Disruptive Bodies: Interrogating the Gender Binary in Family Violence Policy and Practice

Date

Monday 15 July 2024

Time

3-4pm (1-2pm AEST)

Location

Online

Organised by

MAEVe

Cost

Free

In this MAEVe webinar, Shannon Harvey will share on their research exploring the boundaries of “gender-based violence” as a conceptual frame, and which uses critical Participatory Action Research to bring together practitioners and people with lived experience to better understand and respond to non-binary people’s experiences of domestic and family violence (DFV).

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Shannon's presentation will invite discussion on what role participatory methods might play in enabling productive engagement with complex policy and practice issues in the violence against women and their children field.

Despite growing evidence on queer people’s experiences of DFV, there has been very little research focused explicitly on the experiences of people of non-binary genders. Further, DFV services are commonly segregated by binary gender, meaning most practitioners are not knowingly providing services to non-binary people. Shannon will summarise existing evidence on non-binary people’s experiences of DFV and describe how their study is providing relational frameworks for service providers and people with lived experience to collaboratively interrogate the role of gender in DFV responses and facilitate greater inclusion.

Presenter Information:

Shannon Harvey (They/Them) is a doctoral candidate at UNSW Sydney and Director, Impact Data & Evaluation at The Benevolent Society. They have held applied research and advocacy roles in community organisations for nearly 20 years, focused largely on gender-based violence, homelessness and mental health. Their PhD research uses participatory methods to interrogate the gender binary in responses to domestic and family violence.

This webinar will be recorded and will be available at MAEVe Seminar Videos.