Non-binary youth and binary sexual consent education: unintelligibility, disruption and possibility
| dc.contributor.author | Wright, JJ (Jessica) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Greenberg, Ellis | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-24T18:39:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-24T18:39:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper theorises the ways in which non-binary gender is rendered invisible through binary Yes/No sexual consent education. Judith Butler’s framework of gender intelligibility is drawn upon to consider the absenting of non-binary youth from consent education. We suggest that the undoing of the hegemonic colonial gender binary also be a project of consent education. Consent education is often taught through a highly gendered lens underscored by the ‘miscommunication hypothesis,’ which posits normative binary gender roles as the underlying cause of sexual violence and fails to account for how non-binary youth experience and navigate consent. Furthermore, we examine how binary Yes/No consent education negates non-binary gender by rejecting the grey area of consent. The dismissal of grey area experiences is problematic for non-binary youth as ambiguity around consent may be more prevalent amongst non-binary people due to increased experiences of trauma and the common experience of gender dysphoria. Despite this invisiblisation, non- binary people have formulated their own modes for navigating sexual pleasure and consent. We call for more research into how non-binary youth are invisibilised by binary consent education as well as how these youth are challenging normative consent and reimagining sexual cultures that centre interdependence, mutual pleasure, and care. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/E8G | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wright, J., & Greenberg, E. (2023) Non-binary youth and binary sexual consent education: unintelligibility, disruption and possibility. Sex Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2023.2217748 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2023.2217748 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3390 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | gender-based violence | |
| dc.subject | non-binary | |
| dc.subject | consent education | |
| dc.subject | sexuality education | |
| dc.subject | sexual violence prevention | |
| dc.subject | settler colonialism | |
| dc.subject | youth | |
| dc.title | Non-binary youth and binary sexual consent education: unintelligibility, disruption and possibility | en |
| dc.type | Article |