Pride in Respect Podcast

In the final episode of season one of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Deb and Alicia Gibbs for a powerful conversation about breaking the silence around family, domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence in LGBTIQA+ communities. Deb is an FDV lived experience advocate and a proud queer person of colour. She shares reflections on intimate partner violence, the d...

In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Julia and Tori Cooke for a powerful conversation about post-separation abuse and the ways coercive control can continue after a relationship has ended. Julia, a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, shares her lived experience of long-term coercive control, family violence and the ongoing impacts of abuse after separat...

In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Marcus Roberts and Dani Wright-Toussaint for a thoughtful conversation about LGBTIQA+ young people’s experiences of family violence, intimate partner violence, growing up, coming out and learning what safe relationships can look like. Marcus is the Principal Counsellor in WAAC’s Freedom Counselling Program, support...

Pride in Respect Podcast - Episode 3: Power, Gender and Control In this episode of the Pride and Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Paulie and Starlady for a powerful conversation about gender, power and control in the context of family, domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence experienced by trans and gender diverse people. Starlady, a queer trans woman, feminine person and...

Pride in Respect Podcast - Episode 2: Older LGBTIA+: Silence, Survival & Structural Isolation A quick note on terminology: For this episode, we use the term LGBTIA+ when referring to older community members (generally 50+). This reflects the language many people in this cohort are most familiar and comfortable with, particularly given that terms like “queer” have historically been used as slur...

Episode 1: Disrupting Invisibility, why LGBTIQA+ violence goes unrecognised In the first episode of the Pride in Respect podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Kai Noonan, Director of Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Prevention at LGBTIQA+ Health Australia, and Bree, a survivor-advocate who shares her lived experience of domestic and intimate partner violence. Together, they explore how f...