Dejai&Tyra_DiverseSources

Emily Bogue, Senior, Communication Studies

"Sexual assaults, to me, is a difficult thing to define, Because it takes it can take so many different forms, and it can look like so many different things, A it is either one or a series of unwanted sexual advances that are designed to that, or rather that function to empower and power and individual over and over another or others without their consent."

 "I don't think I think one Texas State doesn't do a good enough job of a like, even educating people as to what Sexual assault is, despite the fact that they clearly like want people to think they do."

"And I think that Texas State doesn't have resources for student groups and student organizations to deal with abusers in their midst. It does not provide student workers and student organizations and student groups or even like dorms, tools for dealing with abuse limits, not just sexual abusers, although certainly that, but abusers of all stripes. If if you are in a student organization forever, for example, and you know that there is an abuser in your midst, you sort of had to sort it out on your own."

"I think one Texas state needs to be louder and provide more resources to the timeline coordinators. I think that far too many people on this campus don't know who the timeline coordinators are or what they do. Or Yeah, yeah, or, or, or how to reach out to them if they're needed. So I think one more resource, more resources, more out more outreach for them."

"There needs to be training and there needs to be some sort of system to educate these people as to how to respond to seriously and appropriately to people coming to them and saying, Hey, we can't keep these spaces safe."

 Speaking as a transgender woman there, and the narratives of abuse, transgender women or transgender people in general, but specifically transgender women are more likely than even their gender counterparts to be the victims of abuse and sexual violence.

"We need to have conversations, both in our community and and and outside of it as to how do we talk about people who are transgender? Who are those who are abusers? Because in our community, there's a sense, there's oftentimes a sense of like, Oh, well, don't talk about it. Because like this, because like, since people already view us as violent and dangerous, dangerous, so. So if we talk about this, about this person as an abuser, then we're proving them right, or we're giving them ammo, and we have to just like not do anything about this, which is fucked."

Rachel Mardell, 28 lecturers in the English Dept.

"Any kind of unwanted action that causes harm, whether that be physical or mental."

"I experienced it growing up and in the military. "

"what we see in media, like, just joking about sexual assault, like little jokey jokes, right, that reflects that our culture still thinks that's funny, right? It hasn't taken it seriously. There really needs to be not just a shift on the media side, but public perception to where that kind of stuff wont be popular. So I can I get for whatever the case is"

"I do think that n like this push for positivity, and reflecting the queer community, or LGBT, plus community as, like this great, like, wholesome like unity, which I mean, I definitely feel that as a member of the community, but also like, there is definitely an undercurrent of sexual assault that occurs in the community that needs to be better addressed. I have a lot of friends that were assaulted."

Kenua Webster, 21, Junior Political Science

"When someone forces are coerced someone else into performing sexual acts is even just trying to make them do things that they don't want to do? It doesn't have to be sometimes sexual, or sometimes it could be just power."

"I thought it was gonna be funny. He started giving us alcohol. But then he started giving us too much alcohol. You don't really know, people, but you think they are your best friend. Right? So basically, like, she wasn't watching, which I know, I need to watch myself. But no one was kind of like watching me. when I woke up the next where I do, I remembered it, but not all the details of what happened."

"Educating people, first of all, educating people, especially making sure people know what happened. And I feel like the "me too" movement should really come out. And actually, it should encompass more than just women, it should also incompetence, man, people who identify as non binary people who identify and the gender spectrum, and there should be more people will come out, you know, I should probably tell my story to people much more because then somebody else have a story, and then actually help something out."

"They should do more of telling people that, hey, this happened. And this who the person that it was done to. if it happened, someone else but you were here, or someone knows our age should be like the sexual offenders, it should actually be public property, not private."