Perspectives on responses to sexual assault

[I think it is important for the person who supports a survivor to be] trustworthy and that the person understands and values the story that I’m gonna share with them, that something will be done…

I think the person that’s gonna help someone that has suffered sexual assault has got to be trustworthy and they have to be compassionate, like, someone who puts themselves in other people’s shoes, that are…

They [survivors] don’t wanna hear, “Oh, you should have done this,” or “What were you wearing?”or “What were you doing? Were you drinking? Were you drunk?” Because that is just judging the person and that…

I would advise them [university staff who work with SV/SA policies] to be more considerate of other cultures and their traditions. Like, some things that happen here, we may not think that it’s inappropriate, but…

I think something that I would advise is to make the policy more reachable, the whole topic itself, because it’s not the same- for example, imagine that you are in a situation and you are…

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…