The Sexual Violence Research Podcast24 Jun 2025

S4E5 GBV and LGBTQ+ Communities: Addressing the Research Gap

This week we turn our attention to gender-based violence and LGBTQ+ communities. GBV within LGBTQ+ communities is a serious yet under-researched issue. In many global and humanitarian settings, the experiences of queer and trans people are frequently ignored or erased and much of the existing research tends to focus on heteronormative, high income country perspectives. Where targeted research does exist on the LGBTQ+ community, the data is often not disaggregated which means we’re missing critical information.

In this episode we are joined by Dr Jessica Ison, Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University and Deputy Director at the Reducing Gender-Based Violence Research Group, and Dr Charbel Maydaa, Founder and Director of MOSAIC, to discuss why addressing these gaps in research is essential to ensuring that we build responses that are equitable, accurate, and truly protective for all communities.

Your host is: Ayesha Mago, Global Advocacy Director, Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI)

This episode’s guests are:

Dr Jessica Ison, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Rural Health School & Deputy Director, Reducing Gender-Based Violence Research Group
Charbel Maydaa, Founder & Director, MOSAIC

🎧 Listen to learn:

➡︎ How gaps in GBV research can lead to LGBTQ+ communities being misrepresented as ‘risky’ or ‘deviant’

➡︎ How politics, war and social exclusion are affecting lesbian and trans women in places like Turkey and Lebanon

➡︎ How traditional family values and deep-rooted sexism are preventing LGBTQ+ communities from accessing the services they need

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