Humans' racial and cultural biases often affect the communication of informed consent in medicinal and educational fields (Feyi 2022; Vyas et al. 2021). In these settings, it becomes clear that implicit, conscious, and subliminal preconceptions of one another's identitiessocioeconomic status, age, gender, nationality, religion, race, and other protected statusesimpacts clear and effective communication, as well as the respecting of boundaries. It behooves scholar-artists to consider the ways in

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... which our biases and cultural competencies affect the communication of consent within performance, as well. The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars engaged with consent-based performance-in theory or in practice-to interrogate the role and importance of cultural competency in consent-based performance. We invite authors to analyze the roles of consent and cultural competency in existing theatrical texts, performance works, and approaches to crafting performance. We invite interdisciplinary theorizing that can inform intimacy professionals in developing more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consentbased performance philosophies and approaches. Furthermore, we invite reporting on the broad range of practices emerging throughout the world that focus on consent and performance, broadly conceived. We invite contributions that consider: