Ask Justin 2: Consent and Vaccine Discourse

Here are the questions and some of the links I mentioned "Everyone I know and everyone I follow on social media is very pro-vaccines and so I kind of go along with the crowd on this one, without really knowing much, something I’m not proud of and want to change. All of the discourse I see online is very loud and angry and - I’m sure it’s with good reason - but I struggle to build my own stance on it based on this. I was wondering if you could answer something along the lines of ‘How can we practice consent in discussing and making choices around vaccines whilst also protecting each other and especially the most vulnerable in our society?’ I know it’s a big and sensitive topic (especially at the moment) so totally okay if it’s not something you want to tackle right now but thought I’d put it out there just in case." Freedoms and Covid https://www.bishuk.com/relationships/freedoms-and-covid/ Herd immunity https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19 Vaccine hesistancy https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n513 Going with the cognitive grain paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01483/full “I work with teenagers in my private practice and run a training course for counsellors wishing to work with C & YP I wonder if you could discuss the following question in an 'Ask Justin' show if you feel it would interest your patreons. How to support under 21's in consensual decision-making re sex? I am particularly interested in the decision-making or not of those YP who say the following ' I have to have sex or they will tell everyone at school I won't' ' It's what you do to keep a relationship' 'blow jobs aren't sex and they are expected of course' I am struck by the lack of their knowledge around consent and choice.” https://www.bishuk.com/can-we-talk-about-consent/ https://www.bishuk.com/tag/consent/ https://bishtraining.com/product/the-consent-teaching-pack/ “In response to your invitation for questions for the podcast, I was thinking recently that maybe it's time to query user guides. I think to the extent that they help people reflect and focus on their own needs and desires, it's really helpful. But I think the concept is a bit limiting. It risks fixing people's understanding of their sexuality, and propagating quite a static model of it. If you understand your sexuality is something that evolves over time, and connecting with another person as something that has a possibility of revealing different aspects of it, I'm not sure how user guides could do this justice?” Our zines https://megjohnandjustin.com/publications/ Our episode on this https://megjohnandjustin.com/you/writing-our-own-scripts/ Deleuze and Guattari episode https://culturepowerpolitics.org/podcasts/ Also latest ACFM https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/acfm-trip-14-desire