SOCCS 2025

This is a space for trans and cis men.

We meet in affinity groups to feel the  solidarity, soft space and rejuvenation that come from these groups. Affinity groups are open to individuals who identify as members of the group and can speak to the experience of being a member of the group from the "I" perspective. We acknowledge that we all  hold multiple and intersecting identities, and that you may need to make a choice to focus on one of your identities during this session. We invite you to bring your wholeness into whichever space you choose for this conversation.

This discussion room is a student-only space to foster conversation about the impact of hook-up culture. What are the risks and opportunities, and how do we interface that with ourselves? Hook-up culture can be engaged with and participated in on many levels. As the session leader and a high school student, I hope to hold a meaningful conversation directed by curated questions while leaving room for open discussion.  

Using scenarios drawn from the experience of real schools tackling sexism and sexual violence, this dynamic and evidence-based workshop will help equip participants with knowledge and strategies to prevent, respond, and resolve relationship and sexual violence,  harassment, and misogyny and to champion gender equality within their schools and communities. 3 Questions that will be Discussed: 1. How can schools holistically and proactively champion safe student relationships and healthy gender identities, values, and behaviors? 2. How might individuals, families, and society transform when schools proactively teach the skills and knowledge to engage in healthy, equitable, and consensual relationships? 3. What happens when schools ignore misogynistic jokes and comments, harassing behavior and language, and worse? What do individuals learn–targets, perpetrators, and bystanders? What happens in our communities? Participant Takeaways: Identify frameworks, strategies, and resources related to 1) responding to and preventing sexual violence, misogyny, and harassment and 2) advancing gender-equitable and healthy relationships, identities, and cultures.

Best Practices are the basics of consent for the theatre, including tools for developing consent-based lessons, setting boundaries, desexualizing the process of intimacy on stage, and vocabulary.

We will walk through basic trauma informed practices, including a boundary exercise that is the basic foundation of all intimacy training for the stage. You will leave learning fences and gates, and a boundary exercise you can use in real-world practice beyond the stage.