Theme
Sexual Attitudes & Behaviours
Tackling the tricky topics to remove barriers to wellbeing
Unwanted sexual behaviours of all kinds can have a profound impact on a survivor’s capacity to thrive. Opening dialogue around what is healthy or harmful is essential to challenging damaging norms and highlighting the tools needed to develop equal and respectful relationships.
#MeToo
The #MeToo movement highlighted the strengthening of the collective voice of women looking to challenge the traditional power dynamics, and raise awareness and empathy for victims of sexual harassment and sexual violence. The subsequent backlash indicates how much work continues to be needed to encourage intimate relationships that are based in trust, equality and consent in respect of each others’ boundaries. A core aspect of our work on this theme is thus aimed at prevention.
Support
Enabling (better) support for survivors is imperative and, to this end, we work to demonstrate the impact of harmful sexual attitudes on recipients of unwanted behaviours in order to encourage more empathetic responses and challenge the victim-blaming and anti-snitch cultures that continue to prevail.
Sub themes
Subverting honour and shame
We have developed work that explores the way the concept of honour is used across cultures to shame women for being sexually active.
Calling out victim-blaming
We have developed work that challenges the societal tendency to blame victims of unwanted sexual behaviour and hold women and girls responsible for what happens disproportionately to them.
Pro-social modelling
We have developed work that depicts positive, healthy and inclusive relationships and relationship behaviours to change the narrative around what young people see as normal.
Ways you can
work with us
Resources and workshops
Order our resources on this theme or book us to deliver a workshop directly with your students or participants. We have content that is aimed at children and young people and content that is aimed at adults.
Collaboration
Partner with us on live projects as we develop and test new content. We work with a range of schools, youth groups and community organisations in our projects, both in early development and roll out stages. We love working in collaboration!
Training delivery
Book us to deliver training on this theme in relation to your young people or adult colleagues. The beauty of art and creative methods is that they can be used flexibly to engage a given audience. We are experienced in designing for different audiences and can offer bespoke or off-the-shelf variants.
Commissioning
Commission us to develop awareness-raising content on this theme for your organisation or community. We can draw from our existing portfolio or co-create something new with you to explore a different aspect of the issue.
Book one of our creative team to deliver a workshop addressing this theme with your young people.
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Related Projects
Honour Shame
Poetry, visual arts and a work-in-progress dance piece, tackling taboos surrounding shame and honour in relation to women’s bodies and sexuality, weaving together common threads across different cultures.
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Let’s Talk about Sex
A collection of positive relationship stories and images designed to open a dialogue and change the narrative around sexual attitudes and behaviours.
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Sexting Risks
An educator toolkit built around a short film co-produced with young people to challenge the victim-blaming that surrounds intimate image sharing.
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Weaving Stories
An impactful animation to change the culture that enables peer sexual abuse and highlight the impact of unwanted sexual behaviours on young survivors.
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What’s All the Fuss About?
Purchase one or more images from What’s All the Fuss About? in poster or postcard form to send to a friend or display in your school, youth group or community centre.
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What Would You Do?
Purchase a digital or hard copy of our Sexting-themed resource What Would You Do? This comes with a short film co-created with young people and can be used to develop understanding around the laws, risks and consequences associated with sending intimate images.
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