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If my friend disclosed to me, I think I would want to know whether she felt safe at that moment. I’d ask what she needed from me, how I could help in terms of talking,…

Participant 1: You would have to listen, and from my personal experience, I’ve always found support in my peers. So, talking to someone who has either experienced sexual assault or somebody trained in it and…

You can feel so ashamed. Like, “I just want to forget about it,” [in a whisper] “I don’t ever want to think about it again,” “I don’t want to have to deal with it,” and…

I remember reading this thing in one of my classes, and I think it was like one in four [university students are sexually assaulted], and that seems like a crazy number and a lot of…

Participant 1: I feel like if someone were to say that “sexual assault isn’t my problem”… I feel like its everyone’s problem because it can happen to anyone. And just because I’m a Sociology student…

Participant 1: I haven’t seen it [the policy] or heard about it since I’ve been here, but I guess I didn’t look for it […] it didn’t feel readily available. Participant 2: Same, I haven’t…

Just typing it into a search engine or going to the Mount website might feel overwhelming. It would be nice to have, like, I’m always a fan of posters that feel more like I’m in…

I was also going to add that there are … because I’m also a victim of it, sometimes you don’t even want to identify yourself as that. So, when there are trickier situations, like you…

I wrote a lot of side notes [pointing to her draft of the policy], and it was along the lines of […] how is a person going to get support? Who is a person going…

Participant 1: I think that the people reading this [gesturing to the policy] are most likely people who have been assaulted- […] I feel like it needs to be really front-loaded like, “if you’ve been…