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Embracing Failure to End Sexual Violence

Lauren Rives, Student Staff Member I have a confession to make: I’m a recovering perfectionist. I overthink things, trying to analyze every possible outcome to maximize my chances of success. I’m not great at delegating, since I want to make sure every detail of what I’m working on is going smoothly. I spend hours making […]

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Harm Is A Shared Responsibility

By Tillie Powell, Student Staff Member My Utah story is a dime a dozen. I was raised in a big, devoutly religious family in the suburbs of Salt Lake, and when I came to the University of Utah, I ended up leaving my religion of origin. All this to say, for the majority of my […]

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Beyond the Birds and the Bees

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By Addie Huff, Student Staff Member Awkward, uneasy, confused, All things I felt as sex was discussed in my early childhood. As I got older and began to think back on my sex education, I realized these discussions barely scratched the surface. These conversations in my personal life and school mostly revolved around anatomical terms […]

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Goodnight Nightcaps

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By Allie Moore and Whitney Hills Recently well-intended student groups at the University of Utah carried out an initiative to supply the campus community with Nightcaps. Nightcaps are scrunchies that have drink covers tucked inside them. The drink covers are intended to be used to prevent drugs from being put into unsuspecting humans’ drinks at […]

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We have a podcast!!!

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By Jilly Mcbane “Hello and welcome to The New Consent Narrative. My name is Jilly Mcbane.” I hope you get used to hearing that as it is my honor to introduce to you our very own podcast from the MCVP! As you can probably tell by the introduction, the podcast is titled, “The New Consent […]

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Reflections on our “You Might Be Causing Harm If…” campaign

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By Lauren Rives The McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education officially implemented our poster campaign, “You Might Be Causing Harm If…” on January 17. The student staff members came up with this idea almost a year ago, so it’s been in the works for quite a while. We wanted to be very intentional […]

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