AboutCONSENT‪™‬ AboutCONSENT™, Rosalia Rivera

FINAL EP 51 HEAT INITIATIVE

Rosalia Rivera and Sarah Gardner discuss the need to hold tech giants accountable for child safety, particularly in the context of Apple's failure to detect and remove child sexual abuse material from its platforms.

They emphasize the urgency of this issue and the need for collective action to ensure the safety of children online.

Rivera and Sarah Gardner also discuss Apple's role in addressing child sexual abuse, the tension between privacy and child safety, and the importance of holding companies accountable for their actions or lack of action.


Action Items
[ ] Share the heat campaign and podcast with one other person to spread awareness
[ ] Sign the heat petition on their website calling on Apple to make requested safety changes
[ ] Support passage of the Kids Online Safety Act and contact members of Congress
[ ] Share HEAT's social media content and sign the open letter supporting their demands along with other organizations
[ ] Continue coalition-building and campaigning efforts against Apple

Rosalia Rivera discussed the reboot of the podcast for season 3 and what the season will bring. That includes talking about the Brave Movement's online safety campaign, Safer Internet, through an exciting new series. She's also releasing episodes about the growing influence of the pedophile movement in society. She emphasized the importance of prioritizing mental health, exposing red flags, and creating a consent culture to prevent child sexual abuse and promote healing and justice. Rivera highlighted the need for collective action to address this complex issue and ensure a safer world for all children and adolescents. She'll also be addressing issues around Indigenous abuse and school safety.

In this episode, I'm reviewing a blog post from the Internet Watch Foundation that I think deserves a lot of attention. This is important information that all parents need to be aware of. And at the end, I give you information on what you can do to be proactive about prevention so that you can spread the information to others!

Sibling Sexual Abuse is a growing issue. Jane Epstein, Hope Sittler and Maria Socolof join me to talk about the issue of sibling sexual abuse, what parents should know, what survivors should know and what parents can do to prevent it, and next steps if abuse is discovered.

Erin Merryn joins me to talk about Erin's Law that mandates schools to provide body safety education for grades K-12 in the United States. 38 states have passed the law and in this episode we talk about why she became a champion for schools to teach this education and what the results have been since passing the law in those states. She shares her own personal story of survival, and leadership.

For the last 14 years, I learned, through my own relationship, what orgasm equality really means. And I've become really passionate about helping other women also learn about it and start creating it in their lives.

Clitearcy has become a topic that's really fascinating to me, particularly, in the last couple of years. In 2019 I purchased the book Becoming Cliterate by Dr. Laurie Mintz. It continued to inform me. And I loved the way that she wrote about all of the aspects of sexuality within feminism that so often get lost.

Orgasm equality is also an important facet. And this is what drove me to invite Dr. Mintz to the podcast. We had an interesting conversation that I think you'll really enjoy!