Quotes from Around DePaul

Here are a some of the quotes from the interviews for this research project on DePaul and Sexual Assault and Awareness. 

All of the interviewers are DePaul students and the photos were taken across the campus.  No matter what part of the DePaul community you are from, Sexual Assault and Awareness affects you and those around you.

"Everything and anything deserves consent."

"We need to live up to what our student                         "Sex is not something you obtain from
handbook says but also constantly                                others, but a mutually pleasurable experience-
examining it to make it better."                                     students need to understand this."

"The journey of healing is riddled with pain, fear, distrust, anger, frustration, tears, fighting, loss, estrangement, abandonment, confusion, and hopelessness. And once you get through all that; battered and bruised, they you seen happiness, acceptance, order, and grace"

 

"Society has deemed the phrase "boys will be boys" as quasi-"normal,"

 making it acceptable for men to sleep around and just blame it on their hormones." 

"Did you know there has been an uprising of sexual assaults on DePauls Campus?"

"We own every aspect of our own bodies."            

"To spread more awareness of sexual assault on campus,           "Most sexual assaults that happen

we should add an extra section of sexual health into the              on campus are in dorms by people  

Common Hour programming."                                                    you know."

"Sexual Assaults are far more common than any of us want to  believe."                                                                                    "I live life under the assumption that 
                                                                                                   every person I meet could be a survivor
                                                                                                   of a completed or attempted sexual
                                                                                                    assault."

"Pre-care is the most important. With more pre-care there would be far less need for post-care."

               "By saying things like, "I rade that test" creates an atmosphere where sexual assault is a casual thing."

"Men have more sexual energy"-This is entirely FALSE. It's a cop out."

"Ignorance of sexual assault comes from jokes being make when someone says "this game is raping me." This means people are unaware of words and their connotative meaning."

 "People are uncomfortable opening up their minds to sexual assaults, that do no fir the definitions provided for them.  This is problematic because it creates spaces where survivors have to defend their experiences  feel shamed or have their experiences denied because of the languages we use."


* all interviewers asked to remain anonymous.*

-Samantha Bentson