Chloe Bryant ’29 holds a sign saying “NO MEANS NO” while marching past Kenna Hall during Slut Walk on Friday, April 10, 2026. **(Nina Glick/The Santa Clara)**

The Santa Clara Community Action Program brought Slut Walk back to campus on April 10. This year, the event showed up with a new theme, a broader coalition of participating organizations and a first-time organizer who helped shape its creative direction from start to finish.

This year’s theme, “Writing is Resistance: Your Story Matters,” centered storytelling as a form of activism, drawing on a feminist lens and placing strong emphasis on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices.

Chloe Bryant ’29, this year’s program coordinator, is behind the development of the concepts and pointed out that the idea grew from something personal.

“I want to write romance novels for a living,” she said. “Romance novels have become really popular, and they do a great job of spreading love and awareness without people even realizing it. These issues are very important, but people don’t want to talk about them. Seeing them through a different light makes it possible.”

SCCAP Associate Director Jasmine Vu ’26 paints a t-shirt during Slut Walk on Friday, April 10, 2026. **(Elaine Zhang/The Santa Clara)**

The theme also reflected a practical idea: that writing lowers the barrier to participation.

“You don’t have to say anything out loud, you can just write it down,” Bryant said. “As someone who is friends with victims, their voices are heard, but they don’t have to go out and say it.”

The event ran from noon to 3 p.m. in the California Mission Room, in the basement of Benson Memorial Center. Opening remarks kicked things off, followed by tabling, writing activities and an open mic where attendees could speak. Claire Krebs ’26, the president of Associated Student Government, also spoke. A closing march ran from 2:30-3 p.m.

Organizing the event at a Jesuit University hasn’t come without tension. Per University policy, organizers were prohibited from directly distributing condoms at the event. This restriction has shaped how SCCAP navigates outreach around sexual health.

Chloe Wong ’22, a professional staff advisor for SCCAP, described the workaround their organization has landed on.

“Per us being a Jesuit Catholic university, we are not allowed to hand out condoms,” Wong said. “We have figured out ways to do that. We have had condoms in our SCCAP office and on the table. If someone walks in and asks us about SCCAP and takes a condom, you are not directly handing them out.”

This approach shows how campus organizations have had to work around University guidelines while still providing students access to sexual health resources.

Dylan Sofia Caballero ’26, director of SCCAP, acknowledged that SlutWalk looks different every year, and because of that, different groups will have different reactions.

For students who have never attended, organizers made their request simple: show up, even if you don’t think the event is specifically for you.

“Even if you’re not a victim of sexual assault or violence, it’s still important to show up,” Bryant said. “Even if you don’t fit into the categories we’re talking about, if you know somebody or you read about it online, then you’re impacted by it.”