The consent activist’s refreshing views on doubt, determination and death-threats.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Chanel Contos. The 25-year-old activist and author founded the Teach Us Consent movement. She’s a member of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership and founder of its Global Youth Committee.
“There are things I said two years ago: I might change the way I said them and I’ve learnt more since then...it’s not me losing faith in my message or doubting what I said before.”You’re a consent-education activist. Is it true that you have experienced death threats as a result of your work? I haven’t – touch wood – received a death threat in a while. But when I started the petition [calling for sexual-consent education in NSW schools in 2021], I’d get them frequently – and very frequently when I was posting testimonies. It was retaliation, mainly from men.No, because I was in London and this was all happening in Australia. I felt as if I had a kind of safety shield running the campaign from over here.No, it’s not.
That’s the first quote in my book because I love it. Someone sent it to me when I was really mad at someone else – they were trying to rid themselves of some accountability – and asking for advice. This quote [attributed to late US political commentator Michael Brooks] put things in perspective and stuck with me.
The most common types of sexual assault and rape in Australia do not fit a stereotypical understanding or perception of rape. At scale, the most common age to perpetrate sexual violence – to perpetrate sexual assault – is 15 to 19 in Australian males. These young men are doing these acts a lot of the time because they’re mimicking what they see in pornography. They’ve bought into the idea that a woman exists for the purpose of pleasing a man.
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