Hey! We Speak About It. Do you? :)
Speak About It is a consent education and sexual assault prevention non-profit. We partner with high schools, colleges, and communities, and use theatre and dialogue to empower students to prevent sexual violence, build healthy relationships, and create positive change in their communities.
Our mission is to promote awareness of healthy sexual choices, advocate consent, and prevent sexual violence through inclusive performance-based education, discussion facilitation, and provision of resources.
We are proudly based in Portland, Maine, and have worked with nearly 500,000 students at over 100 schools, in 26 states, and three countries.
Founded by students for students!
Our shows and programs offer a true-to-life, inclusive view of sex, sexuality, and healthy relationships.
Our shows are comprised of stories from real young people with hundreds of different experiences and understandings of sex and sexuality.
We believe that inclusive consent and sex education is the most important element to harm reduction and violence prevention. Students deserve to know that their identities are valid and that there’s no one template for healthy sexuality and relationships. . .as long as you’re getting enthusiastic consent!
Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in their sex education. We share a diversity of experiences in our shows and programs, and our educators come from a diversity of experiences in their own lives. This inclusivity adds richness, depth, and relatability to our programs. We seek to share stories that inspire and empower, while representing students in every audience and classroom.
Inclusive + Pleasure-forward + Representative + Positive + Fun
We center pleasure in our work. Consent is mandatory, we shouldn’t need to rebrand it or make it more appealing. Consent is also sexy! Why? Because sex should be pleasurable for everyone. When we say “Consent is sexy!” we are saying that consent is an important starting point for healthy, pleasurable, fun sexual encounters, which everyone deserves to have.
We talk about sex and sexual assault prevention with the care and gravity it deserves, but we also utilize humor and positivity to engage students in conversations about consent, bystander intervention, and sexual communication. We are pleasure-focused, and teach about consent and healthy relationships in a way that is fun and feels good--just like sex should.
More and more students know that they need to get consent. They know sexual assault is a problem. They want to have healthy relationships and be good partners or friends. But they just don’t know how. Often, they don’t even know where to start, and the adults in their lives are often unable to have these conversations with their students or kids because they were never taught the skills to get consent and speak about sex.
Speak About It provides students with real, accessible, practical tools in all our shows and programs; tools that students can use and try in their day to day.
