American Progress welcomes this month's feature film, The Education of Shelby Knox, produced and directed by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt. Shelby Knox is a coming of age story about a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas.
As Shelby is swept into the fight, she begins to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing; when the campaign broadens to include a fight for a gay-straight alliance, Shelby confronts her family and her pastor, in the end declaring herself a feminist and a liberal Christian.
Shelby Knox will be at the Reel Progress screening on May 24, 2005 at the Center for American Progress.
Teen pregnancy rates in Lubbock are among the highest in the state of Texas. Read more facts and statistics, and find out what you can do.