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“Lynching Rapists”, or, How Not to Be An Ally
So after a discussion on Twitter between Consent Culture activist Maggie and a guy who goes by @crash_restraint, wherein he ended up harassing Maggie about consent culture and what we were doing- i...
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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...
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...
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Guest Post: Guilty By Association
Kitty Stryker here, bringing you a guest post from BoldlyGo that I felt strongly should be hosted here on Consent Culture. It discusses the various complications of friends who stay friends with those...
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On “We’ve All Been Abused & We’ve All Been Abusers”
I tried to find a gender neutral one of these, but this was all I found. Recently my attention was drawn to a piece, “Developing a Better Call-Out Culture“, that discusses call-out culture (which...
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...
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Not Waving, But Drowning: How WePay Failed Eden Alexander
UPDATE: We do have a new campaign set up here! We’ve heard from people at this fundraising site AND their payment processor and gotten their blessing, so it obviously CAN be done. “Cofounder and CEO...
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Yes. All Men.
image of Tank Girl by E-Mann at DeviantArt Elliot Rodger’s misogynist rampage has been on many people’s minds over the weekend. I’ve observed with interest the conversations that are being had, about...
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Guest Post: The T Word
I have read a lot on this topic, and my partner Phil wanted to write a piece of his own after one of our discussions. For additional context, I would also recommend reading Kate Bornstein’s piece, “Who...
View ArticleConsent Culture Briefs
-Art history – 500 years of women ignoring men. Good for a bit of a laugh! -Angelina Jolie, who just starred in Maleficent (which has its own rape metaphor), opened the Global Summit to End Sexual...
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Guest Post: On the costs of talking about consent
This guest post is from one of our contributors, who wanted to repost their writing here. I’m really glad to be getting more guest posts on here, so that we can begin to paint a fuller picture of what...
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Abusive White Male Tears: Crowdfunding Betrays Weird Morals
Massive trigger warnings about domestic violence (described and photographed), rape, rape apologism, entitlement culture, police Updates below in bold! I’ve written before on crowdfunding’s betrayal of...
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#JusticeForChristyMack and the Death of MMA’s Machine Age
Confront the toxic hypermasculinity of combat sports that enables intimate partner abuse without reproach or reprimand with this one WEIRD trick. Well, it’s more of a flurry of UNUSUAL sleight-of-hand...
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Calling Out, Calling In: Why Internet Activism Matters
There is an ongoing debate for the past couple years on whether or not online accountability processes are useful- if they are useful, in what ways, and if they aren’t useful, is there any way to...
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