Introduction
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14680770600990051
ISSN1471-5902
Autores Tópico(s)LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements I would like to thank the many readers and listeners whom I have never met but signposted advice to over the years. To Annie Auerbach, Dotun Adebayo, and Simon Geller for enabling me to give advice online, in print, and on air. To Will Callaghan for encouraging critical reflection and helping me to understand journalism. Notes 1. MTV Base © and Channel U © are satellite music television channels showing videos from the American Hip Hop, R'n'B and British Crime Music genres, popularly consumed by young people of varying ethnic backgrounds in the UK. 2. "Slack" and "slackness" here refers to the ways that behaviour was deemed to be licentious by the young women researched and reflected a particular form of ragga prevalent at the time of interview which was known popularly as "slack lyrics"—music which both congratulated and derogated Black women for their tendencies to participate in lengthy sexual marathons and censored women for the size and shape of genitalia. Interestingly, young African Caribbean women aged between 14 and 20 were among the largest consumers of "slack lyrics" in the early 1990s. 3. Elsewhere I have noted the means through which "mixedness" as a discourse, and embodied in the relationships between Black males and White females, disrupted the rigid definitions of Blackness and Whiteness employed by the young Black women I have spoken to (Weekes Citation1997, 2002), a disruption that not only has historical relevance (Ruth Frankenberg Citation1993; Barbara Tizard & Anne Phoenix Citation1993) and ignores the multiplicity of "mixed" experiences that transcend Black and White (Suki Ali Citation2003), but one which can preoccupy both Black and White females (and indeed males) alike (Valerie Hey Citation1997). 1. For instance, New Labour has repealed Section 28, issued new guidance on Sex and Relationship Education, or SRE (DFEE, Citation2000), supported new training schemes for teachers and given the subject new status and attention, most recently (June 2006) establishing the first National Subject Association for teachers of Personal, Social and Health Education. Other signs of sex education's new status include a journal (Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning), published since 2001. 1. From "One Minute Man," CitationMissy Elliot from the album Miss E So Addictive, 2001, Elektra Entertainment. 2. I am a non-clinical lecturer in International Health Care, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College Londonp.boynton@pcps.ucl.ac.uk; Website: http://www.psypress.co.uk/boynton/forum. I write and host a regular sex and relationships phone-in programme for BBC Radio 5 Live, am the Sex Editor at www.mansized.co.uk, and Agony Aunt at www.mykindaplace.com and African women's magazine Beauty Zambia.
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