genesis ripley is a Black, queer, genderless poet, speaker, and cultural re-imaginist, and the inspiritor of The Technologies of Consent ~ a living practice exploring consent as a way of relating, listening, and being changed by what we witness. Through talks, conversations, workshops, poetic offerings, and ceremonies genesis invites communities into deeper accountability, self-witnessing, and relational integrity beyond hierarchy , coersion and compliance. Their work weaves poetry, lived experience, and ceremonial attention to reimagine conflict, intimacy, governance, and belonging as consensual architectures of care. genesis is the author of Mythology of a Dragon and the forthcoming fugitive, and the founder of Flame Tongue Press.