Recently, students at the University of Texas in Austin hosted a free screening of the film Abstinence Comes to Albuquerque.  The film event was a means by which the students raised awarness about the abstinence-only policies being implemented in Texas and offered students a chance to get educated on how to do something about it.  The students who ran the event were members of the Advocates for Youth Texas Youth Leadership Council and members of the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter.

On Wednesday, the Texas Youth Leadership Council, the Cultural Advocacy and Mobilization Initiative of Texas, hosted a rally on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin.  The Advocates for Youth group also hosted the event with the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter and Voices for Choice.

The group had a goal of getting 500 signatures on petitions for comprehensive sex-ed and they exceeded it.  The groups were able to obtain 350 signatures on their Education Works petition, a Texas-specific campaign for comprehensive sex-ed as well as 350 signatures on the peiution for the REAL Act.

The student group was featured on the front page of the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper.  Make sure to check out the story here.

Altogehter the group rallied 700 voices for sex-ed.  Even in Texas, students are standing up, speaking out and demanding medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education.  Our generation has a powerful voice and a meaningful message, and its up to us to make sure it's heard.