2026-01-15 –, Virtual Room 1
How does neurodivergence affect consent, including consent mistakes, incidents, and violations? How does it affect boundaries, grappling with hurt and harm (and discerning between the two)? What about accountability at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels?
In this participatory workshop, we will dive into these questions with case studies and real-life examples. We’ll look through a trauma- and disability justice-informed lens, and talk about common patterns, subjective interpretations, ascriptions, and communication-based on neurotypes, socialization, and lived experience. There will be opportunities for community members to share their experiences.
Adam is a community organizer, mediator, kink educator, and ongoing learner, and has been active in kink since 2009. Their passions lie at the intersections of kink (hypnosis and beyond), disability justice, neurodivergence accessibility, trauma-informed care, consent, embodied somatics, and responses to and prevention of harm – including transformative justice and community accountability. They desire to help people play in safer, skillful ways that are trauma-, power-, and risk-informed. Adam is an educator with several groups including The Consent Academy, advocating for consent from the individual level to the systemic. They also do consent and accountability work in many contexts and community spaces.