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From my point of view, the survivor is not the problem. The problem is from the respondent; it’s not from the survivor. If you want to stop the sexual assault, we have to look at…

Facilitator: How ‘bout, like, everybody gives me one characteristic or quality […] of a potential support person. What would that look like? Participant 1: Caring? Facilitator: Caring, why would it be important um, to have…

Yeah, so, for me, I think it’s different because I had a culture shock when I moved here. Because, back home, […] our culture is very touchy and very, […] I don’t know how to…

My parents let me come here because, to be honest, Canada is one of the safest places, most worth[while] places to live for a reason. There is a reason for it; and one of the…

You can go through the SANE program, and they will not go to the police right away. You have up to six months or maybe longer where they will store that evidence to give you…

Participant 1: I don’t know if anywhere sexual education was different, but mine consisted of “Here’s a condom; don’t get people pregnant; you’ll get diseases; and your body is changing.” There was nothing about consent,…

You have to dig through a bunch of irrelevant pages on the Saint Mary’s website to actually find the sexual violence policy. Um, and then that is basically it; there are no supporting documents around…

I’d like to know why it [the policy] doesn’t touch on false allegations or whatever. As we mentioned previously, our demographic more typically is um, being a respondent role. So, as a personal fear, I’m…

I don’t think that there’s enough visibility for people who can be talked to. Like, I know […] that you were discussing the people that could be spoken to, […] but as somebody who’s been…

Participant 1: There are a lot of different responses to trauma. Participant 2: The one thing I wish more people would have said to me is, “you don’t even need to answer me- I’m just…