I Do Consent Podcast

Today's guest is Sandrine Monin, choreographer and founder of Unbound Dance Theatre. Sandrine's 2023 project Feathers, integrating visually impaired dancers led to an exploration of touch, and a realisation that the professional dance industry has often shown little consideration for consent and bodily autonomy. We explore this in conversation, and notice how work like hers is beginning to change...

This was a lively (and slightly sweary in places) conversation with Heidi about the ways standards in schools and mainstream education authorities (in the UK context) can become coercive and even harmful for some young people and their families. Heidi describes herself as a late-identified, neurodivergent adult - she is a public speaker, advocate, author, podcaster, and parent to an Autistic/ADHD...

I'm joined by Bigi who is a parenting coach, and a passionate advocate for approaches that centre the consent and personal agency of children and young people. We had a conversation full of ideas for fresh approaches and thoughts about the value of modelling consent in parent/care-giver and child relationships. There's so much to consider on this theme, we ran into a second episode. You can find B...

In the second part of my conversation with Bigi we talked about how and when children learn about embodied consent from their parents and care-givers. How do we enable young people to learn about sex and sexual consent, without the harmful lessons of shame or fear we might have learned from previous generations? You can find out more about Bigi and BG Parenting on the web - here is a blog post ins...

Continuing the conversation with Kitty Stryker on consent culture, we share thoughts on fear in relation to consent. We also consider how consent works in groups and communities. Check out Kitty Stryker's work including the excellent books on consent culture at www.consentculture.com Again, this episode has some swears in it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-do-consent .

There's a bit of swearing in this episode because Kitty and I get very passionate about consent and what it means to us. Kitty Stryker is one of the originators of the concept of 'consent culture', and has authored/edited 2 books on it already: "Ask - Building Consent Culture" and "Ask Yourself - The Consent Culture Workbook". I (Jenn Wilson) am a contributor to the second one and Kitty's new book...

Launching Season 2 on the International Day of Consent 30 November 2023 The Consent Compass is a new framework I've been working on for over a year. This is designed to help you with navigating choices, decisions, consent and consensus - and to explore the transformative possibilities of practicing consent, making positive changes from the personal to the global. In this short episode I talk throu...

A quick reminder that we approach the International Day of Consent 2023 (30th November), founder Jenn Wilson brings a new model for consent practice, some great themes and guests, and a fresh approach to the IDoConsent podcast. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-do-consent .

Content note: mentions assault In this episode, performing artist Kit Green talks about their assault in a dressing room, the pressure to continue and perform on stage, and the ways arts and performance venues could improve their consent practices to improve safety for the artists they host. NOTE - when this episode was recorded in 2021, Kit Green was mainly performing under the name Chris Green o...

Jenny discusses the challenges of ethical/consensual non-monogamy with Giulia, and highlights the need for support for polyamorous communities to navigate and remove the stigma from consensual non-monogamous approaches to loving relationships. Recorded in November 2021 and released in autumn 2022, Giulia has since gone on to found the support organisation UK Polyamory Association. https://ukpolyam...

Jenny and Malcolm discuss the mental health support programme 'Mind Your Head' run by Happy Valley Pride in Yorkshire, and the ways consent impacts on mental well-being, particularly for LGBTQIA+ communities - - - Malcolm has worked with a variety of public and private sector organisations in a range of communications, marketing, and management roles (including the Equal Opportunities Commission,...

Consent educator Grainne Carr talks about embodied consent, how useful and important it can be to know what consent feels like in practice, and how we practice that ourselves and educate others to know in our bodies what consent is. https://grainnecarr.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-do-consent .

Jacob Mirzaian and Sophie Powell share their experiences of running consent workshops with young people to create a Zine... and how the zine became entitled "Consent Is Weird" Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-do-consent .

This special International Women's Day episode is a full hour long, to include many voices, all from women in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK. This diverse group express different aspects of consent as we emerge from the Covid pandemic. They discuss identity, social expectations, parenting, domestic violence, online dating, disability, cultural differences and respect, considering how we can use our agenc...

In this special short podcast for the holidays, Jenny Wilson offers a few ideas for practising consent at Christmas time and over the holidays. This content is suitable for everyone... share it with your kids and your grannies! Please support this podcast so we can keep recording new episodes and share them throughout 2022 - thank you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-do-consent .

Episode 5 explores consensual language. Jenny is in conversation with Rivca Rubin, instigator of Upwording: a global appeal for change to a desirable world for all by evolutionising thinking through everyday use of language "Our communications today are still riddled with phrases and concepts that cultivate hierarchies and uphold inequalities. If our intention is to move to environments that nurtu...

Jenny is in conversation with Sian Johnson, about her work as a sexological body worker and intimacy coach, working with men as clients. Together they discuss the assumptions and expectations that can get in the way of enjoying authentic intimacy and good sex. They explore how men can be harmed by these assumptions and expectations, and how people of all genders could benefit from improving commun...

In conversation with the wonderful Betty Martin, we explore sexuality and consent; the power of giving and receiving consent - and separating out those two feelings; consensual sex work; and an introduction to the core principles of Betty's concept: The Wheel of Consent. Dr. Betty Martin has had her hands on people professionally for over 40 years, first as a Chiropractor and upon retiring from th...

In episode 2, Jenny is in conversation with Kitty Stryker, the USA based activist, writer and educator who co-curated the 2020 Online International Festival of Consent and continues to work with Jenny to champion the International Day of Consent. Together they discuss what consent culture means to them, personally and politically. Kitty Stryker has been working on defining and creating consent cul...

Welcome to the I Do Consent Podcast with Jenny Wilson. In this introductory episode, Jenny talks through the Consent Manifesto and why she instigated the International Day of Consent, and offers the FRIES framework as a core tool for navigating and practicing consent. FRIES stands for: Freely given Reversible Informed Engaged Specific Jenny talks through the framework, which is the basis for her w...