By Lauren Rives One of the things that’s struck me the most in doing sexual violence prevention work is that society almost always talks about harm retroactively. It happened to someone. Someone hurt another. We offer aid, support and change after a tragedy or trauma has occurred. Because of this, our society typically confronts violence […]
Read MoreBy Jilly Mcbane When I was younger, my parents set strict curfews for me. Finally got my driver’s license? Yes!!! Home by 10 p.m. on a weekend night? Hell no. Or, I mean, ugh fine … But as the time approached and none of my friends had left the party yet, I had to say, […]
Read MoreAllie Moore (She, her, Hers), Student Staff Member The app Yik Yak was popular for our generation in 2016 then died down and was never heard from again. Until last spring when it started to pick up traction again on college campuses across the country. Last night, on January 26th, 2022, a U of U […]
Read Moreby Blessing Heelis, Undergraduate Staff, MCVP Black minidress with puff sleeves, white sneakers, and my hair in pigtails: this is what I was wearing when my neighbor catcalled me. Earlier that morning while getting ready, I felt very cute. But after being catcalled, I felt gross. As my neighbor exclaimed, “Good Lord!” and stared […]
Read Moreby Chris Linder, Director, MCVP This morning, as with most mornings, I opened my New York Times email to skim the headlines. I saw the headline, Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok and sighed. Here we go again, I thought. Another story about how if girls just knew the right things […]
Read MoreAllie Moore, Student Staff As the school year comes to a close, I think it is crucial to reflect on the turmoil of a year we have all experienced. It hasn’t all been miserable but it definitely has not been the best year ever. Through ups and downs, highs and lows this year has felt […]
Read MoreMichelle Valdes I took a Praxis Lab through the University of Utah Honors College in 2018-2019. A Praxis Lab is a year-long experiential course with a “theme” focused on real-world issues. The course is split into two parts, Fall and Spring. Fall, being utilized as a traditional education course and Spring shifting the focus to […]
Read MoreBy Brooke Adams Before the final tick of the clock ended the 2021 session of the Utah Legislature, lawmakers considered or acted on about a dozen bills related to the work of the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention. While the center does not focus on response or policy, what happens more broadly on campus, in […]
Read MorePhoto from USA Today As we keep listening to the news about the mass murder of primarily Asian women in Atlanta, we grow more and more disheartened by our society’s collective understanding of misogyny, white supremacy, and hate. Even more specifically, we are so over the ways we talk about white men’s violence – “he […]
Read MoreMary-Jo Dalton, Student Staff The McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention focuses on just that—prevention. The structure of the MCVP utilizes a power-conscious and intersectional framework. This framework guides the work of preventing relationship and sexual violence (RSV). The MCVP differs from other centers on campus in that our sole focus is primary prevention. We undertake […]
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