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title: Heather Corinna
date: 2023-12-04T17:32:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
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[Who We Are](/who-we-are)# Heather Corinna

Content Expert Chair  
 Content Expert, Chair, [Sexualities, Gender, and Relationships](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/sexualities-gender-relationships)  
 Content Expert, Chair, [Sexual Anatomies & Sexual Health](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/sexual-anatomies-sexual-health)

![Headshot of Heather Corinna](data:image/png;base64,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)

[Heather Corinna](https://www.heathercorinna.com) (they/them) is a queer and nonbinary feminist activist, author, educator, artist, and organizer. They are the founder, director, designer and editor of the web clearinghouse and organization [Scarleteen](https://www.scarleteen.com), the first comprehensive sex, sexuality and relationships education site and resource of its kind, in operation since 1998.

Heather is also the author of the inclusive, comprehensive and progressive sex, sexual health and relationships book for young adults, "S.E.X: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties" (2007, 2017), now in its second edition; with Isabella Rotman, "Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up" (2019), for older middle readers and younger teens; and "What Fresh Hell is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You" (2021).

They have been an early childhood educator, a sexuality, contraception, and abortion educator and counselor, a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Sexuality Education, and the board of directors for NARAL Pro-Choice Washington.

Heather was a writer and contributing editor for the 2011 edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves." They were a plaintiff for the ACLU where they eventually got to stick it to the Bush administration, which was one of their Best Days Ever.

They are navigating middle age and all it entails with as much grace as they can muster (spoiler: not much), and currently live and work in their hometown on the unceded land of Chicago.

> The work I have done with Scarleteen and my books is work I feel certain I would never had done without the foundation for doing this kind of work, this way, that the original Our Bodies Ourselves built. Maintaining the incredible legacy of OBOS and bringing it into its new era with OBOS Today is incredibly important to me. Working in sex and sexuality is my life's work, and being able to do that here is a dream.

![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)### *Why You Can* **Trust Us** 

- We rigorously evaluate all content
- We embrace a reproductive justice framework
- We don’t accept ads or sell products
- We reject funding from the pharmaceutical industry
- We counter misinformation and disinformation
- We address the social, political, and economic factors that affect health and sexuality

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