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Our Voices

A place for the voices of our team and our community

Throughout the years, many young people have been a part of the YEP Crew and contributed to our community and our resources. These blog posts are a place for them to express themselves, to be heard, and to share their knowledge with the world. Some posts are joined by theme, others are thoughts and reflections, but all are the authentic feelings of young people within the WA community. We recognise that language has progressed and evolved since some of these articles were written.

Useful resources

How a boudoir photography shoot made me feel seen.

Target audience:Women, Everyone

An Introvert’s Guide to Dating as an Introvert

Target audience:Everyone

Hepatitis WA: Tattoos – Trendy, edgy, artsy… risky?

Target audience:Everyone

Why I Teach Sex Ed – YEP Crew Blog Post: Jordina

Target audience:Everyone

Cultural Conversations at Headspace Armadale – YEP Crew Blog Post by Darci

Target audience:Young people, youth workers, members of the youth sector

Let’s Pierce the Patriarchy! – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Women

Bloody Cults! – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Everyone

YEP Crew Blog Post – Fatema: “So…will I get the talk or nah?”

Target audience:Young people

YEP Comic Strip Campaign Week #1: “Me…Waiting for THE TALK…”

Target audience:Young people

We’re all different shapes & sizes! – YEP Crew Blog: Tahnae Keyser

Target audience:Everyone

How I found a Treasure Chest of Sexual Health Knowledge – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

“The Sex is a LIE! What you see on TV isn’t real!” – YEP Volunteer Blog Post: Julia

Target audience:Everyone

Being in a Woman’s Heels – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Women

Movie Time! A review of ‘Moolaadé’ – YEP Crew Blog Post: Golda

Target audience:Everyone

So…you had unprotected sex, what to do next? – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

A Guide on the Mystical Task of Friend-Making – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Young people

Growing up without ‘THE TALK’…Is it really something you need to know? – YEP Volunteer Blog Post: Vanessa

Target audience:Young people

6 Things You Should Know About Losing Your Virginity – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Young people

Trying to B-Positive about Donating Blood – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Everyone

YMCA WA Youth Parliament Saying No to Online Harassment – YEP Crew Blog Post: Darci

Target audience:Everyone

“I didn’t know I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome” – YEP Crew Blog Post: Julia

Target audience:People with uterus'

Being Single in the 21st Century – YEP Crew Blog Post: Darci

Target audience:Everyone

Hepatitis WA: We can CURE Hepatitis C – YEP Youth & SHBBV Sector Blog Post: Bianca

Target audience:Everyone

Creating Safe Spaces in Mandurah – YEP Crew Blog Post: Fatema

Target audience:Youth workers

The Positive Power of Peers – YEP Crew Blog Post: Susan

Target audience:Youth workers

HERO Condoms – YEP Crew Blog Post: Amelia

Target audience:Everyone

YEP/headspace Forum on ‘The Link Between Sexual Health & Mental Health’ – YEP Crew Blog Post: Julia

Target audience:Everyone

‘Every Body, Every Mind Summit’, a Reflection of my Sexual Health Journey – YEP Crew Blog Post: Vithan

Target audience:Everyone

APP-ealing World – YEP Crew Blog Post: Matthew

Target audience:Young people

Carley, WAAC: Partying Safe with Leavers 2017 – YEP Youth & SHBBV Sector Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

Try It Without Your Eyes & Ears – Sex from a New Perspective – YEP Volunteer Blog: Vanessa

Target audience:Everyone

National Condom Day – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year! – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

What’s in a Name? – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

What it means when your doctor asks you if you’re ‘Sexually Active?’ – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone, young people

Hip Hop Culture – 2018 or Gayteen? – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Young people

“Not quite a Taylor Swift break up album, but it’s my way…” – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Young people

So how do we define sex? – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

SHQ: Sexual Ethics & Flower Petals – YEP Youth & SHBBV Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

A Guide to ‘Lightening Your Vagina’ 101 – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Young people

What is Incontinence? – YEP Crew Supporter Blog Post

Target audience:Women

What can I talk to Youth Workers About? – The YEP Project

Target audience:Young people

5 Reasons You Need to Watch Netflix’s Sex Education (and one reason you should definitely NOT)

Target audience:Everyone

“Surf & Sex Ed = SurfEd” – YEP Youth & SHBBV Sector Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

What is HPV? – YEP Crew Blog Post

Target audience:Everyone

Dating Apps to Friend Apps – Could you find your next BFF?

Target audience:Young people

What is Sexual Health?

What is Sexual Health? Pt 2

The YEP Project – SiREN Talks

Happy Holidays

Sex positivity

Wheatbelt Regional Trip

OMG I love this question

STI Testing Date

Referral Resource

2024 Ins & Outs

Happy World Org@sm Day

YEP recognises the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation as the Traditional Owners of land on which our office is located, and we pay our respects to the many custodians of all the beautiful lands that we live and work on.

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