"As teenagers today navigate increasingly fluid identities and
choices, there is a demand for an accessible, interactive tool to help
share knowledge about sex and sexual health; one that demystifies the
facts and speaks frankly about experiences whose lessons often fall into
the grey areas.
Since 2008, Miller and Bley have held an open call for young people
to create comics that address a variety of topics involved with sex
education. We have since produced several issues of a sex-ed comic
called Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf. The work is chosen from a
vastly varied group of submissions and attempts to challenge hetero and
gender normative practices in sex education. The comics address topics
like body image, safer sex, consent, and relationships, from positions
that have historically been left out of sex education.
These graphically illustrated personal narratives address different
themes, such as “Firsts,” “Bodies,” “Health,” “Age,” and “Endings.” The
book will bring together the best of the material from the Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf comics, along with new graphic stories and writing by the editors providing personal and sociological background."