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Bad Subject and Sexual Education Centre at the University of Toronto (S.E.C)
Consent IRL Series: Challenging Ableist Perspectives on Consent - Toronto
Education
Toronto, Ontario
November 24, 2018
http://www.neads.ca/en/about/events/index.php?id=1940
This series explores the real life experiences we face in sex, sexuality and consent. We are bringing in community members to explore how our identities and histories, our trauma, and the screwed up sexual culture we live in impacts consent and sex. We'll build skills for being better allies in our work and lives.

Event is free.
ASL interpretation provided.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
Gender neutral washrooms available on the floor.

Join us at 1p.m. for food and refreshments.

1:15-3p.m. PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION: Autism 90 90 90: Reaching for the goal

The presentation will address the connections between Autism Spectrum Disorder, negotiating consent and safer sex, accessing services, and community connectivity. There will be time for a Q and A and the presentation will include preliminary findings on the Aids Committee of Toronto’s “ASD & HIV Prevention Needs Assessment” survey.

FACILITATOR: Brandon
Brandon is the ASD & HIV Prevention Needs Assessment Coordinator at ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto). Passionate about Autistic health and the syndemics that create those health outcomes, including Institutionalization. Brandon seeks long term goal oriented change on issues both parents and Autistic people can share a common vision.

3:15-4:30 p.m. WORKSHOP: Negotiation & Consent when impairments and disabilities are not always obvious or “visible”

This workshop will explore what happens when someone's real life needs and experiences don't fit neatly into the conventional models of consent, or into the legal framework that exists.

FACILITATOR: Cara
Cara is a multilingual facilitator and interdisciplinary doctoral student in the Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies department at York University, from which she also holds a MA in Critical Disability Studies. Much of her time is spent learning, writing, and talking about socio-cultural and legal issues affecting people with disabilities in both public and more intimate/sexy settings – particularly, those involving the negotiation of circumstances in which impairments and disabilities are not always obvious (or “visible”) to all involved. Her recent work has been published in such journals as Critical Disability Discourses and the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

4:30-5p.m. Q & A, chatting, mingling, and eating more snacks.

This event in taking place in Tkaronto which is within Dish With One Spoon treaty territory. A commitment to consent culture necessarily requires a commitment to decolonization.
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252 Bloor St W room 5240, Toronto, Saturday, November 24th, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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