Exchanging nudes is a huge part of sexual intimacy online, a facilitator of body positivity and coming to terms with yourself.

We should not view consent as a just rigid precaution but also a tool to improve communication. Instead of simply a yes or no question, it’s a dialogue that we should use to navigate all interactions with a person.

Coach Carr’s assertion that his students will either “get pregnant or die” if they have sex in the movie Mean Girls revealed the more significant issue of fearmongering often present in media representations of sex during the 90s and early 2000s.

Developing meaningful strategies to disrupt colonial mentality and infrastructures, particularly around patriarchal violence in our communities, requires an ongoing commitment to unlearning and relearning.