keep it consensual: ask first!
(con)sensual is a dynamic, sex-positive campaign about enthusiastic consent. The campaign works to create safe spaces for dialogue on consent, educate college students about consent and their sexual rights, and encourage young people to integrate consent into their sexual practices. We love sex, and we love you. We live online here and on Twitter. (Our website is on the way.)
(con)sensual currently lives at American University in Washington, DC, where it was founded in 2009. The campaign will be available to all campuses nationwide within the year.
twitter.com/keepconsensual:
Love & Rage: CONSENT WORKSHOP RESOURCES!
- Learning Good Consent Zine: http://zinelibrary.info/learning-good-consent
- Learning Good Consent Zine: http://zinelibrary.info/learning-good-consent
- Let’s Talk About Consent Baby Zine: http://anarchalibrary.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-talk-about-consent-baby-zine.html
- The Fantasy of Acceptable Non-Consent: Why the Female Sexual Submissive Scares Us (And Why She Shouldn’t)—this is the rad BDSM-oriented article I had available: http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/113745/the_fantasy_of_acceptable_’non-consent’:_why_the_female_sexual_submissive_scares_us_(and_why_she_shouldn’t)/
- Empower Yr Sexy Self Zine (DIY sexuality zine, yeah!):http://fuckyeahradicalliterature.tumblr.com/post/867101923/zine-empower-yr-sexy-self-a-workbook
- Support Zine (a really intense, sometimes-triggering, but beautiful and extremely helpful and inspiring zine about surviving and thriving after experiencing sexual assault):http://www.phillyspissed.net/node/18
- How to Put Together your own Consent Workshop - http://zinelibrary.info/how-put-together-your-own-consent-workshop
(Source: complexuality, via mindovermatterzine)
Too many play what I call the stoplight game. Traffic signals, of course, have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution, green for go. Good drivers are taught to stop on “red,” which functions as a “no.” But of course, even at the busiest urban intersections, no light stays red indefinitely. If you wait long enough at a stoplight, every red will become green. And when all we do is teach young men that “no means stop” when it comes to sexual boundaries, we often send them the message that if they just wait long enough (or pester, push, nag, beg, play passive-aggressive games) they’ll get the “green light” they’re so hungry for.
(Source: treesong, via goodconsentrules)
hello people we love very much:
we’re looking to expand our team. and that means we’re looking at you.
we need:
+ people to be a part of our tumblr team (AKA scour tumblr for good content, or reblog the content of your own dashboard to our shiny tumblr!)
+ people to write about consent for us on an upcoming campaign blog (meaning news, opinion, and personal testimony writing about sex, consent, and/or sexual violence, sex-positivity, sex, sex, etc.)
If you’re interested, shoot an email to carmen [at] keepitconsensual [dot] org. If you’re interested in being on the tumblr team, please shoot the message from your login email.
I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/
Thanks everyone!
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Can you tell the difference between a men’s magazine and a rapist? | Jezebel
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WHY IS IT SEXY?
Just seen our old posters on your blog - please see our NEW posters at consentissexy.net and tell us what you think! (see some samples attached). Thanks for the post and good luck with your campaign! Be sure to let us know when it launches.
