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A review by lakecake
Consent on Campus: A Manifesto by Donna Freitas
4.0
I won a free copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaways.
This is going to require a re-read to really process all of the information in here, but as a person with a 15+ year career in higher education, the main points Freitas lays out in this book resonate. There is a fundamental lack surrounding how we speak to our young people about sex--it starts before they ever step foot on a campus, of course, but it doesn't get any better once they get here and therein lies the problem. The national conversation about sex, consent, hook-ups, parties and drinking needs to change, and the attitudes on campus surrounding student life versus academics need to change as well. There's no way for it but to start trying to make that change, even if you're the only voice on campus doing it. The hope, of course, is that you can convince others to join you, or at the very least support you. I think this book could act as an excellent jumping off point for gaining the type of campus-wide support needed to really implement a program of sex-and-consent education that really allows students to learn about all of the entrenched expectations and baggage they maybe don't even know they're carrying around, and to give them the tools to leave those expectations behind as they see fit.
This is going to require a re-read to really process all of the information in here, but as a person with a 15+ year career in higher education, the main points Freitas lays out in this book resonate. There is a fundamental lack surrounding how we speak to our young people about sex--it starts before they ever step foot on a campus, of course, but it doesn't get any better once they get here and therein lies the problem. The national conversation about sex, consent, hook-ups, parties and drinking needs to change, and the attitudes on campus surrounding student life versus academics need to change as well. There's no way for it but to start trying to make that change, even if you're the only voice on campus doing it. The hope, of course, is that you can convince others to join you, or at the very least support you. I think this book could act as an excellent jumping off point for gaining the type of campus-wide support needed to really implement a program of sex-and-consent education that really allows students to learn about all of the entrenched expectations and baggage they maybe don't even know they're carrying around, and to give them the tools to leave those expectations behind as they see fit.