Shana’s radio interview! UPDATED
That’s right, we couldn’t let Emma have all the fun with the radio interviews, and we’re excited to announce that Shana will be talking about Speak About It with Lesbian Radio in Portland, ME at 1pm on Wednesday, May 8th. Tune in from Maine at 90.9 or 104.1 or you can listen online here. Conversation [...]
Bangor Daily News Op Ed Series
This month, the Bangor Daily News has been running daily Op Eds about sexual assault awareness, prevention, and education from groups and individuals throughout the state of Maine. We’ve heard from board members from non-profit groups, staff members at various in-state organizations, police officers, nurses and many more. We were thrilled to be a part [...]
Join our Team!
Think you’d be a good fit and want to participate in Speak About It? Great! We’ll be having an audition in Portland, ME on Saturday, May 11th. Please contact us at SpeakAboutItOnline [at] gmail [dot] com if you have any questions or you’re interested in participating. [CASTING CALL - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 22, 2013] [...]
Planned Parenthood Recap
Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who came out to Planned Parenthood in Portland last Thursday. We had over 50 people in the audience in the new gallery space, including resources from the Planned Parenthood office downstairs and Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (SARSSM). We always love doing a local Portland [...]
Party With Consent at Colby College
One of the best parts about touring with this performance is getting to know people on different college campuses across the country who are passionately engaged in sexual assault prevention. Students, administrators, deans, faculty-members, sound engineers, parents.. we are so fortunate to meet great people on every campus, people who want to change their campuses [...]
Live show in Portland!
It’s that time of year again, when Speak About It stages their annual performance during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This year, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be partnering with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (SARSSM) for a night of programming centered on healthy sexuality, communication, [...]
A Reaction to Steubenville
A Reaction to Steubenville; Musings of a former NCAA Athlete and Speak About It Cast Member by Nick Smith As a cast member of Speak About It in 2010 and 2011 and a former NCAA hockey player at Bowdoin College, I’m someone who has belonged to a range of different cultures regarding talking about sex. [...]
2013 Update!
It is with great pride that I write to you with an update about Speak About It. In the three years since we began production independently of Bowdoin College, we have performed at ten different colleges: Bates College, Brown College, Colby College, Cornell University, Hamilton College, Harvard University, Haverford College, the University of Southern Maine, [...]
We loved like whoa. And it was awesome.
It’s been about a week since our LOVE LIKE WHOA event at the Portland Flea-for-All, and it was so wonderful! We welcomed over 50 people to the space as people browsed the merchant tables, listened to amazing live music (thanks Dietrich and Laura!), and had great conversation about sexual assault prevention and the VDAY movement. [...]
Emma’s Thoughts about V-Day and LOVE LIKE WHOA
On Thursday, February 14th, Speak About It, in collaboration with the Portland Flea-For-All and Gentle Hex, is sponsoring an amazing One Billion Rising event, LOVE LIKE WHOA. One Billion Rising is a global event that was started by V-Day, an international organization to help stop violence against women, in an effort to bring forth sexual [...]
