Go2K: Fostering Sexual Agency & Consent Culture Among College Students

Sexual consent policies and students’ actual lived experiences are not aligned. The (U.S.) statistic indicating one in five women collegians will experience sexual assault during study has already stagnated for over 60 years (Adams-Curtis & Gordon, 2004; Muelenhard et al., 2017)—despite countless studies and interventions intended to end it—is indicative of a power structure maintaining sexual violence as common and normal within and beyond academic and co-curricular institutional spaces. The causes and effects of sexual coercion and assault are multidimensional, as are the thinking and action required for transformation. This webinar will provide attendees with an overview of a novel research program focused on sexual consent communication and negotiation among college students. We will share findings and implications from research interviews with Cisgender, Queer, and Kinky students of various racial and ethnic identities. Finally, implications for programs, policies, and practices will be discussed.

Objectives

• Become familiar with a promising line of action research focused on students’ belief systems and intimate lived experiences of sexuality and consent.
• Understand conflicts between legal/policy expectations and intimate experiences of students’ amorous and sexual encounters.
• Foundational information helpful in engaging students in reflections about their early learning about sexuality and its impact on their social/sexual experiences in college.
• Overview of provocative yet critical issues and students’ beliefs about sexual consent Ideas for building students’ capacity for empowered sexual consent or refusal.
• Learn about how LGBTQ and Kink-engaged students approach consent and implications for consent and sexual agency more generally.

Source: Go2Knowledge

For more information and to register for this webinar, visit go2knowledge.org.

N.B., in order to view this free webinar, you must sign up using your Langara email at go2knowledge.org