More Than Words: Co-creating Engagement with Sexual Justice

Creative projects can further student engagement with sexual ethics education that understands sexual justice as a social project, not merely a series of prohibitions on individuals. This paper describes projects such as mapping sexual geographies, roleplaying policy strategists, scripting meetcutes, and designing menstruation rituals. These assignments further learning objectives through creative action: they perform intersectional analysis of the risk of sexual violence, they create examples of how opportunities promoting sexual justice can be socially produced and/or hindered, and they orient students to democratic action for a sexual health and sexual justice-informed approach to public education. Lesson plans and assignments available as handouts for adaptation or re-use.