“New freedoms, along with lack of understanding of sexual consent, which most of us aren’t taught about in schools or at home, makes universities a hotbed for sexual violence. Lack of action and accountability from institutions has long kept it that way.”
There's far more to consent than"no means no" — not that you'd know it from what we're taught in sex ed. Canada's curricula has long glossed over this crucial part of every sexual encounter. It's time we say yes to talking about consent, in all its forms.Trigger warning: This story contains sensitive content regarding sexual assault.
“Welcome to campus! Here’s all the places to avoid at night!” This was one of the first things I learned when I moved onto the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus in 2016, cautions whispered in between official student orientation stops.At the time, I didn’t question it — just as I didn’t question why my residence advisor insisted I save the phone number for the service that connected me with student volunteers in case I needed someone to escort me across campus at night.
Worse, I didn’t question my belief that if I was careful enough, I could avoid it. The illusion didn’t last long. Before classes started, one of my friends was sexually assaulted in her dorm room by another student. Even though that case, like so many others, never made headlines, I’ve been thinking about it a lot in light of the morein London, ON, during orientation week this fall, as reported on social media.
Since September, the focus has been on making going “back to school” safe during COVID, as the majority of post-secondaries returned to in-person lectures for the first time since March 2020. But student safety is about more than masks and vaccination mandates. The assaults at Western, followed by
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