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“You’d think that training to be an Intimacy Coordinator for TV and Film would be about sexual freedom and kinky shenanigans. For me, I became more careful, more reserved, and shyer than ever. I got in touch with a younger, purer self that didn’t second guess what my body was trying to tell me. But it also illuminated the ways in which I have ignored my own boundaries, boundaries I no longer push myself to cross.”
“Intimacy coordinators have a skillset and a knowledge bank that I don’t—that no show runner has,” Waithe explained to Refinery29. “Sure, we can write an intimate scene, but we don’t always know how to make sure that actors are really comfortable.”
“Mia has been navigating sex positivity through art, performance, philosophy, and most recently in coordinating consensual boundaries around intimacy for film and television. She also offers classes online to help people understand and communicate their own boundaries. We discuss her work and its relevance in the #MeToo era to understand the emergency and necessity for intimacy coordination in media.”
“As an intimacy coordinator, Mia helps people struggling with self advocacy, boundaries, and communication. Through practice, meditative exercise, different scripts, and a multitude of other different methods, she guides a number of sessions to help boost people’s consent and boundary skills.”
”Morgan-Wixson's latest mainstage production THE WILD PARTY, beginning March 13, 2020, has incorporated the not usually seen, but much needed intimacy coordinator to their offstage team of creatives/technicians. I had the wonderful opportunity to delve into the importance of having such a professional onsite to navigate comfortable boundaries in sex scenes in my interview with Mia Schachter.”
“Hillman Grad Productions will work with an inclusive team of intimacy coordinators for the newly launched program. The team will include Mia Schachter, who worked as Consent Educator and intimacy coordinator on Waithe’s Twenties on BET as well as HBO’s Perry Mason and Insecure. Also joining the team are Yehuda Duenyas, intimacy coordinator and Emmy award-winning Experiential Director as well as Jimanekia Eborn, Queer Media Consultant, Comprehensive Sexuality Educator and Sexual Assault & Trauma Expert with an MS in Health Psychology.”
“This week Audrey Moore talks with Intimacy Coordinator Mia Schachter about all things related to sex in your career, on set and off. It's an EXPLICIT episode, but an important one!”
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“Most of the time, the initial answer from an actor is, “You can touch me anywhere.” The impulse is completely understandable; actors want to be flexible and game for anything. But what I’ve found is that helping the actors build a solid menu so that anything not on that menu is off the table, is the best way to get them to feel free to play. The restraints help them be creative within a container. If an actor says, “I’m fine with whatever,” that can be paralyzing for their scene partner. If they can say, “You can grab my boobs, you can grab my ass, you can pull my hair like this…” the other actor has concrete ideas of what they can do and feels comfortable to explore.” -Mia Schachter
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