Author Honey Badger

A gift is voluntary. A gift does not come with pressure, urgency, or implied debt. When I give freely, it is because I choose to—not because I am convinced that saying no would make me ungrateful, difficult, or invisible. My work already exists. It does not need to be justified through depletion.

Art is not neutral. It carries nervous systems, lived experience, and meaning that did not arise in a vacuum. When someone engages with a piece of work—reading it, sharing it, teaching from it, performing it, monetizing it—they are entering a relationship. Consent applies to that relationship.