Deep dive: Intersectionalities within LGBTIQA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy gendered violence

We can't afford to start from scratch: Transformative recordings from the contemporary archive

The participation of LGBTIQA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy communities within feminist and anti-violence movements is not a new development. However, archives are not always available to demonstrate and model the kinds of conversations, language and framing needed to represent LGBTIQASB+ communities within gendered violence and gender equality movements. This series of post presents a curation of key snapshots from an archive of recorded events that are now available online, with additional research and academic literature related to the topic. We present these in the hopes that they may assist workers, organisations and leaders in reflecting and directing greater inclusion, solidarity and partnerships between LGBTIQASB+, women's and broader anti-violence and gender equality organisations in our shared work together.

2026

• How does an intersectional approach help make sense of responding to resistance and backlash, and building inclusion? (end 53:48)

• situating connection between transphobia, racism and colonisation (end 56:41)

• Looking ahead to imagine meaningful Pacifika SOGIESC inclusion and progress (1:25:36)

• 42 mins Panel discussion - Living at the Intersections 

2025

• Multicultural Women's Health work capacity building work in this space (End 49:47)

• Further application of the guide for Multicultural Women's Health (End:1:04:36)

• Intersectionality and relevance to workplace sexual harassment (End 30:19)

• Q&A: Workplace Sexual Harassment Experiences of young migrant, and young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQ young people (end 1:06:49)

• Perspectives from LGBTIQA forcibly displaced people (end 35:21)

• Neurodivergence, diverse sexuality and consent norms

• Potential constraints of norms and scripts for neurodivergent people

• Beyond neurotypical norms: neurodivergence and queer possibility

2024

• Complexity in experiences of violence & intersectionality (end 26:50)

• Understanding and interrogating cultural safety for trans communities (end 1:08:23)

2022

• Risk of violence and lethality faced by trans women who are sex workers or migrants, and barriers to help-seeking due to expectations of discrimination

• Need for inclusive frameworks from services, including sex work stigma

• Steps services could take to be more accessible to trans women of colour

•  Need for resources and campaigns addressing trans women of colour’s experiences

• SOGIESC Refugee & asylum seeker pathways (end 12:10) 4 mins

• SOGIESC grounds for protection claims  (end 15:20)

• Lived experience – Sadat’s story (end 51:26)

• The importance of LGBTIQASB+ community controlled orgs within DFSV systems, including intersectionalities (end 1:24:51) 

2021

• Engaging in nuanced conceptual conversations, impact of gendered drivers on CALD & racially diverse communities (end: 42:49)

2020

• Chantelle Martin - on importance of sex work decriminalisation for sexual violence prevention for trans women of colour & violence experienced from police (end: 29:55)

• Chantelle on experiences of sexual violence for trans women of colour & sex workers, avoidance of formal reporting & relationship with sexual health clinics (end 41:56)

Full recordings

• Webinar - Turning principles into practice: Strengthening SOGIESC inclusion in the Pacific

• Women Deliver 2026 panel: The realities of bodily control (end 43:26, 40 mins)

• Women Deliver 2026 panel: Reclaiming Autonomy - Action & Solidarity (end 1:35:17, 40 mins)

• Panel discussion - Living at the Intersections (Sapphire IWD event) (42 mins)

• Neuroqueering consent: Negotiating consent at the intersection of Autism, Neurodivergence and Sexuality

• #SpeakingOut@Work: Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace and workplace training 

• Safe + Equal: Transfemme launch - supporting trans women of colour to access specialist family violence services webinar 

• Many Coloured Sky: Queer refugee and asylum seekers peer team 

• Can there be a feminist politics of drinking? Alcohol harms and home drinking experiments

• 'Uninhibited Play': the political and pragmatic dimensions of intoxication within queer cultures

• Men In Place: (Trans)Masculinities, Race, and Space 

• ANROWS: responding to sexual violence among trans women of colour in Australia 

• ARCSHS Nov seminar - A/Prof Sandy O'Sullivan - The colonial project of gender

• ARCSHS Oct seminar - Dr Akane Kanai - Intersectionality in digital feminist knowledge cultures

Research & Academic literature

2026

• LGBTQ+ Homelessness and Sexual Violence 

• Primary prevention of sexual violence in First Nations LGBTIQA+SB Communities - A literature review

• Our Voices, Our Ways - Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence in First Nations LGBTIQA+SB Communities, A discussion paper in response to the national literature review

2025

• Exploring experiences of talk therapies among gay and bisexual men seeking to reduce or abstain from using crystal methamphetamine in the context of chemsex

• Drinking, risk, and care: a narcofeminist analysis of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women’s alcohol consumption and safety practices in Australia

• “Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics

• The presence and absence of gender and intersectionality in the 2023 NDIS review: a content analysis

• National LGBTIQA+ Prevention of Sexual Violence Pilot Projects final report

• Implementation and formative evaluation of a peer-led chemsex intervention targeting sexualised crystal methamphetamine and GHB use: the M3THOD study

• Delineating the Distribution and Impact of Homelessness Among a Large Sample of LGBTQ + People in Australia

• Que(e)ry-ing the nexus of vulnerabilities: the sensitive nature of research into LGBTQ+ and CALD survivor experiences of intimate partner violence

2024

• Being both: the intersectional experiences of being an LGBTQ+ victim-survivor of sexual violence with disability

• Our Community is our Strength: First Nations LGBTQSB+ experiences of sexual violence and reporting

• #SpeakingOut@Work: Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace and workplace training 

2023

• Indigenous LGBTIQSB + People’s Experiences of Family Violence in Australia

• Factors associated with experiences of abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) adults with disability in Australia

• Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia

2022

• La Trobe University submission to the Disability Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

• Information-seeking behaviours in Australian sexual minority men engaged in chemsex

• Researching Sexual Violence with Trans Women of Color in Australia

2021

• ‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures

• Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex

2020

• Crossing the line: Lived experience of sexual violence among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia.

• Destabilising the ‘problem’ of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use

Further reading & Resources

• Sexual Violence Pilot Project | 2Spirits & Restorative Yarns

• Pacific Women Lead - Many petals, one whole bloom: Strengthening SOGIESC inclusion in the Pacific

• Queer Migrant Project: Manual for liberatory conscious practice for Queer Migrants within the context of DFV in QLD

• Crossing the Line: Practitioner Guidelines for Responding to sexual violence against trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds