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Safe/Ward Blog Carnival 2, Part 3: Porn and Prejudice (trigger warning)
So this post will bring the second Safe/Ward blog carnival to a close- please check out part 1 and part 2, and thank you for all who contributed by sharing deeply personal stories. I felt like this...
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Guest Post: Why Talking About “Gray” Situations Causes Anger
This is a fabulous guest post from the window on Fetlife. I’m really glad I got permission to post it here, as I feel like it’s one of the most concise explanations for why people get defensive when...
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Guest Post: Consent and the Derail of False Accusations
This was an excellent post on Fetlife by @hockeysub08 that I asked to repost here, because I felt it was really relevant to discussions about consent and how to move forward. Also, for some reason the...
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NCSF Believes Consent Counts
When I read the below, I actually cried. I felt like finally, the work we’ve been fighting to do is being validated as important- including by Fetlife themselves. NCSF’s Consent Counts project was...
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Street Harassment and Catcalling
I’ve had multiple people lead me to this video in the past couple days, which I think is kind of amazing: It’s worth saying that I don’t think I have ever had a guy step in while I was being catcalled...
View ArticleConsent Culture: Let’s Review
So in the interest of my own mental health I stepped away from Consent Culture discussions for a few weeks. I’m happy to see that people are still thinking critically about what consent means, both...
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The Red Card/Yellow Card Project
A friend of mine posted about this project she was doing on her Facebook wall. When I saw it, I got really excited. One of the things I hear a lot about boundaries and negotiations is that people are...
View ArticleInforming Consent
Originally posted Feb. 8, 2011, and now posted here as I feel it’s important to reflect on how issues of consent and accountability can also be used to marginalize people with disabilities. I still...
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Guest Post: Monika from Sexploration With Monika Shares!
Monika from the awesome radio show Sexploration with Monika offered to guest post with three of her most recent shows discussing consent culture in various sex-related contexts, and I jumped at the...
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Bigmouth Strikes Again
Meanwhile, Fetlife explodes as man who was banned from one community for burglary now stands accused of sexual assault in another community. GOOD THING WE CAN’T NAME NAMES! OTHERWISE IT’D BE A WITCH...
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A Confession
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here in Consent Culture, in part because I’ve honestly felt a little embarrassed and triggered by this project, as much as I still consider this work important. I...
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Trigger Warning: Facebook
Adverts for their products appeared next to a group captioned “I like her for her brains” below a woman lying with a pool of blood around her head, and another titled “Violently Raping Your Friend Just...
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Take Aim And Gun Down Creepshots
So there’s a Tumblr/Twitter calling itself “Creepshots”. The social media arena is just an offshoot from their site. Let me let them explain what they’re about with some bits from their “About Us”,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Sex Education- not just what you teach, but what you don’t
This is about a month later than it should have been because I’ve been swamped at work, but it’s still relevant and important to what’s going on in sex education in the UK and I wanted to make sure it...
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Pickup Artists: Still Proving to be Scumbags
So this is going to be pretty brief. Here’s a photo of three guys. They’ve been going around the University of Southern California sexually harassing women, including (sometimes especially) drunk...
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Radical Entitlement- Rape Culture at Burning Man
I’ve been to That Thing Out In The Desert, otherwise known as Burning Man, for 4 years. In theory, I love it, and I love what it stands for. I love art, and freedom, and creation, and silly costumes. I...
View ArticleGuest Post: Give Women Stability and Pickup Artists Lose
This guest post is brought to you by Amy Roberts, writer, performer, and general rad person, who posted about it on Facebook. I asked her to write an intro for us and she was gracious enough to accept!...
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Guest Post: Truth Against Humanity
When I initially played Cards Against Humanity with a mixed group, I was actually horrified by the ableism, racism, rape culture and sexism (among other things) set out as humourous by the game...
View ArticleConsent Thoughts from Lecture: Part 2
I talked a bit about my experiences at University of Birmingham, and their weekend about consent, in this post, focusing on explaining my presentation’s first two parts (on mainstream depictions of...
View ArticleWhat Dylan Farrow Teaches Us About Rape Cuture
I’ve spent the last few days entrenched in debates about Dylan Farrow, Woody Allen, and childhood sexual abuse. As pretty much everyone knows, Dylan wrote a letter stating Woody Allen, her father,...
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