The book offers practical exercises that delve into the significance of consent in navigating and challenging power dynamics encountered in everyday situations. It emphasizes the importance of understanding and applying consent as a tool for empowerment and social change. Through engaging activities, readers are encouraged to reflect on their interactions and the impact of consent in various contexts, fostering a deeper awareness of personal agency and collective responsibility.
Focusing on the concept of consent culture, this bundle features insights from prominent advocates and offers practical exercises for readers to engage in personal reflection and growth. The structured workbook encourages active participation, helping individuals explore their understanding and practices related to consent.
Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture--and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today's world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. In Ask, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers, journalists, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom, whether it's at the doctor's office, interacting with law enforcement, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power.
