#ConsentAndPower by Spring Up

Spring Up with us for the very first episode of #ConsentAnd, a podcast series cultivating space to vision what a culture of consent and liberty looks and feels like for all of us as we fight for collective freedom and liberation.

Over the course of our #CultivateConsent campaign, we’ll explore consent as it relates to our bodies, minds, souls, and spirits. On each episode, we’ll bring together social justice leaders from movement spaces across the country to talk about how consent relates to other social, racial, and economic justice issues.

On this episode, we speak with Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth, the founders of Spring Up who started the organization a little over 6 years ago after years of organizing on their college campus. We start our conversation with an analysis of how power dynamics in society and on the interpersonal impact our ability to communicate and negotiate consent. We’ll also share some of the history and founding story of Spring Up and talk more about the tools and resources available in our recently released Cultivate Consent zine.

We welcome you to join us in the journey and bring these tools and resource in your life by ordering your zine copes today!

- For the next week until Sunday, May 26th, we'll be having a zine promo period over on our website at timetospringup.org/cultivate-consent. Order 5 zines for $55 and to skill up, learn, and grow with your friends and community and we'll send you 2 extra copies with handwritten letters to guide you in your practice!

- If you want a more intimate and sustained relationship with our team, join our Patreon at patreon.com/cultivateconsent for as little as $5/month! Be one of our first 10 Patreons and we'll send you a special care package with items to deepen your healing practice foster self and community care!

We look forward to planting more seeds of consent with you to cultivate healthy, liberating relationships and love in our communities! Use #cultivateconsent to contact us on social media (especially Instagram) and/or email us at phillip@timetospringup.org if you have any questions!