Practice Forum: Queering Practice

About the Practice Forum Series:

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service is delivering a Professional Development opportunity, a bi-monthly event called Practice Forum, to build interagency response and enhance our integrated approach to Domestic and Family Violence. Invitees will represent practitioners across our Integrated Service Network, NGO and Government services.

About this forum's topic:

The second Practice Forum of this year will be held on 8 April, from 9:00am to 12:00pm facilitated by Queer & Trans Workers Against Violence (QTWAV).

Practice Forum: Queering Practice: Working for and with LGBTIQA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy people in violence prevention and responses within a gender equality framework.

This workshop aims to create a reflective space for practitioners in the violence prevention and response work to create dialogue focused on working with and for LGBTIQA+ people and communities. Bringing together theory, practice, and lived experience, this practice forum will assist practitioners and leaders in expanding knowledge to inform practice.

This session will focus on:

• Understanding the marginalisation of LGBTIQASB+ sexualities, genders and bodies within a feminist gender equality lens.
• Considering drivers of violence, differentiating unique community experiences while identifying underlying commonalities.
• Systemic and organisational enablers and barriers to LGBTIQASB+ service use and workforce presentation in mainstream services.
• Articulating affirming practice as a core competency.

Learning outcomes:

• Recognise unique dynamics and tactics of abuse relevant to LGBTIQA+ relationships.
• Describe one’s own privilege in terms of gender, sex, and sexuality, where relevant, and how it can show up in the work.
• Identify appropriate referral pathways and points of intervention where clients can engage in support.

Details: 

Hosted: In person
Location: Toombul Shire Hall, 1141 Sandgate Road, Nundah, QLD, 4012
Cost: $30 per person, tickets through humanitix

Networking Opportunity. Catering will be provided.

What do participants say they enjoy:

“Challenging my own privilege, reflecting on what my service can do to be a safer place for LGBTQIA+ clients.”

“The facilitator’s depth of knowledge and openness about own experience.”

“Heaps of useful information and really highlighted gaps in service/workplace and what I can do to advocate/support in this space.”

Who should attend

This workshop is targeted for workers from services within the sexual violence, women’s health and wellbeing and domestic violence sector who are responding on the frontline. Please note that all attendance will be in person, there is no online version available.

About the facilitator

This interactive training workshop is presented by QTWAV, and has been developed originally by Dr Brodie Evans.

Queer and Trans Workers Against Violence is a collaborative project of LGBTIQA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy professionals working across LGBTIQASB+ community organisations and Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence services in Queensland, our members have continued to meet regularly since January 2022.

Brodie sits on various networks and committees contributing to the development of the DFV sector and advocacy for law and systems reforms, including the QLD’s DFV Peak Advisory Group. Brodie is the current Secretary of SPEAQ (Services and Practitioners for the Elimination of Abuse QLD) and co-founder ofQTWAV(Queer and Trans Workers Against Violence). They also sit on the Diverse Voices Management Committee.

Coming from academia, Brodie remains a Visiting Fellow for the QUT Centre for Justice and member of the QUT Queer Research Group. With over ten years of teaching and research, Brodie is skilled to present and consult on a broad array of issues of gender, masculinities, domestic violence, LGBTIQA+ inclusion, and activism.