COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 8.1 (Fall, 2013) Special Issue: YOUTH, SEXUALITY, HEALTH, AND RIGHTS, Guest Edited by Adela C. Licona and Stephen T. Russell The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: ARTICLES: "Transdisciplinary and Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses and Practices through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship and Action-Oriented Research" by Adela C. Licona and Stephen T. Russell "Education/Connection/Action: Community Literacies and Shared Knowledges as Creative Productions for Social Justice" by Adela C. Licona and J. Sarah Gonzales "Empower Latino Youth (ELAYO): Leveraging Youth Voice to Inform the Public Debate on Pregnancy, Parenting and Education" by Elodia Villasenor, Miguel Alcala, Ena Suseth Valladares, Miguel A. Torres, Vanessa Mercado, and Cynthia A. Gomez "Addressing Economic Devastation and Built Environment Degradation to Prevent Violence: A Photovoice Project of Detroit Youth Passages" by Louis F. Graham, Armando Matiz Reyes, William Lopez, Alana Gracey, Rachel C. Snow, Mark B. Padilla "Paying to Listen: Notes from a Survey of Sexual Commerce" by Rachel C. Snow, Angela Williams, Curtis Collins, Jessica Moorman, Tomas Rangel, Audrey Barick, Crystal Clay, and Armando Matiz Reyes "Moving Past Assumptions: Recognizing Parents as Allies in Promoting the Sexual Literacies of Adolescents through a University-Community Collaboration" by Stacey S. Horn, Christina R. Peter, Timothy B. Tasker, and Shannon Sullivan POETRY: "Public Speaking" by Niki Herd "Man" by Zack Taylor "Boom" by Sammy Dominguez and Zach Taylor ZINE: "Project Connect Zine" BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom, reviewed by Amanda Fields "Valuing Youth Voices and Differences through Community Literacy Projects" Review of Detroit Future Youth Curriculum Mixtape and Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self-Love for Brown Bois, reviewed by Londie T. Martin Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity, reviewed by Lorena Garcia"