Check out this post on the Men’s Anti-Violence Council website. Check out this new campaign by the amazing advocates over at RVAP. Just in time for Sexual Assault Awareness month, the new campaign is called Live Free: a life on campus free from violence. Check out the posters below as well as the pdf 20 Ways that UI students can Live Free. [...]

Check out this  New York Times article about a new way to use technology to address street harassment. Street harassment activist website  Hollaback! recently created an iPhone app which allows recipients of street harassment to take a picture of the perpetrator, automatically report the location of the harassment, define the type of the harassment and receive a [...]

Gizmodo recently wrote  a post about electronics and violence from the results of a survey conducted by the  Cyberbullying Research Center. The Cyberbullying Research Center is interested in better understanding and promoting the concept of “electronic dating violence.” They define it as  “emotional or psychological harm in a romantic relationship perpetrated through the use of computers, cell phones, or [...]

“I get the feeling of becoming a Billy Elliot – I dance, he dances; his dad don’t like him to dance, my dad don’t like me to dance.” – 9 year old Harvey Pratt, member of the all boy cheerleading troupe. Earlier this month, the  BBC ran a great story about an all boy cheerleading club from a [...]

I looked all weekend for something to post on the website and nothing stood out. I scoured my Google alerts and checked out the usual news suspects and could not find a single thing that motivated me enough to write a post. So, this morning I sign into Napster and was informed that country music [...]

At MAC, the majority of our efforts are dedicated to the prevention of violence. Primary prevention is a necessary step in making our communities safer. However, numerous things must occur in conjunction with prevention. We need to make sure that there are adequate services for victims, appropriate laws and policies to protect victims and the means to [...]

Can you think of a better medium to convey important violence prevention messages than stick figures? I created some violence prevention bulletin board material for our residence halls and needed something visual. We have the  MAC social media campaign posters , but I needed a way to create different scenarios showing people challenging inappropriate language, attitudes and [...]