ACTION NOT FRUIT - Reform Respect.Now.Always

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) claims to support students who are survivors of sexual assault. Yet, in 2021, Respect.Now.Always and university management continuously ignored student demands. When Women's Collective met with RNA they asked them why consent materials were not translated in other languages and were met with the responses that: "International students come to Australia to learn English," and "We already have green tea and black sesame ice cream." A consent campaign that concerns itself with puns and fun design over the response of the survivors it is aiming to protect is a performance not a campaign.

I support the Women's Collective’s demands, that Respect.Now.Always.:
- immediately stops their fruit-centric
messaging that trivialises sexual violence
- translates consent materials for
international students
- provides CONSISTENT and
COMPREHENSIVE consent training
- properly consults students (specifically the student survivors, the Women's Collective and the Women's Officer)
- makes support systems for survivors more well-known and accessible
- provides intersectional sex education

and that UTS:
-releases the UTS results of the NSSS
- allocates more funding to counselling and the sexual harassment hotline