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The New Consent Narrative

The New Consent Narrative
Author: Jilly Mcbane
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This is a podcast from the University of Utah's McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education about consent and breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence and what you can do about it.
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On this week’s episode of The New Consent Narrative, Jilly Mcbane sits down to record a solo segment where she shares insight on her past four years working at the MCVP. She reflects on the fundamental ways she’s changed: letting go of perfectionism, embracing community and collaborative work, and recognizing her own capacity to cause harm. She talks about fun projects she has gotten to work on, including the You Might Be Causing Harm If Campaign, which was launched on campus at the Universit...
On this week’s episode of The New Consent Narrative, Jilly Mcbane sits down with Elaine Newton, who recently accepted the position as new director of the MCVP! Elaine has been around on campus for some time, formerly serving as education specialist for the University of Utah’s Office of Equal Opportunity. Elaine has extensive experience working with people who’ve caused harm, particularly “respondents,” or individuals who have had a report made about their behavior. Jilly and Elaine discuss p...
On this week’s episode of The New Consent Narrative, Jilly Mcbane is joined by close friend, Sarah Herring, who is a psychology and business student at the University of Utah. Sarah shares her experience of harm during a summer job in Madeira, Portugal. Together, Sarah and Jilly analyze the contextual factors related to power, privilege, and identity that created this experience of harm. They dive into concepts such as the role of the bystander, victim blaming, and rape myths, and how it appl...
On this week’s episode of The New Consent Narrative, Jilly Mcbane is joined by Allie Moore, education content coordinator at the MCVP. They dive into the different types of relationships college students experience, including dating relationships, situationships, hookups, and friendships. They draw from some of their own relationship experience and how we can start to understand and dismantle our unspoken assumptions and rules to avoid causing harm. A few takeaways include reflecting on our o...
In this episode, host Jilly Mcbane talks with three scholars—Chris Linder, Nadeeka Karunaratne, and Niah Grimes—about how abolitionist practices can end sexual violence in higher education, once and for all. Together, they dismantle the idea that policing and punishment are the appropriate solutions for ending sexual violence. Instead, they envision a world where violence ceases to exist and invite listeners to do the same. Throughout the discussion, they reference Linder, Karunaratne, and Gr...
"In this episode, MCVP student staff members Jilly McBane and Addie Huff discuss all things boundaries...respecting them, setting them, and why they are important in relationships of all kinds. Addie and Jilly share experiences from their own college lives of where they found their boundaries being crossed, as well as when they have unintentionally crossed someone else's boundary. Other topics covered include the meaning being saying "no" to sex, what it feels like to be rejected, and how we ...
In this episode, host Jilly Mcbane is joined by guest, Jarad Ringer, licensed clinical social worker and Associate Director of Violence Prevention and Mental Health Counseling at the MCVP. With Jarad's extensive background working with people who cause harm, as well as his personal experience as a gay man, they engage in a thought-provoking conversation about queer students and sexual violence. In this first segment, they focus on how queer individuals harm each other within their communities...
Continuing their conversation on queer individuals and sexual violence, host Jilly Mcbane and guest, Jarad Ringer, dive into how harm happens AGAINST queer communities and spaces. Some topics covered are the ways in which the police cause harm to trans folks and hate crimes committed against the LGBTQ+ community at large. They focus on how and why power is abused to cause sexual harm to queer individuals. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey Center for Violence Prevent...
On another episode of The New Consent Narrative: host, Jilly McBane sits down with Quincy Brown as they discuss the different ways in which community plays into relationship and sexual violence prevention. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, visit the website by clicking on this link. The New Consent Narrative is hosted by Jilly Mcbane, a student staff member at the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Res...
The New Consent Narrative continues with our fifth episode, Navigating Nuance. Host Jilly McBane and guest Lauren Rives discuss the nuances surrounding consent, dating, and everything in between! The New Consent Narrative is aimed at breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, visit the website by clicking on this link. The New Consent Narrat...
The New Consent Narrative is back with a fourth episode! Host Jilly Mcbane along with her guest Brenda Payan-Medina, discuss one of the most important topics related to violence: POWER. Power is all around us and is unavoidable. It is important and necessary to address issues of power in order to intervene with harm. The New Consent Narrative is aimed at breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey...
In the third episode of The New Consent Narrative, host Jilly Mcbane and guest Allie Moore, the graduate assistant at the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discuss how violence prevention work has impacted their own lives and how they’ve changed as people, as well as the ways in which they hope to see others change. The New Consent Narrative is aimed at breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence. To learn more about the ...
In the second episode of The New Consent Narrative, Jilly Mcbane and U student Oliver Liston talk about relationships, consent, boundaries, sexual scripts and more. The New Consent Narrative is a podcast from the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education about consent and breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence and what you can do about it. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Re...
The New Consent Narrative is a podcast from the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education about consent and breaking down myths and misconceptions about relationship and sexual violence and what you can do about it. In Episode 1, host Jilly Mcbane is joined by Tillie Powell, also a student staff member at the center, for a conversation about primary prevention as a way of addressing relationship and sexual violence. To learn more about the University of Utah's McCluskey ...