Talking about consent can feel overwhelming, especially for young people who may be navigating their own boundaries for the first time. In Say More, consent culture activist Kitty Stryker guides teenagers in exploring what consent means to them. This timely and practical workbook allows the reader to work at their own pace and in their own way, with concrete examples from Kitty's own youth, prompts inspired by questions teens have asked her and comprehensive resources to encourage further exploration and introspection.
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Stryker goes beyond first-time and initial interactions, exploring such issues as "What's the Best Way to Tell Someone You've Changed Your Mind?" and "What Should I Do When I've Crossed Someone's Boundaries?" Features include a toolbox of strategies, checklists, consent tips, a bibliography, website guides, crisis resources, and a helpful glossary. This offers accessible and useful guidance for teens (and their parents), no matter how they identify. -- Kathleen McBroom * Booklist * An engaging, inclusive, and informative guide to this crucial topic. Stryker offers a conversational and informative teens guide to discussing issues of consent. * Kirkus Reviews *
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Winner of Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Indie Books 2024 (United States). Short-listed for 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Juvenile Nonfiction) 2024 (United States).
Foreword
Note to Adults
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Does Consent Feel So Weird?
Why Is Consent So Complicated?
Why Is Consent So Often Treated as a Gendered Thing?
How Do We Normalize Consent in Our Culture?
Is Consent Sexy?
When and How Do I Need to Ask for Consent?
Is It Nonconsensual If the Other Person Says Yes But Doesnt Mean It?
Whats the Best Way to Tell Someone Youve Changed Your Mind?
Whats the Difference between Coercion and Consent?
What Should You Do If Someone Doesnt Respect Your Boundaries?
What Should I Do When I've Crossed Someone's Boundaries?
When Is a Boundary Healthy?
Can Boundaries Be Detrimental?
Consent and Authority: How Do You Pick Your Battles?
What Does It Mean to Navigate Your Own Consent?
The Boundary Toolbox
How to Say No While Saving Face and Letting Others Save Face
I Consented to Something, But Now I Regret It. What Do I Do Now?
I Crossed Someones Boundary. How Do I Fix It?
A Checklist of Check-Ins
Physical and Emotional Signs
Current Capacity
Relationship Assessment
TL;DR: A Brief List of Consent Tips
Final Thoughts
Resources
Books and Essays
Websites
Crisis Resources
Kitty Stryker has been working on defining and creating a consent culture for over ten years through her writing, workshops, and website. Shes the editor of Ask: Building Consent Culture and author of Ask Yourself: The Consent Culture Workbook, and is especially interested in bringing conversations about consent out of the bedroom and into everyday life. Heather Corinna is the founder, director, designer and editor of Scarleteen, the first truly comprehensive sex, sexuality and relationships education site and resource for young people of its kind. She is also the author of S.E.X: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties (DaCapo Press); with Isabella Rotman, Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up (Oni Press) and the menopause memoir-slash-survival guide What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You (Hachette Go!).
