.svg)
Want to enter to WIN!?!
Check our Google Form or Jamboard to participate. Use the Jamboard as well as the Google Form if you are interested in participating publicly, where others can see your answers. You may also use just the Google Form. Read the contest rules section to learn more about how to participate to enter to win.
Want a chance to win a $50 gift card of your choice? Here’s how to enter:
*Derogatory, hurtful, or racist entries will not be included in the draw. Jamboard is regularly monitored to remove these posts.*
Check out our posters on the 5 Senses of Consent here. If you have accessibility needs, please scroll down and find the description of our posters.
If you want to learn more, read below to get more information on the 5 Senses of Consent and Daily Consent.
“The 5 senses of consent” was designed in a collaboration between Student Wellbeing (Health Promotion Programs) and The Center for Safer Sex and Sexual Violence Support to increase awareness of ways to practice consent daily. Consent is a set of on-going practices that uphold one’s ability to have choice, safety, and/or pleasure, and respecting people's wants and needs. One of the main purposes of this campaign is to expand upon how consent may be commonly thought of, not only as something we can and should do in our intimate spaces or relationships, but also in public and with strangers. This can even include those who you may or may not have direct contact with but who you are sharing space with in some way.
As demonstrated on the posters, consent exists on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum is active consent. This type of consent encompasses directly asking permission, such as asking before kissing someone. However, there are also consent practices that can be adopted even if we cannot first directly ask someone about their comfort preferences. This type of consent can , when we haven’t explicitly expressed our wants and needs, but are still feeling safe and reasonably comfortable, can be thought of as “passive consent.” This campaign focuses on both passive and active areas of consent, and we encourage each reader to think through how practicing consent still applies in shared spaces, even when we may not be able to offer the option to say yes or no to something directly, and how we may develop consent practices even with strangers who we may never meet or speak to.
Practicing consent in every aspect of our lives can be thought of as daily consent. Daily consent consists of practicing awareness of how we relate to others and the consideration of our own and others’ bodily and sensory needs of others when we occupy public or shared spaces. We have used the concept of the five senses to help demonstrate how practicing consent is something we can do every day, in every single space we enter into,and that consent is so much more than directly asking about acts relating to sexual consent.
Daily consent can be active or passive, and it can be reflected in the everyday choice to give consideration to others’ bodily and sensory needs, and how they are sometimes very different from our own. We hope that the 5 senses on consent can be a useful framework for brainstorming how we think about safety and wellbeing for each other in shared spaces, and in doing so, increasing both passive and active consensual interactions on campus.
Are you a survivor who is feeling triggered or needs support? Check out these resources:
To find more resources check out our website.
Want to learn more about daily consent? Check out these resources:
Podcasts:
Videos:
Reading:
Deeper Dive:
Podcast
Reading
If you have accessibility needs, check out the link below. If these still do not meet your needs, please contact sassl@yourtmsu.ca
5 Senses of Consent Accessible Poster