The seventh part of the Consent Event video series is THE NEED FOR SAFE SPACE. In this video, activist Lexii Foxx emphasizes the need for safe space and safe communities (something that Pillow Talk tries to provide!).
Lexii Foxx is an artist, organizer and outreach coordinator. She is a peer intern at the Alliance for Positive Change here in New York, by 34th Herald Square, working for the Women’s Department. She is a frequent collaborator with the artist Puppies Puppies / Jade Kuriki Olivo.
This is just one video in the Pornhub & Pillow Talk Consent Event series, so stay tuned for more installments here or watch them all now on Vimeo.
CONSENT EVENT: an intimate, roundtable discussion between a tapestry of influential artists, cultural figures, activists, and academics exploring consent and the multitude of ways it shows up in our lives.
Pornhub regards consent as one of its core values and upholds it as part of its operating principles. We are proud to partner with Pillow Talk to make this important and comprehensive discussion possible. See more about Pornhub’s commitment to trust & safety.
CONSENT EVENT was conceived, directed + hosted by scholar and editor Esra Soraya Padgett alongside author and the founder of Pillow Talk, Fiona Alison Duncan in June of 2022.
Pillow Talk is a femme and LGBTQ+ centered event and exhibition series, the spinoff of Duncan’s successful literary salon Hard to Read.
Esra Padgett is a linguistic anthropologist who has written on the subject of consent, censorship and obscenity, as well as sexuality and pornography more generally.
Credits:
Videography by Minnie Bennett, Cruz Mendez, Charlie Freiberg
Graphic design by Chloe Maratta
Photography by Nick Sethi (portraits) + Sam Penn (party)
Illustrations by Elizabeth Williams