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My advice for them [university staff who work with SV/SA policies] would be to really do their research about our culture, that is, from Latin America, so they won’t make accusations or assumptions and stereotypes,…

When considering like the basic wording of the policy, [it is important] to make sure that it is not, um, reflecting a ciscentric or a heterocentric um [pause] way of communicating resources to the […]…

Like the other girl said, it needs to be shared; and it needs to reach more people to prevent further violence, to better support survivors, and to heal and recover. It is nice that it…

My advice regarding security staff is that they should be more helpful. In my experience, there’s one time I went with them for a problem that I had on campus, and at the beginning they…

Yeah, along the same line as what they were saying, it is very sensitive and it is – it might – like, I can’t say for certain, but I would say due to how heavy…

You say all these things: “It will be investigated”, “We will report to you, etc.,” but within what timeframe? Otherwise, it can drag on for six months. I’ve heard numerous stories about people graduating and…

A lot of the time when people get sexually assaulted, not most of the time, but it does happen, they were under the influence of the substance. So the person that assaulted them was -…

Participant 1: [Laughs] The sexual violence response team creates the policy, and the sexual violence response team also happens to be the people that enforce the policy. Um, so, it’s bad- you can’t write the…

For example, if I was at a party or something and I was touched inappropriately. I wasn’t groped or any […] more severe examples, but it’s just something little that I was uncomfortable with that…

I wouldn’t shove it in their face like “you NEED to do something,” but on my own time, I would look up what they can do and share something very welcoming like counselling. Or, “Hey,…