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Participant 1: I wanted to know how many cases have been reported through this channel, and how did they go? Participant 2: Yeah! I think I am quite curious to know too. […] I know…

Participant 1: Offer them counselling because, in Africa, you can’t find counselling. Participant 2: Not even – don’t put counselling in such a way, because we don’t really understand counselling. Facilitator: Okay, maybe for us,…

Artist’s description: The black symbolizes power. The red symbolizes power. The yellow symbolizes hope. The message is to stay strong; you are not alone. By: Shir-vonne Rhodes

When someone accuses another person of sexual assault, if they are guilty, they [can] be removed from the university. During the investigation, what happens to the respondent and what happens to the complainant? So if…

Personally, I feel like too many displays is not good because they just give out negative vibrations like, “this is what happened to me.” That’s why having some testimonials where they just say their emotions,…

Participant 2: “Counselling” is such a formal word. Like, white people are used to counselling- we are not. We don’t have counsellors. So the way we talk about it is when we are at school,…

Yeah, like, in our family – usually in South India – like, the concept is that a woman’s body is the most important thing for her. Even planned sex or even assault – they don’t…

Participant 1: Both people may agree to have sex initially, but once they’ve broken up, or, something happens in between them later on- if someone uses that point to make a complaint about the other…

Like I said before, it [how to support a survivor] depends on what they want to do, right? So we may, like Participant 1 just said, we need to see how serious it is, but…

Participant 1: If I say that somebody is looking at me weirdly, I know…I feel like…not that everyone from Africa has been raped, but definitely, somebody has already gone through that. Facilitator: Or, you know…