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Participant 1: The Mount could learn more about culture, to know how to deal with African students. Facilitator: Like how to make you, maybe, open up more? [laughter] Participant 1: Yeah, like, more comfortable. […]…

Okay, so if I should go through this, I think I’d only want to talk about with someone who is positive, with someone who is bold. Who shares the same religious beliefs as me, yeah…

I think there should be a representative for each culture at the Mount, […] so that if you are speaking to someone, the person understands where you are coming from and the person can actually…

The tricky thing is that, yes, they [my parents] would respond positively to the policy, but at the same time, they are the kind of people that don’t want much attention drawn to themselves -…

I think the two important points that are very, very neccessary when dealing with people from my culture is, they [service providers responding to sexual violence] just need to reassure people that what they are…

[In terms of] what Participant 2 just said about this [discussion about the sexual assault policy] being in class – what about some people in that class who may be going through that trauma? And…

My parents are very old-fashioned. If something like this was to happen to anyone in my family, they would want to make sure it wasn’t talked about. So, let’s say you choose to report; you…

Well for me, I will let the counsellor know- don’t play the race card with me. Don’t say, “Do you think this happened to you because you are Black?” No, if you say that to…

The words [in the policy] are very hard to understand, and it breaks down every – almost every difficult word. […]. Just like she said, it’s a bit bulky and no one is going to…

Participant 1: I feel like my dad […] would look at the policy as something slow […]. Like, if he believed that the policy is not doing anything, or the process is going too slow,…