Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband" <>]

okay, I know April is in just a few days, but I was driving in Michigan this 
week and had this idea for a radio (and possibly TV) public service 
announcement series for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.  This would work both 
as a 30 and 60 second PSA, I think, and would be easy to produce at a campus 
radio station.

Part One: (beginning of the song "Respect") What you want (hoot) Baby I got 
it (hoot) 
(song fades into the background as you hear the voiceover.

Two: Student's voice saying how s/he likes to make out/fool around with 
her/his partner, including how they figure out consent as a couple.  Include 
verbal and nonverbal ways to say "no" and "yes."  

Three: Voiceover with information about sexual assault and consent, ending 
with hotline information.

Four: (song fades back to foreground) C-O-N-S-E-N-T/Find out what it means to 
me

and then it would fade out.  Part two could include various folks in 
different versions of the PSA, and could include a diversity of sexual 
orientations, races, ages, etc.  

The campaign could be accompanied by a similar poster campaign with photos, 
and those posters could have "C-O-N-S-E-N-T/Find out what it means to me" at 
the bottom.  But I don't think it'd connect with folks unless it was also a 
radio and/or TV PSA - when they saw the posters, it'd evoke the song if 
they'd heard it already.  

That's the idea - someone would have to record the "new" version of the song 
to make this happen, but that could be done in the very same radio station.  
Have fun with it - please let me know if anyone tries this!  

Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org (video clips 
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Booking information: 978-897-3619 (note new number - I moved!)

Quote of the Month, March 2008, Women's History (Herstory?) Month
"There are few facts in my humble life with which I look back with more 
satisfaction than to one. that I was sufficiently enlightened at that early 
day, and when only a few years from slavery, to support Ms. Stanton's 
resolution for women's suffrage. I have done very little in this world in 
which to glory, except this one act, and I certainly glory in that. When I 
ran away from slavery, it was for myself; when I advocated emancipation, it 
was for my people; but when I stood up for the rights of woman, self was out 
of the question and I found a little nobility in the act."
- Frederick Douglass