This is the most recent NCSH quarterly social media campaign, which includes sample sexual health content that you can use and/or adapt for your digital and social media channels. The campaign contains three parts:
Part 1: Our theme for this campaign is Sexual Health in the Media. It includes tweets relating to general sexual health information in the media, common sexual health misinformation, representation in the media, sexual health online, and sexual health in pop culture.
Part 2: This features sample tweets in support of key health observances, holidays, and other cultural milestones that will be taking place over the next three months.
Part 3: This NEW section includes social media graphics to accompany Parts 1 and 2. This part of the document contains links to graphics on Canva that are designed for Instagram but can be reformatted for other social media sites if desired.
The key observances for this quarter include:
- National Native/Indigenous Heritage Month (November)
- Trans Parent Day (Nov 5)
- Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19)
- Thanks, Birth Control (Nov 15)
- Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov 18-26)
- Trans Day of Remembrance (Nov 20)
- Thanksgiving Day (Nov 23)
- National Day of Mourning (Nov 23)
- Black Friday (Nov 24)
- Cyber Monday (Nov 27)
- Giving Tuesday (November 28)
- International HIV/AIDS Awareness Month (December)
- National Safe Toys and Gifts Month (December)
- World AIDS Day (Dec 1)
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3)
- Human Rights Day (Dec 10)
- Happy Holidays (throughout the quarter)
- New Year’s Eve (Dec 31)
- New Year’s Day (Jan 1)
- Cervical Health Awareness Month (January)
- National Stalking Awareness Month (January)
- Have you ever been shadow-banned for talking about sexual health topics, or for showing your body? You are NOT alone. Social media AI suppresses women’s bodies, disabled bodies, transand gender non-confirmingbodiesthe most— with little recourse. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodies
- Sex Education—the TV show, not the class—is answering teens’ questions about sex in a sex positive, frank, and engaging way.With so few states mandating comprehensive sex ed, TV shows like this are an important resource. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/22/it-answered-my-weird-sex-questions-what-teens-really-think-of-sex-education-netflix
- Did you know that @GLAAD monitors all LGBTQIA representation in media? Of the 659 regular characters on scripted programming for the 2022-2023 season, 70 characters (10.6 percent) are LGBTQ.Learn more: https://glaad.org/whereweareontv22
- Myth: using emergency contraception makes you infertile in the future. Emergency contraception myth vs fact from @Nurx: https://www.nurx.com/blog/morning-after-pill-myths-debunked/
- 💊💊It’s Antibiotic Awareness Week!💊💊Antibiotics can treat many common STIs such as gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and more. If you think you have an STI, talk with a provider about the next steps.
- DYK sex toys need to be cleaned after every use?Yes, even if it’s just you! Check out these tips on how to keep your toys clean #SafeToysMonthhttps://goop.com/wellness/sexual-health/how-to-clean-sex-toys/
- #Providers🩺: The holiday season can stir up emotions for many patients. Use @NCSH_’s trauma-informed care guide to make this season a bit brighter withmore compassion and understanding for everyone we treat https://nationalcoalitionforsexualhealth.org/tools/for-healthcare-providers/document/TIC_Clinical-Guide_Final_508Compliant.pdf
- 📊@weRnative’s survey found that about 82% of LGBTQ+ AI/AN youthhave fair or poor mental health. Let’s make sure they have the mental health support they need!Check out these amazing resourceshttps://www.wernative.org/resources
