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      <image:caption>Human Reproduction: The Stork and the Airplane An interactive workshop about all the ways that humans create new humans and make family. We’ll discuss sex, insemination, IVF, donors, and surrogates in equal measures; doing so will enable us to include every family structure inclusively and equally.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Male Stuff: The Good and the Gloppy This 90 minute workshop is designed for people who will soon begin or have recently begun puberty (and producing sperm). Participants will come away with a greater appreciation for their amazing bodies. The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in the topic, regardless of their sex or gender.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Female Stuff: The Good and The Gooey This 90 minute workshop is designed for people who will soon begin or have recently begun their period. Participants will come away with a greater appreciation for their amazing bodies. The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in the topic, regardless of their sex or gender.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Your Fertility Matters</image:title>
      <image:caption>From the British Fertility Society, an explanation of fertility for adolescents - when can you get pregnant? Is it possible to get pregnant when you are on your period? When in your cycle are you most likely to get pregnant? What impacts your fertility?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Your Fertility Matters</image:title>
      <image:caption>From the British Fertility Society, an explanation of fertility for adolescents - when can you get pregnant? Is it possible to get pregnant when you are on your period? When in your cycle are you most likely to get pregnant? What impacts your fertility?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Alease the Embryologist</image:title>
      <image:caption>Follow the day in the life of an embryologist, as Alease explains sperm washing, IVF, ICSI, how eggs, sperm and embryos are frozen and stored, and a whole lot more.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - The Donor Sibling Registry (DSR)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Resources from The Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) organization include a website, educational materials, published research, and books - including a children's book written for donor-conceived children with information about half-siblings and donors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Time to Tell (donor conception)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Time to tell workshop and resources for parents about when and how to talk to kids about donor conception, from VARTA.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - We are Donor Conceived Magazine</image:title>
      <image:caption>A ton of resources and information about donor conceived people, recipient parents, gamete donors, academics, and fertility industry specialists. Their magazine highlights the lived experiences of those conceived via egg and sperm donation. They also. have a detailed bibliography of websites, books, articles, op ed pieces, podcasts, movies, tv shows and more - all about donor conception, from the perspective of donor conceived people, donors, and all the families involved.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Resources about assisted reproduction for parents, donor conceived people, donors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Fertility Technologies Shaping Modern Families</image:title>
      <image:caption>A video from the British Fertility Society, depicting all different kinds of individuals and relationships and how they can use donors, surrogates and IVF to create families.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Colage provides resources and services to people with at least one LGBTQ+ parent. Donor Conceived is an updated resource for those born through donor conception and/or surrogacy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Gonads plunges into the mysterious world of human reproduction”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources Gallery - Non-traditional families bibliography</image:title>
      <image:caption>A complete bibliography from Patricia Sarles of kid’s books about egg, sperm and embryo donation, surrogacy, gestational carriers, insemination, IVF, single-parent families, same sex couples, and other books about human reproduction and family formation</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A sweet video for elementary school aged kids, about donor conception, created by Sharon Leya - writer of over 30 picture books on the topic.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustrations by the talented Mel Latthitham Nonfiction, Age: 11-18, Grade: 6-12, 144 Pages, Lerner Publishing Group/Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rachel’s next writing project is underway. With a newly signed contract from Lerner Publishing, Rachel will be spending 2026 researching, learning and writing about death.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources - Your Fertility Matters</image:title>
      <image:caption>From the British Fertility Society, an explanation of fertility for adolescents - when can you get pregnant? Is it possible to get pregnant when you are on your period? When in your cycle are you most likely to get pregnant? What impacts your fertility?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Additional Resources - Alease the Embryologist</image:title>
      <image:caption>Follow the day in the life of an embryologist, as Alease explains sperm washing, IVF, ICSI, how eggs, sperm and embryos are frozen and stored, and a whole lot more.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A sweet video for elementary school aged kids, about donor conception, created by Sharon Leya - writer of over 30 picture books on the topic.</image:caption>
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