Consent, A Reader

What does consent look like, today? This was the guiding question behind the Potter Museum of Art’s Interdisciplinary Forum, CONSENT. Over the last decade, we have seen a seismic shift in society’s understanding of consent across interpersonal, institutional, colonial, and environmental contexts – let alone that of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which this project was initially conceived. The conversation continues to be urgent and contested. Questions of agency, respect, recognition, sovereignty, visibility, and empathy remain at its core.