Shelby Knox

Shelby Knox

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Shelby Knox grew up as a conservative Southern Baptist in Texas turned progressive activist and documentary film subject. She recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Political Science. Throughout her college career, Shelby traveled across the nation to speak to young people about the importance of comprehensive sex education and the power of youth activism, using the film that carries her name, The Education of Shelby Knox, as a vehicle for discussion. She currently lives in New York City and is a full time speaker and organizer working with progressive organizations to promote sex education, women’s rights, and youth empowerment.

Blog Entries by Shelby Knox

Abstinence is the New Feminism (And Other Things I Learned at Harvard)

Posted April 1, 2008 | 10:19 AM (EST)

The chastity movement has grown up and gone off to college, which is no wonder, really, since legislators recently decided to focus attention and federal money on keeping unmarried adults abstaining until at least their 29th birthday. The members of Harvard's True Love Revolution, a campus chastity club,...

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Teen Sexual Health Crisis: What Parents Can Do

3 Comments | Posted March 13, 2008 | 03:30 PM (EST)

While America is focusing on the evolving drama of the Spitzer sex scandal and the MySpace musical styling of "Kristen," the young woman who he paid for sex, the CDC has announced that one in four American teen girls has a sexually transmitted infection. It's fitting that the...

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Seventeen Tackles New Teen (Pregnancy) Trend

3 Comments | Posted January 29, 2008 | 04:17 PM (EST)

While Juno is trading a hospital gown for Oscar couture and Jamie Lynn is dodging photographers in Louisiana, the American public is grappling with the new visibility of the teen baby bump and turning back to the media for answers.

Actual teen voices, the only ones that can really...

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Hollywood Bests Washington On Teen Sex

Posted December 17, 2007 | 02:47 PM (EST)

This month we learned that teen birth rates are on the rise for the first time since 1991.While this alarming statistical shift should inspire concern or anger or action, it has received little more than wary acknowledgment from any of the 2008 presidential hopefuls (on either side of the...

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