That Awful Moment When You Learn That This Wasn’t Scripted. That Will Smith’s Character Was Actually

“I lived without out a computer and cell phone when I was your age.”

yeah well YOUR parents lived without a microwave and the polio vaccine but I don’t see you giving that up

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

me: *orders takeout* me: *drives 5 hours to the nearest large body of water* me: *lays open food gently into water* me: aesthetic

Literally had this queued up to say goodbye but NBC just picked up B99 for season six and CELEBRATION ART IS WAY BETTER 😀💛

People now are like, “Your right to free speech doesn’t mean you can express an offensive opinion” Like what the fuck does right to free speech mean, then?

“Conrad”