Healing Together Utah: Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2022

April 2022 marks the 21st anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). This year our theme is Healing Together Utah. The Rape Recovery Center wanted to incorporate a campaign that focuses solely on education, prevention, and awareness of sexual violence across the state of Utah. We hope to heal together as a state; we can end sexual violence by healing together.

This year, we have developed partnerships with over ten organizations and communication with over sixteen agencies across Utah. Whether you are in the Wasatch front, throughout the great basin, or dispersed around the red rocks and canyonlands, we want communities to know that they have resources and information for sexual violence.

Denim Day

“Denim Day is a campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The campaign began after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it.” -Peace Over Violence