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Status of Women committee  My biggest priority would be to co-design it with the victims, because a really well-intentioned program has turned out to be quite harmful. To say that we're going to bring in cops and try to scare kids by telling them that it's violent.... The minute the cops leave, the kids laugh at them.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  Actually, I have a really strong support network. I have a partner who's very passionate about this space, so I feel pretty good. Now Twitter is actually allowing you to report abusive behaviours when you're not the person who is being abused, and that's been a wonderful step in the right direction.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  I was just going to say that I think this comes down to victim blaming, and we have to stop that. Even when you're talking about them participating and sending nudes, that right there is victim blaming, because you don't know what's going on what's causing the pressure to do it.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  Instead of trying to.... I think some of this asking the youths to just give up their phone or to stay off the Internet comes from wanting to protect them, but I think part of this is about how they're going to receive these messages, so sit down with them and show them that these messages aren't correct.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  One of the things that I hope for would be to have the formalized online peer support and online counselling offered more regularly in the hours that this happens to young people. You could be waking up in the middle of the night to 40 tweets telling you that you're ugly and that you should die.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  I would just encourage you to also think of the Internet as a community. While in some communities there are those being harassed face to face, by people who know them, there have also been large harassment campaigns where they actually don't know the women and have never met them.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  I think it is really looking at what the laws look like in this space for this new age. The things that were said to me, if someone had said them in person, the cops would not think twice about arresting him. Somehow, putting it on an online space made them perceive it as less real, but the fear was real for me.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  I think this is one of those cases where a lot of the guys who will kind of get into the groupthink that it's hilarious to harass these women need to be connected, face to face, I think, with some of the women who've been victims of these things in order to see the real harm they're causing.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo

Status of Women committee  I am a youth mental health advocate, and I try to make my change in mental health through the tech system. I want to tell you my story. As a young kid, after I tried to take my own life, I received the majority of my support online. I didn't have trusted adults in my community who I felt I could talk to.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Alicia Raimundo