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Nothing in Zheng Yichun's upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative title of his self-published 2002 collection of poems, The Era of Brainwashing, his work went mostly unnoticed...
...teenagers are having sex. Until schools and other organizations in positions of power acknowledge that sex is a part of life, it will continue to remain taboo, people will continue to be uninformed, and STDs and unintended pregnancies will continue to be problems plaguing America. People who can educate youth should (parents included), because otherwise it will continue to be the case that teenagers learn everything they know about sex through the grapevine. And in this case, that is not the best thing...
...night featured an array of non-traditional acts, including spoken word artists who have performed throughout the country. The performers related episodes from their experiences growing up as Asian American youth...
Many of the challenges they spoke of were unique to Asian Americans, such as parental pressure and the attempt to maintain their original identity while being an American, but they also spoke of issues that youth everywhere confront, including love, identity, and change...
...according to Savin-Williams, most gay kids are fairly ordinary. "Perhaps surprising to researchers who emphasize the suicidality, depression, victimization, prostitution, and substance abuse of gay youth, gay teenagers generally feel good about their same-sex sexuality," he writes. A 56-year-old gay man with a slightly elfish mien, Savin-Williams has interviewed some 350 kids with same-sex attractions, and he concludes that they "are more diverse than they are similar and more resilient than suicidal ... They're adapting quite well, thank...