We envision a world where children are at home in their bodies, in their relationships, and on Earth.

Living Earth

We are earthly beings.

Our wellbeing is intertwined with the wellbeing of rivers, salmon, lichen, insects and mountains.

We are of the Living Earth.

Sex Ed

Sexuality education is a collection of stories we tell one another about how we take care of our bodies, each other, and the Living Earth.

These stories give us the language and skills we need to uphold our responsibilities as earthly creatures.

Living Earth Sex Ed is a place to

  • gather and discuss bodies, boundaries, and sexuality

  • tell stories about how we can take care of our own and other people’s bodies

  • practice weaving our web of relations so we can create closeness and distance with those in our lives

  • spend time with the mystery of what sexuality is and what we want it to be

Meet Claire

For many generations, parents and caregivers have struggled to talk with their young children about sexuality. When adults don’t speak up about sexuality it places the responsibility of communication and education onto young children themselves, causing them to turn to the internet and peers for information and support.¹

The struggle many adults face in communicating about sexuality rooted in our own understanding of sexuality: how our families communicated about sexuality growing up, messages we have heard about sexuality from patriarchal, puritanical, white supremacist and colonial cultures, and how we experience sexuality in our own lives.

Even if we do not know what to say, how to say it or when to say it, caring adults can prepare, practice, and motivate one another to start conversations about sexuality at home.

Sexuality education can help children develop the skills it takes to caretake, steward, and protect their own bodies. Children can then use these skills to caretake, steward, and protect other people and living beings in their lives.

I am here to act as a bridge between generations, helping parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, therapists, and teachers communicate about sexuality with the children in their care.

My curriculum is queer and pleasure affirming and addresses how modern day phenomena such as social media, sexting, online dating, pornography, and artificial intelligence shape how children understand and experience sexuality.

My work focuses on adult-child communication in the younger years, ages 0-14. Many parents and sex ed programs start conversations and education after children have already heard about these topics from peers and the internet. I encourage parents and caregivers to start communicating and educating early so their kids do not have to manage it on their own.

My journey as a sexuality educator began in 2011 when I worked in the teen clinic at my community health center. I went on to train with and volunteer for Planned Parenthood in an educational teen theater troupe. I then completed my undergraduate degree at Oberlin College and spent the next five years teaching a diverse range of subjects to immigrant, refugee, disabled, and neurodiverse students only to return to sexuality education in 2021. I completed my certificate in Sexuality Education at the Antioch University of Seattle and the Our Whole Lives elementary training in 2022. In the spring of 2023 I started Living Earth Sex Ed. In 2024 I became an Anti-Incest Liberation Agent and a member of the organization Incest Aware.

My family and ancestors are from Belgium, Italy, Scotland, and England. Outside of sexuality education spaces, I find joy and meaning in dancing, making music, and learning from plants.

Living Earth Sex Ed is brought to life with the help of many entities. You can find a long and loving list of their names here.

¹Restless Development, Studies on sexuality education in the digital space, in collaboration with UNESCO. Unpublished.