Perspectives on responses to sexual assault
My advice for them [university staff who work with SV/SA policies] would be to really do their research about our culture, that is, from Latin America, so they won’t make accusations or assumptions and stereotypes,…
[While ensuring the policy reads as trans-inclusive], you’d also have to make sure to not go overly into […] describing things and making it hard to read at the same time. […] Like, maybe you…
My advice regarding security staff is that they should be more helpful. In my experience, there’s one time I went with them for a problem that I had on campus, and at the beginning they…
Maybe just kind of double-checking […] people’s preferred pronouns when they’re talking […] one-on-one […]. So, if they’re not really out yet, and you’re just talking one-on-one […], you wanna use they/them pronouns um, but…
[If a friend disclosed to me], before I [talk] to the victim, the survivor, I would ask myself if the survivor would like to talk to me, or are they comfortable to talk about it…
What if there were, like, […] a main person that you would […] disclose to or report to, but also some other people who were, like, designated options. So, like, say the report – or…
If I’m a survivor I need to have a very trustworthy person who can help me with the situation I’m facing. Like, I trust them [with] my situation; they are not having any doubt about…
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…
People that have the problem with sexual assault, that’s a very sensitive problem and they need an advisor uhh that to listen to their story and understand them and sympathize with them.
I feel […] like trans people might have different experiences […] with sexual assault than a cis person might. Um, so, like, having someone [provide support] that would be knowledgeable or experienced abou the trans…