Hope

My name is Michele Beaulieux, and on this blog site I share my writings, drawings, and photos about envisioning a culture of consent, creating accountable communities, and preventing sexual violence.

I’m creating a reservoir of hope, and I invite you to peruse it. I provide tools for creating safer brave space for voluntary get-togethers, especially those involving touch and those in which people risk vulnerability, such as contact improvisation dance jams. I explain the My Choice Decision Navigator and Our Choices Solution Facilitator I’m developing for people impacted by sexual violence. And I offer commentary on current events that model—or fail to model—a culture of consent.

I have no illusions: the journey to a culture of consent is long. To persevere, we need hope, a belief in a positive future. This reservoir of hope is sustaining me, and I offer it to you. We can draw on its reserves when we need encouragement. I continue to add to it, so please subscribe below for email notifications of new content. Or follow on Medium where I crosspost most posts. Please share your thoughts and reflections with me by email or in comments. And if you find hope and help in my writing and have the funds, please donate!

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Latest Posts

• The Lives I Lost in 2023: Carol, Jahmés, Carol, Wally, Fayyad, Oreo, Shedrick, and Erica
• Video! The Foundational Value of Safer Brave Space
• On Being in the Footnotes of Famous Feminist Scholars
• Victim-Survivors Are Doin’ It for Themselves, and That’s a Problem
• My Hand Door Knocking in the New York Times!
• My Chicago Sun-Times Letter on Fr. Pfleger’s Support
• A Trio of Transitions: Judy, Hannah, and Mark
• Art about Safer Brave Space at Going Dutch Festival
• Creating and Showing Counterstories in Elgin, Illinois
• April Showers Rain on RAINN’s Reign
• Finally! Rain on RAINN’s Reign
• Restoring a Lyric for Generations
• Our Choices Solution Facilitator on Podcast: More to the Story …
• Simone Biles and Rachael Denhollander: Modern Prophets
• A Call for Contact Improvisation Citizens
• The New Yorker Missed that Wikipedia Misses Women
• Connecting the Dots: Jeffrey Toobin, Sexism, The New Yorker
• Why, as a Sexual Assault Survivor, I Don’t Believe Tara Reade
• My Rejected Letters to The New Yorker
• Liz Tells Miriam about the My Choice Decision Navigator
• Presenting on Survivor-Centered Decision Making
• Let’s ‘Lift the Lowly High’ in Liturgical Music
• Our Accountability for Church Music Composer David Haas’ Abuse
• When Reform Doesn’t Work
• Just Say “No” to Teachers Who Troll : Counterstory #2: Alternatives
• Is It Time to Rain on RAINN’s Reign? “Nation’s Largest Sexual Violence Organization” Thinks Police Can Stop Rape
• My Path to Decision Making after Sexual Violence
• Published Work on Safer Brave Space
• Can’t We Just Dance? A Counterstory
• The Shift from Rape Culture to Consent Culture
• The Beaulieu Tools for Creating Safer Brave Spaces
• A Call for Co-Strugglers
• Notes on Language in this Blog
• What is Contact Improvisation?
• Decision Navigator in the News
• Earlier Writing on Sexual Violence Prevention

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Common Topics in Reservoir Of Hope

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