Where's Your Line?
In the 2024 Fall semester, the Title IX Office started Where's Your Line?, an educational campaign focused on encouraging students to consider how they communicated their consent, or their 'line.' This is done by encouraging students to write out an answer to the question "How do you communicate your line?" on a card that would be anonymously displayed with other students' answers. This website archives all submissions and features additional resources that encourage students to explore how they can both give and receive consent.
What are you comfortable with?
Most people have some idea about what the word 'consent' means. It's the permission given by someone to someone else. In a romantic situation, this usually has to do with what a person is comfortable with happening while engaged with a partner or partners.
It's easy enough to list off definitions and explanations, but it isn't always enough to simply know what consent means. The word has baggage around it. People feel strongly about how it shapes conversations around dating, romance, and sex. Here at Idaho State University, students come from a wide array of backgrounds and upbringings; not all of them are raised with the same definition of what consent is or looks like. What could be a sign of consent for one person may not have that same meaning for another.
There are as many ways to express consent as there are people on this planet. This site has been created as part of a campaign out of the Title IX office to showcase that fact, and to assert that each way is valid. This validity means that each way should be given the same level of respect as the other.
The other goal of this site is to encourage you (yes, you) to consider what you do in your own relationships to communicate your consent. Or, if you are not currently in a relationship, consider what steps you want to take in the future to share your boundaries. If you don't know where to start, it could be helpful to read the submissions on this page, or to explore some of the links to boundary-setting tools.
This Week's Submission
"Clearly stating how I am feeling & what I will and will not do. Also relaying that I have the right to change my mind."
Want to get involved?
Title IX would love to know how you communicate consent. How do you show your line? If you are interested in sharing, please feel free to come to one of our Where's Your Line? tabling events or stop by the Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX, right at the first floor main entrance of the Rendezvous building. There, you can fill out a Where's Your Line? card and pick out some free Title IX-exclusive stickers! We hope to see you there.
Want to learn more?
Explore these links to find out more about consent, how you can express it, and how you can respect others' right to consent.
