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 difficulty of speaking out, and how shame, racism, cultural expectations, religion, internalised homophobia and fear of coming out can create layers of silence and isolation.

Alicia Gibbs is a queer woman and Manager of Preventing Violence Together at the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing. She brings insight into primary prevention, gender-based violence & stereotypes, heteronormativity and cisnormativity, and how services, systems a ...