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Boys who ask better questions

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The first version of our schools workshop was a talk. It was accurate, it was well-meant, and it changed very little. The second version is a conversation, and it begins by asking fifteen-year-olds what they have already seen.

What follows is rarely comfortable. It is, however, honest — and honesty is the only place from which anything shifts.

“Nobody had ever asked us what we thought. They only told us what not to do.”

Prevention work is slow and its results are hard to photograph. But teachers tell us the questions in the room have changed, and that is where change of this kind always starts.

If any of this is familiar, you can talk to us. Nothing has to be decided first.

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