BOOK LAUNCH! Teaching Consent: Real Voices from the Consent Classroom

Jane Gilmore and Clementine Ford discuss the book and why teaching young people about consent is such a wonderful and challenging process.

Arrive at 6:30pm for 7:00pm start. Event ends at 8:00pm. Venue open until late.

Venue is completely accessible. Auslan interpreters are available through NDIS funding. Get in touch if you would like assistance to arrange this.

About the book:

In the great tradition of small books on large topics, Teaching Consent tells the stories of children, teens, teachers, and educators in consent and respectful relationship classes.

Jane Gilmore has been writing and speaking about domestic and sexual violence for over a decade. Now she is working with Deanne Carson, who spent that same decade teaching consent, body safety, and respectful relationships to children and young people from Early Childhood through to Year Twelve.

This book is the result of their collaboration. Blending memoir, expertise, hilarious anecdotes, and poignant stories from teachers and students, this window into classrooms and schoolyards is a must read for any parent.

“Consent is an everyday word that, if it’s embedded young, becomes an unthinking empathetic and considerate approach to any interaction with other people. When little children grow up with this, they need very little help taking it into sexual relationships when they’re older.”

Teaching Consent describes how we educate children, young and old, about sex, consent, and gender diversity. It explains why this education is so crucial, how the experts manage different needs and age groups, and the pressure on teachers, families, and students to get this done and get it done right.

Review Quotes:

“With characteristic wit, humility and insight, Jane Gilmore reveals the revolutionary potential of consent education. This is about sex, and so much more. At its heart, it’s about a movement to bring kids back into contact with their instincts. It’s about overturning the idea that’s driven much of our society’s ills: that successful people impose their will over others. True respect is a radical concept in our culture - and a skill that can lead us to end violence, have more satisfying sex, sustain our relationships, and even save the planet.” – Jess Hill

“Jane Gilmore has written a definitive and vital guide to consent that will change lives. If you do one thing for the young people in your life this year, make sure it’s buying this book.” – Clementine Ford

“A confronting and, most importantly, intensely useful book about the simple yet endlessly complicated issue of consent.” - Margaret Simons

“A book of soaring clarity and deep enjoyment. This book answers all the questions, is a cracking read and at times utterly hilarious. Not sure how Gilmore did it, but she has written a book about the sticky, confusing and at times depressing world of sex and conservative and made it a celebration, a liberation and makes me want to shag everyone immediately. This is the dawning of the age of clarity, respect and connection. All you need is this gorgeous book to navigate the daunting waters of sex and consent to find yourself on Pleasure Island.” – Catharine Deveny

About Jane Gilmore:

Jane Gilmore is a writer, journalist, speaker, and consent educator. She has been writing about the causes and effects of violence for over a decade and has now turned to prevention education.

Her first book, Fixed It: Violence and the representation of women was published by Penguin Random House in 2019. She wrote the work section of the book Work. Love. Body. in 2021. Her next book, Time and Punishment, is planned for 2023.

About Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs. Her latest book, How We Love: Notes on a Life was published in 2021.