THE TEAM
Founder/CEO
Stanley Dorsainville
Stanley & Tarana Burke.
Although Tarana Burke is a big influence on our work, she is not affiliated with Consent is the Standard.
I’ve always thought that I was a “good guy” that only needed to mature in age and experience, that could not be further from the truth. Toxic masculinity in society and my own thoughts led me to believe that by simply being kind through my words and sometimes through my actions that I should automatically be given the world, from a great career to the partner of my dreams. This tainted belief and the society that helped to build it hurt not just me but also those around me, moreover femmes.
In 2017, 11 years after Tarana Burke founded the MeToo Movement to support all survivors of sexual violence, the #metoo hashtag went viral, rallies were everywhere, but what was not viral and everywhere were masculine identifying individuals, like myself, attending these rallies in support of all sexual violence survivors.
During a conversation with two of my best friends A.M. and K.B., I was told the truth about myself "yes stanley you're a sweet guy, but your silence and inaction prior to and during this movement does not make you the "good guy" you always thought you were"
From that conversation, I created Consent Is The Standard. As a cis-hetero male, I took action on my belief that changing the culture around intimacy and consent for myself and everyone else was and is absolutely necessary.
During a conference in Brooklyn, NY I met Tarana Burke who reminded me of the absolute truth that the #metoo movement was “ not a men vs women issue, but a matter that focuses on survivors”. From that conversation, I connected with folks like Indigo Mateo, Rich Reseda, and Ariel Pierre-Louis who helped me to see that toxic masculinity is the root cause for femicidal attacks and what Consent Is The Standard could and should be. It is a campaign to normalize consent and respect for all people, particularly femmes, non-gender conforming, and BIPOC communities.
Chief Operations & Programmatic Officer
Ariel A.C. Pierre-Louis
Hi, my name is Ariel Pierre-Louis. I’m a model, stylist, social critic, and all-around creative. I have always had a passion for knowledge of my surroundings since I was a child. By understanding my surroundings, I came to know that there is a system at play that oppresses specific groups of people in our society. Simultaneously, I came to understand my place in my surroundings, that I am both marginalized and privileged within some of my intersections.
With that understanding, my politic has always been to center more marginalized people than myself. I decided to incorporate, like most before me, my creative work with the oppression that we as marginalized people go through particularly in the “Now”. With this, this is how Stan and I started eventually working together through his first charity campaign and decided that “consent is the standard” is a movement I can absolutely get behind. I see us changing our world’s scope on what is and isn’t consent through centering the most marginalized voices we barely get to hear. We will help both survivors aware and unaware of the violations they may have received. I hope, as a survivor myself, we can create a safe space and expand a movement of knowledge that can both change society’s litigations/overall attitude on consent and change people for the better as they will know Consent is the Standard!