Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. David Leitch about his recent article “Toward a Culture of Care and Consent.”    

To see more information about Dave, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.      

Read a transcript of this episode.   

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!   

Edited by Ellen Jarosz   

Learn more:   

• CSUN Queer Studies Program   
• CSUN University Library  
• Circa Queer Histories Festival  

More Reading:  

• Elizabeth Brake. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Joseph J. Fischel. Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Catharine A. MacKinnon. Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Ronald C. Den Otter. In Defense of Plural Marriage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Carole Pateman. The Sexual Contract. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy 
• Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Jonathan Turley. “An Unholy Union: Same Sex Marriage and the Use of Governmental Programs to Penalize Religious Groups with Unpopular Practices,” in Douglas Laycock, et al, eds. Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Williams, D.J., et al. “From ‘SSC’ and ‘RACK’ to the ‘4Cs’: Introducing a New Framework for Negotiating BDSM Participation.” Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality 17 (2014). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271854517_From_SSC_and_RACK_to_the_4Cs_Introducing_a_New_Framework_for_Negotiating_BDSM_Participation