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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…

Participant 1: When it comes to further education, let’s say we are in a situation where a student was accused of sexually assaulting someone. They went through all the processes and ended up getting expelled-…

I think the most important thing to think about before you speak to someone who has been recently assaulted is to avoid having a judgmental or non-believing attitude. […] I think for them [the survivor]…

[Since] 1990, the entire world has changed a our policy has not. Comparing it to even to other schools, like, Dalhousie and St. FX, like, their policies are quite expansive and cover a lot of…

When a student discloses or reports, there needs to be something there that people can point to, or students can say, “on the website is… ” but in particular, staff or faculty can say, “here…

Some people, when this happens to them, they come forward with denial. Like, they try to fix the situation ‌in their mind, like they don’t want to believe it happened. Or they’ll run through the…

It’s really frustrating as a student, because, it feels like they’ve, they put a brick wall between us and that policy. It feels like they’re trying to put every single barrier that they possibly can…

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…