Gary McCulloch, Antonio F. Canales, and Hsiao-Yuh Ku, Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education

and asexual youth (and of course the young people who occupy multiple identities), and the sex education that they themselves might particularly desire -can those desires be met in sanitised, heteronormative, ableist public school spaces?Ultimately, Bialystok argues, "the kind of sex education that young people need, and that schools can provide, is comprehensive without trying to be exhaustive, factual without being heartlessrather than try to teach young people everything there is to know about sex and sexuality as though in preparation for some cosmic multiple-choice test, schools should focus on equipping young people to be literate members of the sexual world and ethical participants in all their relationships" (160-161).The authors close the book by arguing, "everyone needs and deserves good sex education, but good sex education is also an equity issue of paramount importance" (167).Throughout the book, I found myself underlining and annotating moments that reminded me of the current state of sexuality education in New Brunswick, where I have found myself teaching comprehensive sex education methods to preservice teachers, as well as researching the supports and barriers to sexuality education with teachers in the system over the past few years.One such moment is reflected in rhetoric about parents.Andersen suggests that mid-century American "school administrators, in turn, tended to assume that an angry phone call was the harbinger for an angry mob, whether the initial phone call came from a district parent or someone in a whole other state" (57).Last spring in New Brunswick, the education minister and premier publicly proclaimed that they received "hundreds of emails" complaining about gender and sexual diversity and inclusivity in schools, which later turned out to be, in fact, three emails. 11Le plus a change.Given the current climate, increasing parents' rights discourses, and moral panicking from Canada, the US, and elsewhere,