Narrating Utah

Episode 40: Season 6 Ep. 3: Plastic Surgery in Utah

May 6th, 2025  |  Season 6  |  29 mins 12 secs

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In this episode, we explore the relationship between Utah's homogenous culture and the skyrocketing rates of plastic surgery. People of all ages are pulled to plastic surgery through the influences of social media, homogenous culture competition, and normalization of these cosmetic procedures.

Episode 39: Season 6 Ep. 2: Authentically You - A Story of Perseverance in Utah

May 6th, 2025  |  Season 6  |  21 mins 25 secs

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Chancy and Rye, an interracial gay couple, are thriving queer business owners in Utah—proving you don’t have to escape a negative situation to find community and success.

Episode 38: Season 6 Ep. 1: From the Beehive: Talking about Sex Education in Utah

May 6th, 2025  |  Season 6  |  21 mins 32 secs

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Our episode is about sex education in Utah and how an abstinence based curriculum is not enough. We want to explore educators' perspectives on sex education and the corresponding history of curriculum in Utah. We dive deeper into the possibilities of sex education.

Episode 37: Season 5 Ep. 4: Dating at 100 mph: Eternity or Bust

May 5th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  22 mins 50 secs

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In this season students at Westminster University discuss the politics of sexuality and gender in Utah by examining the anti-trans bill, HB257, the history of women's suffrage in Utah, dating practices at BYU, and conversion therapy at BYU.

Episode 35: Season 5 Ep. 2: The Personal Lives of Utah’s Suffragists

May 5th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  18 mins 15 secs

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In this season students at Westminster University discuss the politics of sexuality and gender in Utah by examining the anti-trans bill, HB257, the history of women's suffrage in Utah, dating practices at BYU, and conversion therapy at BYU.

Episode 36: Season 5 Ep. 3: Utah's Legacies of Conversion Therapy

May 5th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  19 mins 36 secs

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In this season students at Westminster University discuss the politics of sexuality and gender in Utah by examining the anti-trans bill, HB257, the history of women's suffrage in Utah, dating practices at BYU, and conversion therapy at BYU.

Episode 34: Season 5 Ep. 1: Anti-Queer Legislation Where Law Meets Home

May 5th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  27 mins 4 secs

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In this season students at Westminster University discuss the politics of sexuality and gender in Utah by examining the anti-trans bill, HB257, the history of women's suffrage in Utah, dating practices at BYU, and conversion therapy at BYU.

Episode 31: Solidarity not Charity, SLCMA as an Alternative

June 11th, 2021  |  Season 3  |  19 mins 39 secs

Episode 30: Lily E Gray, a Victim and a Part of the Heart of Utah

June 11th, 2021  |  Season 3  |  19 mins 13 secs

Episode 28: Salt Lake City Parks and Culture

June 11th, 2021  |  Season 3  |  19 mins 18 secs

Episode 29: A Week on the Green River

June 11th, 2021  |  Season 3  |  15 mins 32 secs

Episode 27: Is it Prohibition, Is it Utah?

June 11th, 2021  |  Season 3  |  25 mins 43 secs

Episode 6: The Cold Case of Rosie Tapia

May 2nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  54 mins 20 secs

Episode 4: The Tragedy of Lori Hacking

May 2nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  25 mins 3 secs

Episode 5: Prescription for Murder

May 2nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 29 secs

Episode 2: The Disappearance of Kyplin Davis : A 26 Year Long Search For Answers

April 29th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  37 mins 32 secs