Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence

A Two Part Series with Adam

A live and recorded multi-day workshop from Wicked Grounds

11/1 and 11/7 11am - 1pm Pacific

How does neurodivergence affect consent – including mistakes, incidents, and violations? How does it affect boundaries, grappling with hurt and harm (and discerning between the two), and accountability at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels?

In this participatory two part workshop, we will dive into these questions with case studies and real-life examples. We’ll look through a trauma- and disability justice-informed lens, and talk about common patterns, subjective interpretations, ascriptions, and communication-based on neurotypes, socialization, and lived experience. We will make space for embodied activities and create plenty of room for community members to share their experiences.

PRESENTER:

Adam is a community organizer, mediator, conflict transformation facilitator, kink and consent educator, and ongoing learner. Their passions lie at the intersections of disability justice, neurodivergence accessibility, trauma-informed care, consent, embodied somatics, harm reduction, and systems transformation. They desire to help people relate in safer, skillful ways that are trauma-, power-, and risk-informed. Adam has been an educator with several groups including The Consent Academy, advocating for consent from the individual level to the systemic. They do consent and accountability work in many contexts and community spaces, from organizing spaces to the sex+ world. Adam sees this work as intersectional, directly connected to the better, more liberatory world they want to live in.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you will need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class!

This class will be recorded for distribution and available 7 days after through Dropbox. However, we recommend attending live to get the most out of your experience.

Zoom provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.