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Yeah, I guess my main takeaway from the discussion is that there’s definitely a lack of awareness. I think, for the most part, aside from maybe some of us who are athletes in here, that…

I feel like people tend to forget that just because you consent to one thing, does not mean you’re consenting to another. So, asking for consent on every step is really important and a lot…

Just more awareness really. Like, I played sports, and even when you’re at those events and they’re talking about the policies and what’s going on and all of the information, no one’s really engaged or…

I think if people that were [unclear] had a plan, or like, they [the university] showed us what steps we could go through, just in general, it would make a lot of people less anxious…

Especially from a young Black man’s perspective, it’s something that we think about a lot and even fear. Like, I remember going to school and, you know, my parents telling me, like, “Watch out for…

I agree with what everyone said, and maybe, just to go a little bit further, and just make like, somewhere that African Nova Scotians could specifically turn to in these situations. You know, say this…

So if you were to file only to the police, does that mean you can’t file to the school, or can you do both at the same time? I was also kind of wondering, let’s…

Participant 1: Yeah, I’ve only ever come across it. I had to do a module once, you know, just required to do it. But I feel like if I didn’t have to do it, I…

I was just wondering [unclear], when you mentioned the ongoing consent, I just wanna, to make it clear, I’m not talking about reporting it like a couple of months or years later, but I’m wondering,…

I don’t think there’s anything that uniquely makes it [the SV/SA policy] feel that it would consider the perspective of an African Nova Scotia male, at all. I mean, I think one of the glaring…

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