Michele Meek > Quotes

“Consent culture represents a concerted effort to shift our cultural norms from trivializing nonconsent to focusing on clearly expressed consent. In short, consent culture is a response to rape culture.”
― Michele Meek, Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies

“Adolescent sexuality ultimately exists within an adult world of laws, rules, and cultural meanings and yet is also full of its own rebellions, contradictions, and resistances.”
― Michele Meek, Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies

“Trying new things, aiming high, and taking bold risks, can lead to failure or success. Putting yourself out there means you might fail miserably or succeed tremendously—or anywhere in between. You don’t get to decide. But you do get to try.”
― Michele Meek, The Mastermind Failure Club: A Self-Empowerment Guide for Artists, Filmmakers, Writers and Other Creative Entrepreneurs

“If we think that these women filmmakers have worked 'in the margins,' it is we who have kept them there.”
― Michele Meek, Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos

“Consent culture has undoubtedly curbed certain depictions in film and tele- vision, while encouraging others to flourish. As the arbiter of depictions of adolescent sexuality, filmmakers of teen films undoubtedly respond to cultural pressures and norms. In many ways, consent culture provides filmmakers a new production “code”—one that suggests not what is morally decent, but rather what is ethical in contemporary society.”
― Michele Meek, Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies