A Room of One’s Own at UTAS WORDS BY Rachel Hay
In recent weeks, we’ve seen how sexual assault and harassment, as well as sexist, patriarchal and misogynist values, are rife within in the federal government. For the most part, the university campus is a place where I can feel and deal with these emotions. I talk to my friends, my classmates and my lecturers about everything that’s happening and feel supported by them. But for some women, the university campus is just another place where they experience or live under the shadow of the same gendered issues that they experience in all other areas of their life.
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Sexual Assault and Harassment Between 2016-7, 54% of students at UTAS experienced sexual harassment, and 6.5% experienced sexual assault. These experiences are something that are always present for those who have experienced them, and they don’t simply fall away when they walk into the boundaries of the university. For some students, this trauma is compounded where they have been assaulted and harassed on campus, or by people that they met at university.
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