Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expression While Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as “helpless” or “risky” (or worse) suggest. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena Garcia examines how Latina girls negotiate their emerging sexual identities and attempt to create positive sexual experiences for...
Our populace is separated between the sexes; Males, the celebrated sex, and females, the despised sex. My name is Aqulune, though I am recounting this tale, it is not about me. This is simply my way of reaching citizens and opening their eyes to the injustice and cruelty of our catalytic society embodying her story of struggle and pain.
