<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear All,</span></div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43018">This</a> blog post welcomes Bri Matusovsky as a new assistant editor to the 4S Backchannels Global North team. Bri is a PhD Candidate in Medical Anthropology at UC San Francisco - UC Berkeley. </div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This post is the first in a 4-part series on Sex and Gender in Primate Worlds, following up on a panel of the same name at the 4S 2025 convening in Seattle, Washington. The following post in the series will be released on January 19th.</div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div id="m_-5938356211454331850m_8403601483595775852gmail-:1kb" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="m_-5938356211454331850m_8403601483595775852gmail-:243" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div id="m_-5938356211454331850m_8403601483595775852gmail-avWBGd-126"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><a href="https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43018">Beyond 'Yes or No': Affective Consent, and The Complications of Acknowledging Non-Verbal Consent</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Shashank</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/shashankdeora" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/shashankdeora</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>Shashank Deora</b><br></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.4sonline.org/backchannels.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">4S Backchannels</a></i></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>PhD Student</i></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas</i></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India</i></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/shashankdeora" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><i>https://sites.google.com/view/shashankdeora</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>