Presentations & Workshops

Want to bring Jaclyn to your community or conference? Contact Kevin MacRae.

  • Yes Means Yes: How healing the sexual culture can help stop rape

Based on Friedman’s hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, this talk connects the dots between how the culture shames women for expressing their sexuality, how the media uses empty images of female sexuality to fuel sales, and how rape is allowed to function in society. Plus: practical action steps that everyone can take to start making change now.

  • Sane, Safe & Strong: Creating a safe and healthy sexual culture for your community

Using the Yes Means Yes framework, Friedman will lead an interactive discussion about the ways you and the rest of your campus or community can create a culture that supports healthy sexuality and makes sexual violence rare, clear and swiftly punished.

  • Enthusiastic Consent: A new model for better – and safer – sexuality

What if, instead of just the absence of “no,” an enthusiastic “yes” was required as a standard for sexual consent? What if, instead of treating sex like a commodity that women need to guard and men need to get, our culture viewed sex as a collaborative improv performance? We’ll smash the boxes and explore some radical paradigm shifts that just might heal our sickly sexual culture – and talk about how to get there from here.

  • Shameless Straight Talk About Rape, Drinking & Hookups

A reality-based talk about how rape, drinking, and casual sex are (and aren’t) connected. We’ll debunk harmful myths like “gray rape,” talk frankly about how and why rape happens, and explore practical ways for everyone to stay safe and sane while having some fun, and without shaming women or holding them responsible for the actions of rapists.

and many other topics related to sex, sexuality, rape, media, and feminism

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