Ask: Building Consent Culture

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.

Author: Kitty Stryker
Publisher: Thornapple Press
Published: 10/27/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781944934255
ISBN10: 1944934251
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Essays

About the Author

Kitty Stryker is a writer, activist and authority on developing a consent culture in alternative communities. She is the founder of ConsentCulture.com, a hub for LGBT, kinky and polyamorous folks looking for a sex critical approach to relationships, and one of the first people to talk about what a consent culture was and could be. Kitty is the editor of Ask: Building Consent Culture. She co-founded the arty sexy party Kinky Salon London, as well as creating the award-winning Ladies High Tea and Pornography Society. Head of cosplay for queer gaming convention GaymerX, Kitty currently spends a lot of her copious free time playing tabletop role-playing games with her two cats in Oakland, CA. She identifies as an anarchist, asexual, and sober, and while she sometimes serves her community as a street medic, she's happiest drinking tea and reading Emma Goldman to her small garden.