In this 2018 TEDx talk, Professor Jason Laker shares insights from research that he and Dr. Erica Boas have been conducting since 2012 examining college students' sexual consent communication and negotiation.
Erica and Jason deliver the opening keynote presentation, "His Issues, Her Issues, Zir Issues, Our Issues: Rethinking Assumptions About Sexual Coercion and Assault" at the 2015 Conference on College Men hosted by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Erica and Jason present their research and implications for practice at a recent Sexual Assault prevention conference.

Recent publications and presentations:

We are under contract with a major academic publisher to develop a scholar-practitioner text with chapters written by Drs. Laker & Boas alongside guest chapters and short "stories from the field" contributions reporting on this research and its implications.  The text is anticipated to be available in mid-late 2023.

Journal Article:
​Laker, J. & Boas, E. (2015).  Compliance is simple, Consent Stories are complex: Building capacity for sexual agency as a prevention strategy.  Journal of Campus Title IX Compliance and Best Practices. 1, 21-28.

Webinars:
  • New directions for sexual consent education, agency and GBV prevention: Findings and implications of new research, Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS), 2020
  • Building a culture of sexual consent, Innovative Educators, 2016 and 2018
  • Beyond Title IX: Developing a sexual consent culture among college students, AudioSolutionz, 2015
  • Bringing Race, Class and Sexuality into Hookup Culture and Sexual Assault Debate: Reforming Approaches to Prevention Policies and Programs, Diverse Issues in Higher Education Webinar Series, 2014
  • The Problems with Consent: Engaging Gaps between Laws, Policies, and Students’ Lived Experiences, StudentAffairs.com, 2014

Campus and Conference Presentations:​
  • Campaign Keynote Speaker, 16-Days of Activism: Embracing Men’s Roles in Ending Gender-Based Violence, Mohawk and Humber Colleges, Ontario, Canada, 2021
  • Student Code Meets Bedroom: Reconciling Rules and Realities of Sexual Consent Communication, NASPA 2019
  • Informed/ing (Sexual) Consent: Recent Research and Implications for Prevention, Association of Title IX Administrators, 2018
  • Understanding sexual consent communication from Womxn’s perspectives (w/Research Assistants Angeles De Santos-Quezada & Alisala Nunes), Summer Institute on Sexuality, Center for Research & Education on Gender & Sexuality, San Francisco State University, 2018.
  • Theorizing insurgent sexual knowledges and practices: Lessons learned from Kinky, Queer and Trans* Students, AERA 2017
  • Queer, Trans, and Kink Perspectives on Sexual Consent: Lessons from Students’ Lived Experiences, NASPA 2017
  • Beyond Yes/No: Queer, Trans and Kink Perspectives on Sexual Consent, ACPA 2017
  • Beyond Yes, No, and “It just happened”: lessons learned about consent in college, College Program Series, Eckerd College, Florida, 2017
  • Featured Session, “Insurgent” Knowledge: What Queer, Trans* and Kinky People Know About Sexual Consent, ATIXA/SCOPE Joint Annual Conference, 2016
  • Consent Stories: Early Learning and Lived Experiences of Sexual Agency, ACPA 2016
  • Featured Speakers, “Culture of Consent,” Sexual Assault Awareness Month, University of San Francisco, 2015
  • Sexual Coercion and Assault Goes to College Too: Disarticulating Culture, Language, Heritage and the Cheating of Justice, Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 2015
  • Sexual Consent Research and Praxis: Hopeful Possibilities for Pernicious Problems, Meeting of the American College Personnel Association, 2015
  • Invited Lecture, Sexual Culture, Coercion & Consent: Disarticulating the Setup of Socialization, Center for Research & Education on Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco State University, 2014.
  • Panelist, Lost (Agency) in Translation: Dilemmas of Negotiating Gender and Sexual Consent, (En)Gendering Technologies: Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
  • Real Life vs. Yes or No: Unraveling Policies, Politics and Problems of Sexual Consent, Bay Area Conduct Officers Network (BACON) conference, 2014.
  • The RealPolitik of Sexual Assault: Sociosexual Cartographies of Gender, Consent and Collegiate Hookup Culture, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California-Berkeley, 2013.
  • Hookups and Hang Ups in the Virtual Age: Gender Roles and the (New) Sexual Politics among College Students, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California-Berkeley, 2012.
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