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Consent Month 2025
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12-1pm, Moffett Auditorium (LL Mudd), PRSM: PRSM Recruiting panel - Interested in applying to PRSM? Come to a drop-in event where some of our current trainers will discuss their experience in PRSM and answer any questions you might have about applying to be a trainer for the fall semester. Pizza provided! 5-6:30pm, King 101, PRSM,SIC: BDSM & Kinks - Curious about exploring a kink but don't know where to start? Come to an introduction into safe kink and BDSM practices led by PRSM and the SIC! We will talk about consent, how to safely use toys or implements, and affordable options, no experience necessary.4:30-6pm, King 235, PRSM: Healthy Relationships series: Healthy Relationships 101 Come to this workshop for an introductory discussion on healthy relationships! We will talk through the essentials with a focus on communication and how to make sure your relationship needs and wants are met. Everyone has something to learn about how to have healthy relationships, so come learn with us!
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3-4:30pm, see @oberlinsaac Instagram for details, SAAC: One Love Workshop - Join members of the Student Athletics Advisory Commitee in a workshop created by One Love, an organisation working to help people recognzie unhealthly relationship behavors before they escalate to abuse. After running these workshops for athletes for many years, we are excited to share these workshops with more students.7:30pm-9:30pm, Hallock Auditorium, Exploring Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivorship and Resilience Through Short Film Join Oberlin alum Lexie Bean for a film screening of two of short films made alongside other grads of '13. This includes "A Scavenger Hunt For People Loneliest In Their Own Homes" and "The Ship We Built", which was later developed into an award-winning novel with Penguin Random House. Both projects take imaginative, even playful approaches to Lexie's lived experiences. The screening and brief excerpt reading will be paired with a brief chat with Lexie. All are welcome.12:15-1:30pm, MRC Lounge MOVED: Wilder 320, Beyond the Heroic Survivor: Dating Edition, with guest and alum Lexie Bean - Romantic partners are on the front-lines for survivor support, yet most resources tend to focus on survivors and not resources for the people who love them. There can be a great fear in getting it wrong, not knowing everything, and a greater risk of a survivor educating their partner as a form of self-defense. This is a moment of self-compassion and honoring the labor that comes with love as we go into some nuances of short term care, long term care, and physical intimacy. This event is facilitated by an Oberlin alum who will also bring their experience as a trans person and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Attendance is encouraged for all genders and relationship statuses. Food will also be served.
7:30-8:30pm, MRC Lounge (Wilder 220), SOSHA: Healing Isn't Linear - An educational workshop aimed at addressing the ways in which healing from sexual trauma is a complex, non-linear process.RESCHDULED: 7-8pm, King 123, PRSM/SIC: Desirability Politics - Come engage in open dialogue with members of PRSM and SIC to discuss the politics of desirability and how our identities influence how we participate in dating/hookup culture at Oberlin. We will discussed how our sexual preferences are influenced by racism, fatphobia, classism, and gender. 1-3pm, Wilder Main, SOSHA and SWAG, Resources Fair - Come to Wilder Main to learn more about resource available on and off Oberlin campus. Tabling includes SOSHA, SWAG, SIC, PRSM, and the Lorian Family Planning Center.
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4:30-6pm, King 235, PRSM: Healthy Relationships series: Do I Stay or Do I Go? - This is the second workshop in the Healthy Relationships series. We will discuss the skills you need to make the decision to stay or leave a relationship in a healthy fashion. This workshop is open to anyone and everyone. Though this workshop is geared towards romantic partnership, it is also applicable to platonic relationships!
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2-3pm, MRC Lounge, SOSHA: Sex Communication: Before, Durings & Afters --Join SOSHA for a workshop on how to have conversations with partners about boundaries, comfortability, and trying new things.4:30-6pm, King 235, PRSM: Healthy Relationships series: How Do I Deal With a Break-Up? - This is the final workshop of the Healthy Relationships series. Breakups are hard! Through this workshop you can gain the skills to successfully deal with one.7-8:30pm, Peters 104, PRSM/SIC : Porn Literacy - Hate porn? Love porn? Want to talk about porn? Come chat about it all at porn literacy! If you've ever wondered how porn shapes our ideas of sex, relationships, and consent, join us for a fun, educational, judgment free zone workshop. We'll chat about intimacy, performance and the private vs public sphere of sex. Open to all-no matter your experiences with porn! *snacks provided* 5-6:30pm, King 306, PRSM: Staging Consent: Consent Practices in Theater and Film - Join a panel of experienced students and faculty in a discussion of how safe sex and relationship practices translate into theater and film.7-8pm, Wilder 215, SOSHA:Listening Session: Navigating Sexual Assault Awareness Month as a Suvivor - In this peer-support session led by Survivors of Sexual Harm and Allies (SOSHA), survivors of sexual harm will have the opportunity to discuss feelings around sexual assault awareness month. Additionally, we will discuss skills for coping with this potentially stressful and triggering time.
2-3:30pm, Warner Main, PRSM: Dance and Consent -- Are you a dancer, choreographer, or a dance-lover? Are you curious about how to redefine touch and create spaces of consent in dance? Join us in Warner for an open dialogue + movement workshop about consent practices in dance spaces!!
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5-7pm, Knowlton, PRSM: Team Culture and Consent - This workshop focuses on how to communicate healthy boundaries between teammates and fostering postive team culture and athlete community at Oberlin.
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5-6pm, King 227, SIC: Trans Pleasure and Sexual Dynamics - Cis-het sexual norms not doing it for you? Join us for a discussion on the many shapes pleasure can take outside of a gender binary, and how to communicate your wants and needs to others!
5:30-7pm, Wilder 320, PRSM/SIC: Navigating Masculinity - Navigating Masculinity is a workshop run by members of PRSM and the SIC. Anyone who identifies as male or masculine is welcome to join and chat. We will be discussing healthy male relationships, how we communicate and perform masculinity for ourselves and others, supporting other men, and navigating the complex framework of masculinity internally and externally. We are hoping to make this a recurring support group that will return in the fall, look out for updates on that! Pizza and soda will be provided! 5-6pm - King 339, PRSM: Creating Space: Practices for Peer Leaders -Are you a peer leader on campus? Do you want to be? Come learn how to use your leadership for good, discuss previous difficulties or learn new strategies to make everybody comfortable and included!10pm-1am, The 'Sco, PRSM: Sex Splitchers - Join the PRSM Staff for a night of fun and fly music about sex in the ‘Sco. Trust the playlist goes crazy!!5-7pm, Peters 101, SIC: How to Please a Penis (5-5:30pm), a Vulva (5:30-6:30), and Eveything (6:30-7pm) + Aftercare (7-7:30pm) - How do you pleasure a vulva, penis, or anus? These skills may not come naturally to everyone, but the Sexual Information Center is excited to present the “How to Please” series, where together we will explore the anatomy of these body parts in conversation with trans bodies and the effects of HRT and body dysphoria, with an overall focus on pleasure, comfortability, and safety. Stop by for some pizza, pleasure, and fun times!!8-10pm, Starlite Lounge (Langston 296), Healers Collective: Empowered Boundaries: A Healing Experience - Listen to an immersive sound bath to turn inward to relax and reflect. More information on instagram @thehealerscollectiveoberlin.12-2:30pm, King 241, PRSM/OSCA: Coops and Consent, If you're a member of OSCA and are interested in talking about power dynamics and navigating relationships and friendships within OSCA please join! We will have pizza and soda and great conversation!
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7-8pm, MRC Lounge (Wilder 220), SOSHA: Acknowledging Male and Masculine Survivors - We plan to offer an educational workshop centered around the experiences of male and masculine survivors. It is our hope that this workshop will help reduce stigma by offering individuals a better understanding of what sexual harm looks like.5-9pm, Wilder Bowl, SIC: Sex Fest - Join us in Wilder Bowl on Saturday April 26th for a celebration of sex and consent! You'll find community resources, educational workshops, food, and live music, plus a raffle to win free SIC goodies!
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8-10 pm, Peters Hall, SOSHA: Take Back the Night - Take Back the Night is a global movement and annual event that advocates for safer communities and an end to sexual violence. It typically includes marches, rallies, and survivor speak-outs, providing a space for individuals to share their experiences and demand action against gender-based violence. The event empowers survivors and allies to reclaim public spaces without fear.4:30-6:30pm, King 227, The Nord Center with PRSM/SOSHA, Trauma Informed Workshop: Join aavi Ybarra (He/They) and Alex Rumph (She/Her) from the Nord Center in learning strategies to best work with and/or support survivors of sexual assault with a trauma informed approach. If you are in leadership on campus, have a personal connection, or are just curious, this workshop is for you! Taught by extremely educated individuals, you will learn relevant life skills. 12-3pm, Wilder Bowl, SOSHA: Denim Day - Denim Day is an annual event held in April to raise awareness about sexual violence and victim-blaming. It began in response to a controversial Italian court ruling that overturned a rape conviction, arguing that the victim’s tight jeans implied consent. Participants wear denim to stand in solidarity with survivors and challenge harmful misconceptions about sexual assault. 7-8pm, Wilder 215, SOHSA, Listen Session: Take Back the Night & Denim Day Debrief: This is a peer-support session led by Survivors of Sexual Harm and Allies (SOSHA) that is for survivors, allies, and anyone who attended Take Back the Night or Denim Day events. This session will focus on debriefing and discussing emotions that may have arisen during these events.
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7:30-9pm, Warner Dance Studio (top floor on the right), PRSM/MRC, What's Next? Dialogic Debrief and Action Planning Post-Consent Month - Are you still thinking about what you learned in Consent Month workshops? Come join Intergroup Dialogue facilitator AJ Johnson to reflect on your new knowledge and translate what you learned into concrete action steps for the future! Snacks and Consent Month merch available!
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