Perspectives on survivor speech

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…

I think that might be one of the reasons why [victim/survivors don’t come forward] and well, someone who goes through that, I feel like the last thing they want to do is to have to…

Are there any reviews from someone that has used this policy so we can hear their experience? Because it is always good to know from another persons experience.

Something I think also happens in the Latin community is that sometimes we can be a little bit too nosy, like, we want to know what happened just for our sake, but we should be,…

In South East Asia, people – especially the young people – they are not really comfortable reporting such thing call[ed] sexual violence, because they fear of losing face or being disclosing their confidentiality. [This is…

Southern Asian people don’t use much service on the campus because, as I said in the beginning, due to the cultural difference, so we are afraid of being losing face or being retaliated [against], right?

My best advice [for a survivor from my community] would be to go with someone you are familiar with, maybe your relatives, someone you can trust. […] Because Asian people would be really, really shy…

Typically, well, men, the male demographic, are the respondents more often than [unclear]. Sexual harassment reports well – sexual harassment experienced by the male demographic usually doesn’t get reported or anything like that. [unclear] is…

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,…

It’s extremely difficult, in a sense of the male approaching somebody and admitting that they have been sexually assaulted. There’s numerous anecdotal cases from just Western society [unclear] where a – a survivor of sexual…