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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…

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…

Just make sure that they don’t rush them, because, like, it may have taken them awhile to come forward, but that doesn’t mean the second they come forward that they have to do this and…

A document that is really wordy is not accessible necessarily for someone whose [unclear] English is a second language, including people whose first language is a sign language, ASL or NSL- they’re often very wordy…

I think she and I [the participant and her mother] have talked about this a lot and we both have had experiences, and every woman I know, frankly, has had an experience […]. I shouldn’t…

Participant 1: I watched how much it took out of her each time she had to explain it to someone, so that’s why I’m wondering if there is any way to make who the best…

I know sexual assault can happen at any age, but from my own experience, I feel like when – the first year of university you get caught up in the fun of party that mostly…

I do wonder how accessible it is in terms of alternative formats? I use a computerized screen reader because I am blind, and I just wonder, I have never gone to the document to see…

To be brutally honest, if one of my friends approached me with this problem, if – it would be following the stigma […] of sexual harassment – men not doing it, or not being harassed,…