
Gaming and Disability | Raiders of the Lost Arcade | NC State University Libraries
Trauma in Games: Narrativizing Denied Agency, Ludonarrative Dissonance and Empathy Play
Study: Video games can help Veterans recover from mental health challenges
Role of Video Games in Improving Health-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review - PMC
Pregnancy and Postpartum
Birthing Justice: The Maternal Mortality Crisis
Pregnancy Trends in the United States | Guttmacher Institute
Pregnancy for trans and non-binary parents | Tommy's
Preparing for Pregnancy as a Non-Binary Person
Supporting Women with Disabilities to Achieve Optimal Health
Black Maternal Mortality-The Elephant in the Room - PMC
Rooted in Justice and Joy: What Black Maternal Health Demands of Us Right Now
Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)
Postpartum beliefs and practices among non-Western cultures - PubMed
What Postpartum Care Looks Like Around the World, and Why the US Is Missing the Mark
A postpartum food tour around the world | FoodUnfolded
NOURISHED MAMÁ | Nourish & Heal Today — Kitchen Curandera
A Fresh Taste: Revisiting Okra for Postpartum Nourishment — Birthing from Within
Why maternal mental health matters | Fatimah Jackson-Best | TEDxBridgetown
Sexual health
What Is Sexual Health? | American Sexual Health Association
Understanding Sexual Health and Its Role in More Effective Prevention Programs - PMC
About Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) | STI | CDC
Vulvar and Vaginal Disorders | The University of Kansas Health System
Disorders of the Vulva: Common Causes of Vulvar Pain, Burning, and Itching | ACOG
International Society for the Study ofWomen’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH)
Review of Epidemiology and Pathophysiology, and a Consensus
Nomenclature and Process of Care for the Management of Persistent
Genital Arousal Disorder/Genito-Pelvic Dysesthesia (PGAD/GPD)
Cervical Cancer Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention - NCI
Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus: Current Perspectives
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: An Overview - PMC
Urinary Tract Infections | National Kidney Foundation
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) - NHS
From the Gal-dem digital archives: Queries and Against the Binaries
Queeries: How can I protect my mental health while community organising?-Gal-dem
Against the binary: Reconnecting to Islam as a trans person-Gal-dem
Against the binary: finding home in my intergenerational queer family-Gal-dem
Queeries: am I running out of time?-Gal-dem
Against the binary: imagining a future of holding my chest high-Gal-dem
Queries: How Can I Work Through My Internalised Fatphobia?- Gal-dem
Queeries: When Will I Know When Its Time To Come Out?- Gal-dem
Against The Binary: The Magic of Queer Sex Parties- Gal-dem
Navigating Trauma
Queeries: when will the pain of my sexual assault end?-Gal-dem
Queeries: what can I learn about approaching intimacy with survivors of sexual trauma?-Gal-dem
Self-Care 101: Featuring 101 Self-Care Techniques for Trauma Survivors — Beauty After Bruises
Sexual assault survivors care guide | Hey Jane
Sexual pleasure after sexual trauma
Religion, Sexuality, and Gender Identity:
Catholics Can Do Queer Liberation Theology, Too | Sojourners
LGBTQ Catholics need a queer theology of liberation - Outreach
What queer theory taught me about the saints | National Catholic Reporter
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Buddhism
Sexuality and Religious Ethics: Analysis in a Multicultural University Context - PMC
Navigating Sex & Relationships with Religious Trauma Syndrome - Rebellious Magazine
Religious Trauma + Painful Sex
Religion and Sexual Behavior | Institute for Family Studies
Religion, Gender, and Sexuality: Three Points on Freedom of Religion or Belief - Talk About
https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual-sexual-and-religious/
Trauma & Attachment
Case Studies & Articles:
The Experience of Stress and Trauma: Black Lesbians in South Africa
Reflections on loss
loss
/lôs,läs/
the fact or process of losing something or someone.
the state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.
a person or thing that is badly missed when lost.
a reduction of power within or among circuits, measured as a ratio of power input to power output.
Reflection:
What has felt lost, who are you afraid of losing? What is lost in the physical, spatial, sexual, emotional, linguistic, and psychological intimacies you are holding and sharing? What moments, parts of the self, etc. are you afraid of losing? Who are you afraid of losing? Is it yourself? In what dynamics are you losing more? Are they losing too? How can you grow, become full, blossom? What must be lost, what must be gained/re-gained for healing to occur?
Toxic Relationship dynamics
Trauma Bonding, Codependency, and Narcissistic Abuse
Un-Gendering Partnerships
Like with all of these sections, the most important thing you can do is talk to the person you are fostering intimacy with. Are you holding space for them and their happiness? Are you being fair? Are you using language that is careful and loving? Are you holding space and accountability for your hurtful sentiments and emotional/cultural transpositions?
Racialized Disgender and Disruptive Futurity in Lorde’s and Engelberg’s Cancer Narratives