ABSTRACT
Conceived at Bowdoin College in 2010, Speak About It (SAI) is a nonprofit sexual consent education and violence prevention organization that uses theatre to teach communication, self-advocacy, and intervention skills to high school and college students across the USA. SAI’s flagship show combines monologues and scenes that offer examples for operationalizing sexual consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships in students’ lives. SAI approaches the work with humor, humanity, and humility to model behaviors and provide language, or social scripts, students can use in their real lives by using near-peer Educators. Executive Director, Olivia Harris describes how the organization focuses on positivity, empathy, and diversity (including LGBTQ representation), to support lasting change in participants’ attitudes and behaviors.
