‘Everything Your Mother Should Have Told You about Your PocketBook…But Didn’t’

PocketBook Communications presents…
‘Everything Your Mother Should Have Told You about
Your PocketBook…But Didn’t’

Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (JHCCICS)
Northeastern Illinois University
700 East Oakwood Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois, 60653
773.268.7505

Chicago…In a first-of-its-kind study, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed that 1 in 4 teenage girls in the United States has a least one sexually-transmitted disease. The trend is even worse among African-American girls: Nearly half have one or more sexually-transmitted diseases.

The mission of The PocketBook Monologues is to provide a forum that addresses intimacy and responsibility with the purpose of reducing the number of HIV/AIDS cases for women of color.
Sharon McGhee, author of The PocketBook Monologues and director of the stage production perform excerpts featured in the book. Sharing the stage with McGhee to tell the stories of sexual abstinence, intimacy and responsibility is a trio of ‘PocketBook Ladies in Training’ from ages 13-17, who are affectionately known as ‘the Coin Purses’: Ramsey Carey, Aubriel Fields and Jazel Nance.

“I know it is uncomfortable for parents to talk with their children about sexuality and responsibility, so we are stepping in to provide structure to ensure that girls and women understand the truth and consequences about being intimate in the 21st century,” expressed McGhee.

For more information, contact PocketBook Communications, 773.960.6148.

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