BONUS: What Happens When the Archive Doesn’t Include You?

In this bonus segment, Tamanda and Aiwan dig deeper into the existing and emerging research around LGBTQ+ domestic violence.

They reflect on the stories we don’t hear, the data that doesn’t exist or is too easily overlooked, and the ways coercive control shows up in queer relationships, from misgendering and outing to body shaming and withholding gender-affirming care.

Tamanda shares insights from Galop’s research and from scholars working to fill the gaps in how LGBTQ+ domestic abuse is understood. She references Dr James Rowlands and the CRiVA team at Durham University on coercive control in queer relationships, and Dr Roxanne Khan’s work on honour-based abuse in South Asian LGBTQ+ communities, showing how identity can become a weapon, and why support systems still fail so many.

Together, they dig into the existing evidence to ask:

• Why are shelters and services still built around outdated gender scripts?
• What happens when abusers weaponise race, queerness or gender identity?

And how do we learn the difference between healthy conflict and coercive control, if no one teaches us?

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