Consent Fest is an annual fundraising livestream marathon on TwitchConsent Fest 2022: Dreaming Consent Cultures
was on Saturday, July 16. Check out the schedule (in Pacific time) -
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8 – 10am
Video games and casual chatting 10 – 10:30am Official Opening 10:30 – 11:15am Safer Sex Janina Vivianne 11:15 – 11:45am HP Loveshaft: Drag Performance and Discussion 11:45 – 12pm Dubcon: Consent is Non-binary elmyra 12 – 12:30pm Interviewing Mx. Chelsey Morgan, Intimacy Coordinator & Director, Sexuality & Justice Educator 12:30 – 1pm Psychedelics and Consent Ally Lee, Psychedelic Safety Alliance 1 – 1:15pm Raffle for Prizes! |
1:15 – 2:30pm
Consent Basics: Reddit Edition 2:30 – 3pm Ask a Therapist: Relationship Skills Sar Surmick, MFT, Consent Academy Director Emeritus 3:00 – 3:30pm Got Consent for Kink? Susan Wright and Seq, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom 3:30 – 3:45pm Pleasurable: If You Make it Accessible, We Will Come Sarah, Pleasurable 3:45-4:30pm Consent After Dark Mistress Cas 4:30-5:30pm VOICES of the Quality of Consent Intimate Victor 5:30-6pm Dreaming Consent Cultures Closing chat |
Couldn't make the event?
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Learn about our presenters:
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Janina VivianneJanina Vivianne is a editor and event organizer and educator. Based in Europe, her mission is to spread awareness on Safer Spaces, Body-positivity, and Accountability. Janina holds workshops on connection, intimacy, self-love, & body and sex-positivity. She is the mastermind behind The Parallel Universe – An Adult Playground Festival – and the Festival of Sensations.
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HP LoveshaftHP Loveshaft started performing in and producing drag shows in 2012 in California. In 2019, he moved to Berlin where he has worked full-time as a drag artist. In addition to his drag, he has also lectured on topics ranging from physics to human sexuality at various conferences in the States as well as locally. Over the last year, he has been focusing on making his work more accessible by producing video performances, publishing prior work online, and exploring live-stream performance. He now turns to the radio as a means to connect, drawing on his experience hosting full-length solo shows.
Before moving to Berlin, HP earned a degree in Astrophysics, with a minor in Queer Studies. While at university, he participated in Dr. Bullock's research group on Dwarf Galaxies, where he worked on computer simulations of galaxy formation, investigating hyper-nova explosions. This experience inspired him to enroll at Potsdam University, where he continues to study the cosmos. |
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elmyraelmyra is trying to make the world better by creating a culture of consent. Their main focus is research and public education on sexual consent in popular culture, and how our dominant cultural ideas about sex might impair our ability to give truly meaningful consent. elmyra's books, Sexual Consent and Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, Consent are published by MIT Press. Their musings on consent and representation in video games can be found on Twitch (elmyra23) and YouTube (elmyratube), and they occasionally still hang out on Twitter (@elmyra)
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Mx. Chelsey MorganMx. Chelsey Morgan, CSE (pronouns: they/them/xe/xem) is an Afro-Latinx, Neurodivergent, and Queer AASECT Certified Sexuality & Ante Up Certified Social Justice educator, cultural competency specialist, and intimacy director & coordinator. Their work specializes in topics under the umbrella of BDSM & Kink, LGBTQ+ intimacy, non-monogamy, trauma responsiveness and social justice and is guided by the intersectional, disability justice and transformative justice frameworks developed by black women and black trans scholars who have come before xem. They are specifically focused on how the work can serve to provide better representation and more equitable resources for members of the global majority in media.
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Ally Lee, Psychedelic Safety AllianceAlly Lee is a clinical social worker of 14 years who works closely with both the street and festival drug user communities.
Formerly the head of a chapter of Students For Sensible Drug Policy, Ally also works as a first responder and harm reduction educator at Burning Man and other large events. Her subfields of interest include mental health crisis intervention, overdose reversal, and translating academic literature into tactical safety protocols.
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Sar Surmick, MFT, Consent Academy Director EmeritusSar is an educator at heart: whether at the front of a class, speaking to a group or org, in the therapy room, working on a new book, or just walking down the street. With over 25 years of education experience and a strong belief that consent creates a backbone for safe and productive interactions, Sar teaches, consults, writes, and works on theory around Consent, Accountability, and Identity. When not teaching with the Academy, Sar works as a MFTherapist, writes, and does their best to understand people and the way we move through a difficult and complex world.
Sar helped bring the Consent Academy together in 2016 as a way to advance consent education in Seattle and across the world and was Director from 2016-2021. |
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Susan Wright
Susan Wright founded the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in 1997, and currently serves as Spokesperson and Director of Incident Reporting & Response. Susan also serves on the Advocacy and Community Advisory Committees for AASECT, the APA’s Division 44: Task Force on Consensual Non-monogamy, Kink Clinician Guidelines, and Diverse Sexualities Research Education Institute. Susan chaired the successful DSM-5 Revision Project which helped result in the consensual paraphilias being removed from the Paraphilic Disorders in 2013. Susan has also conducted seven research projects on discrimination and violence against BDSM practitioners; consent practices and attitudes; and the mental and physical health of BDSM and non-monogamy practitioners with papers published in professional journals, including the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sexual Medicine, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychiatry, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Journal of Positive Sexuality and Journal of Homosexuality.
SeqSeq (they/she) serves on the Board of Directors at the National Coalition For Sexual Freedom. They currently serve for the second year on the following committees at NCSF: DEI, Consent Counts, and Education Outreach. In Mid-2022 Seq was offered and accepted the Co-Chair position of the DEI Committee at NCSF and looks forward to helping further NCSF's vision. Seq is a passionate consent educator and cares deeply about harm reduction in our communities.
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Sarah Wiener, PleasurableSarah (she/they) is a disabled and neurodivergent agender femme who is passionate about accessibility, pleasure, compassion, information design, and education. As an artist and exhibition designer they enjoy collaborating on projects that combine data and expression that emphasize the nuances of lived experiences. They are a co-founder of Pleasurable; an organization dedicated to accessible and disability-focused sex education.
Information on Pleasurable can be found at: https://linktr.ee/getpleasurable |
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Mistress CasMistress Cas/Casandra is a mental health clinician-in-training, educator and consultant from Texas, who loves talking about consensual non-monogamy, kink, consent, and sexual/mental health with fellow weirdo's.
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Intimate VictorVictor is a genderqueer, polysexual, AMAB, mixed-race, Tamil, non-hierarchichal, non-monogamous, relationship anarchist, and intersectional feminist. Their sought-after content focuses on consent, anti-racism, and gender diversity. They espouse non-punitive solutions to harm including environmental and social improvements to communities and rehabilitation-by-degrees for harmful individuals.
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