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A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent

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By Mae Czerwiec   It’s practically public knowledge by now that 1 in 6 American adult women has been raped or sexually assaulted in her lifetime (RAINN). Until recently, most consent training and sexual assault legal phrasing has relied on a “no means no” standard; that is, if someone says “no” to a sexual activity, it should immediately be stopped. However, more and more, sex and consent educators have been striving to replace “no means no” with “yes means yes” — the idea that only an explicit “yes” indicates consent to any sexual activity. This model is known as affirmative consent,… Read More

Leah Eisenberg and Visualizing Biobanking

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This week on the graphic medicine podcast, Leah Eisenberg talks about her work as a lawyer and bioethicist using comics to help make biobanking more comprehensible, and consent to bio banking more meaningful. In the “What Are You Reading?!” segment, Leah updates us on her comics & medicine work and recommends a few books she’s enjoyed recently.   Leah recommends the March series about John Lewis, Neurocomic, and the work of Tyler Page, and S/Z, about communicating ideas with storytelling.   Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department… Read More