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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper outlines the inception, process, and key findings of five creative arts workshop held with 28 students in 2022 at Newcastle University. Participants engaged in crafting exercises and semi-structured discussions about sexual ethics grounded in lived experience. Sexual consent and novel models of sexual ethics were discussed, as well as an approach called a pleasure and care-centred ethic of embodied and relational sexual Otherness. Using an iterative form of thematic analysis, four core themes were identified: namely, culture and ethnocentrism, gendered sexual scripts/sexual-gendered scripts, heteronormativity, and pleasure. Analysis of the art objects also yielded findings related to anger, gendered norms, communication, and obligation. This project examined how university students felt about consent as the dominant model of sexual ethics and explored other possibilities using discourse and crafting to engage with lived experience. This article aims to capture these findings while also placing the workshops and its findings in methodological and socio-cultural context.
Author(s): Sikka T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Year: 2024
Pages: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 30/08/2024
Acceptance date: 13/08/2024
Date deposited: 10/09/2024
ISSN (print): 0803-8740
ISSN (electronic): 1502-394X
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2394553
DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2024.2394553
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