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WeLoveConsent

Mitchell Gomez2023-02-24T15:23:35-08:00

WeLoveConsent

Healing is Power Campaign
  • About WeLoveConsent
  • Consent Culture
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Content Warning: Sensitive topics are discussed in WeLoveConsent materials, including this page. Reader discretion advised.

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About WeLoveConsent

The mission of WeLoveConsent is to help dismantle rape culture and build a consent culture within the electronic music and nightlife communities, through consent education and bystander intervention. 

Safer Spaces

Create safer spaces to engage in survivor-centered conversations about sex, practicing consent, bystander intervention, survivor support, substance use, and rape culture, both online and via tabling at events.

Consent Culture

Mobilize our community to embody the values of WeLoveConsent and actively work towards creating consent culture.

Materials & Resources

Disseminate educational materials regarding consent, rape culture, bystander intervention, survivor support, and consent culture via online communication channels and on the ground at events.


WeLoveConsent Team

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Kristin Karas

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Sloane Ferenchak

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Stacey Forrester

DanceSafe's purple WeLoveConsent logo.

Consent Culture: An Invitation

Rape culture is a society (or environment) whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing – or trivializing – sexual assault and abuse. 

We must acknowledge that rape culture and systems of power permeate all social boundaries, and that our community is not immune to either. Regardless of where each of us is at in our understanding and practice of consent, there’s always room for improvement.

To build a consent culture in our community, each individual must take accountability for learning about rape culture, systems of power, and forms of power-based violence, and apply this knowledge to help create safer spaces for themselves and others.

While it’s true that the only person directly responsible for committing power-based violence is the perpetrator, we all have the responsibility to look out for one another and promote a more inclusive, safer environment.

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We encourage everyone in our community to recognize WeLoveConsent as an invitation to do better. We need each other. We can all do better, together.


Articles, Printouts, & Resources

WeLoveConsent is an ongoing community effort. Check back often for the addition of more tools and resources!

Educational Campaigns

  •  Healing is Power: DanceSafe, Good Night Out Vancouver, & Mimi Page’s Campaign to build a consent culture in music and nightlife communities
    • Eight mini-courses on topics like sex & drugs, bystander intervention, supporting survivors, and more

WLC Toolbox Series

The WeLoveConsent Toolbox Series is a collection of articles covering basic and advanced elements of consent and power dynamics, including specific tips for complicated situations.

  • Establishing Mutual Consent Rather Than ‘Getting’ Consent
  • Hooking Up with Integrity
  • Introduction to Navigating Power Dynamics
  • Navigating Mutual Consent Agreements
  • Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors
  • Being Accused of Consent Violation: How to Respond and Repair

Big Topics in Consent

These articles cover consent in the context of major systemic and community settings.

  • Let’s Talk About Datsik and Rape Culture in Our Community
  • “She Kissed a Boy, and He Didn’t Like It” – Women Need Permission Too
  • Power Dynamics, Ownership, Accountability, And Community Response To Sexual Violence
  • WeLoveConsent: Do Year Resolutions
  • Consent, COVID, & Dating

Printable Materials

These visual materials can be printed or forwarded in digital formats.

  • Ask First Card
  • Sexual Harassment Card

Pardon our dust: Additional resources will be uploaded gradually as we finish up our new website.

Other Resources

These links direct to external websites or organizations.

  • 11th Principle: Consent!
  • Good Night Out International
  • Goodnight Out Vancouver
  • Safe Bars
  • RAINN Hotline
  • List: Organizations, Resources, & Reading for Supporting Survivors

Related Articles

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Responding To & Repairing Consent Violations (WLC Toolbox)

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November 12, 2021

Injection Attacks: Are They Real?

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Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors (WLC Toolbox)

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Consent, COVID, & Dating

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A pink and purple graphic with the title "navigating mutual consent agreements" and some icons representing the WLC program. February 11, 2021

Navigating Mutual Consent Agreements (WLC Toolbox)

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WeLoveConsent: Do Year Resolutions

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November 24, 2020

Welcome to the Team: Sloane Ferenchak

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Community Responses to Sexual Violence

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Facial Recognition and Consent Culture

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Navigating Power Dynamics (WLC Toolbox)

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Hooking Up with Integrity (WLC Toolbox)

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Establishing Mutual Consent (WLC Toolbox)

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Don’t Stand By, Stand Up!

This is a movement, not a moment! Consent violations and abuses of power in music communities have been swept under the rug for far too long. It is possible to be both proactive (acting before someone is harmed), and responsive (addressing the issue as it occurs), to consent-related harm, rather than being reactive (acting after someone is harmed)!

Conversations matter: talk to your friends and community members about consent and rape culture. (WeLoveConsent resources may be helpful to share during these conversations.)

Does WeLoveConsent’s mission speak to you?

  • Consider volunteering with DanceSafe to learn more about consent and the WeLoveConsent program.
  • Interested in getting involved in the WeLoveConsent program directly? Contact consent@dancesafe.org for more information. 

Supporting WeLoveConsent

  • You can donate directly to DanceSafe here. Donations help fund the development and implementation of WeLoveConsent initiatives and services.
  • Do you love WeLoveConsent and have a creative idea to help raise funds for the program? Email consent@dancesafe.org to start the discussion!

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