#TakeRoot13: Consent, How Does It Work? Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Workshop

Panel from Take Root conference, red state perspectives on reproductive justice. Took place in Norman, Oklahoma, February 15 and 16, 2013.

  1. This workshop helps educate participants on how to negotiate consent, disclose STI status, and develop concrete communication strategies for healthier relationships.
  2. Facilitators: Jen Cox and Jordan Ward
  3. Initial proposal 4 consent workshop on #ou rejected by admin. didn't want 2 offend state conservatives/students can't handle #takeroot13
  4. Consent scenario discussions communicate w/partner. Don't assume consent is implied because the moment starts getting heavy #takeroot13
  5. consent: how does it work? you have a right to a safe, consensual sex life. #takeroot13
  6. frat boys should NOT be asking whats not gonna get me in trouble when discussing consent comes up #takeroot13 #beadamnman #consent
  7. "We have not stigmatized our lungs the way we have stigmatized our genitals" - @CuteRedHood #takeroot13
  8. STI's are a biological reality, not a moral reality #takeroot13
  9. #takeroot13 STIs are a biological issue not a moral reality! Stop morally stigmatizing people with STIs!
  10. when you try to change the situation, question motive or actions we are fully experiencing rape culture at its finest #takeroot13
  11. The sexualization of the submissive woman & putting rape blame on a woman. the consequences of drinking is drunk, not rape. #takeroot13
  12. "The consequences of drinking is drunk, not rape." - @CuteRedHood speaking truth to victim-blaming #takeroot13
  13. consent matters to everyone not just one gender over another #takeroot13
  14. I really, really wish my sister could be here, even for just this panel on consent. She needs to hear this. #takeroot13
  15. people need 2 realize freezing is the most common response 2 assault situations. it is ok & it still does not make it ur fault #takeroot13
  16. @UofOklahoma adding sexual assault to school alcohol awareness training isnt good enough its time for real policy changes #takeroot13
  17. silence doesnt lead to change speaking up, getting pissed off and pissing off the authority leads to change #takeroot13
  18. Audience member w/daughter recent victim asking how to fight w/a system unwilling to help her get justice #heartbreaking #takeroot13
  19. what is it going to take in to get the university systems really serious about addressing sexual assaults #takeroot13 #findyouranger
  20. police departments need to stop making people choose between healing & justice in the instance of rape/assault #takeroot13 #findyournanger

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1) historian of slavery in 17th c Caribbean. 2) progressive. 3) @flyoverfeminism 4) #prochoice / @kyboomu 5) tennis fan. 6) romance novel reader/reviewer.

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