Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era by Trevor Hoppe, Shantel Gabrieal Buggs

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

An excellent collection of essays on consent, Unsafe Words examines what consent looks like outside heteronormative situations. Essays range from the academic to the deeply personal, and are split into two parts. Part one covers consent and what it looks like outside heterosexual norms, in the dark rooms of gay bars and the workplaces of sex workers and the relationships among strangers and intimates. Many essays cover how consent and relationships can work, and how their rules become different, when it comes to their very existence, whether it is queer and/or kinky, being stigmatized for merely existing. Part two covers consent when it is not given, either implicitly or explicitly, and discuss what can be done when sexual harm happens. Many of these essays are difficult to read, but important to understand how we deal with sexual harm, and how we treat victims, is severely lacking. 

All the essays are wonderful, informative, and are important to dissect and to understand the complexities of human personal relations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence