Kayla Heddens
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Adjunct Faculty
Campus:
Kent
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Biography
My dissertation examines gender, consent scripting, and consent culture in “deviant†marginalized subcultures, particularly in members of the BDSM/ Kink community. This community highly values consent and structures its norms, values, attitudes, and sanctions to create a consent culture. I conduct qualitative interviews about participants' lived experiences within the BDSM/ Kink community to discover and evaluate how consent culture is created, enforced, and maintained and to what degree gender norms are subverted or reproduced within a consent culture. The project also examines consent culture as positive deviance. Implications for the impact of consent education are explored.
Research and Academic Interests
- Consent
- Consent Culture
- Gender and Sexualities- BDSM /Kink /Polyamorous /Queer communities
- Deviance- Positive Deviance
- Social Psychology- Symbolic Interactionism
- Stigma
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Sociology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Sociology from 91²Ö¿â, Kent, Ohio.
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Sociology from 91²Ö¿â, Kent, Ohio.
Publications
- Hilling, Alexis, Andro, Erin, Cagwin, Kayla. 2020. “Dominant Hasslin’ and Subordinate Hustlin’: A ContentAnalysis Using the Generic Processes that Reproduce Inequality†Pp. 8- 29 in Shameless Sociology: Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series
Awards/Achievements
- 2018 LEADS (Leadership, Excellence, Academic Achievement, Dedication, and Student Success) Award
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