My Body, and I Can Say No

Some lessons are easier to learn in a bright room full of your classmates than anywhere else. On Tuesday, October 20, Qiaotou welcomed the social worker Shen Pei-chin for a campus awareness session on the prevention of sexual harassment, sexual assault, the sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking — part of the campus program run by the Changhua County Government Social Affairs Department.

有些事情，在一間亮亮的教室裡、和全班同學一起學，會比在別的地方容易得多。10 月 20 日（二），橋頭國小非常榮幸邀請到沈佩秦社工蒞臨校園，針對「性騷擾、性侵害、兒少性剝削暨人口販運防治」進行深度宣導；這場講座是彰化縣政府社會處校園宣導計畫的一場。

She began with the sentence the whole morning rested on: 我的身體我會說不 — it’s my body, and I can say no. Every person has a line around them, she said, and then she put the usual excuses up on the screen where everyone could look at them: I thought it was fine. It was just a game. I was only joking. None of those decide anything. The one who decides where your line is, is you — and the same is true of the person standing next to you.

她從一句話開始，而那句話撐起了整場講座：「我的身體我會說不」。每一個人的身體外面都有一條界線。接著她把那些常聽到的說法放上投影幕，讓大家一起看清楚：「我覺得沒關係」「好玩啦」「只是開玩笑」——這些都不能決定任何事。能決定你的界線在哪裡的人，只有你自己；而你旁邊那個同學，也是一樣。

Then the screen changed to something every child in the room already spends time in: online. A stranger who is warm and generous in a chat window may be none of the things they say they are, and a photo, once sent, stops being yours. She walked through how these approaches usually start, and what the law actually says about them — with real cases, explained plainly, so that nobody had to guess.

接著畫面換成了每個孩子都很熟悉的地方：網路。聊天視窗裡那個很熱情、很大方的人，不一定是他說的那個人；而照片一旦傳出去，就不再是你的了。講師一步一步說明這些接近方式通常是怎麼開始的，以及法律到底怎麼規定——用真實案例、用聽得懂的話說清楚，不必讓任何人自己去猜。

The last part was the most important, and it was also the shortest: if something happens, say it out loud to someone. A class teacher, a parent, anyone at school you trust — or the 113 protection helpline, printed right there on the cloth across the front of the stage. Principal Chen Chun-wen closed the session on the line that was still up on the screen: respect is not just something you say. Boundaries belong to everyone. Saying no to what is wrong is not rudeness — it is courage, and it is allowed.

最後一段最重要，也最短：如果發生了什麼事，一定要說出來。可以告訴班級導師、告訴家人、告訴學校裡任何一位你信任的大人，也可以打舞台前桌布上就印著的113 保護專線。陳俊文校長以投影幕上還留著的那句話作結：【尊重】不是說說而已！界線是每個人都有的。對不對的事情說「不」，不是沒禮貌——那叫勇敢，而且你可以這麼做。

讓我們一起攜手打造安全、友善的校園環境，尊重彼此界線，勇敢對不公與不法說「不」！💪