Pride in Respect Podcast
Welcome to the Pride in Respect podcast series.
Featuring victim-survivors and sector specialists, each episode brings forward powerful LGBTIQA+ voices to challenge stigma, expose realities, provide insights, and inspire a safer, more informed community.
Join us as we break the silence and create space for truth, healing, and change.
Recent Episodes
Episode 04: Queer Young People, Family Violence and Healthy Relationships
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.
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Episode 03: Gender, Power and Control – Trans and Gender Diverse Experiences of Family Violence
In this episode of the Pride in 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.
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Episode 02: Older LGBTIA+: Silence, Survival & Structural Isolation
In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia speaks with Kedy Krystal and Paul about the experiences of older LGBTIA+ people and the ways family, domestic, sexual and intimate partner violence can show up across a lifetime. Together, they explore how criminalisation, homophobia, transphobia, religious rejection, stigma, shame and service discrimination have shaped the lives of older LGBTIA+ people – and how these experiences can create barriers to safety, support and c…
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Episode 01: 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 LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, and Bree, a survivor-advocate who shares her lived experience of domestic and intimate partner violence. This is a powerful and compassionate opening episode about breaking the silence, challenging stereotypes, and making sure LGBTIQA+ people experiencing violence are seen, heard and supported.
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Meet your host: Dr Jack Farrugia
Dr Jack Farrugia (he/him) is a researcher and passionate equity and inclusion advocate for marginalised communities. His current research focuses on improving the mental health and wellbeing of marginalised young people in regional Western Australia. Jack has also led and contributed to major LGBTIQA+ community research projects, including work to strengthen mental health and alcohol and other drug services delivered by LGBTIQA+ community‑controlled organisations (Optimise+), and to improve service responses to intimate partner violence among LGBTIQA+ people (Safer Options).
His dedication to this work is informed by lived experience, including with intimate partner violence and growing up with mental health challenges as an LGBTIQA+ young person in regional Australia. Through these experiences, Jack has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of stigma and discrimination, and is driven to use his experience and research to make a meaningful difference.
“The Pride in Respect campaign will ignite the conversation that we need to have.”
— Kedy Kristal, Executive Officer, GRAI.
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