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shannon harvey (they/them)
@shanharves.bsky.social
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they/them Social researcher and PhD candidate @UNSW, using queer feminist participatory methods to trash the gender binary. Disabled, so often ranting about that too 🌈♿️
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Prof Sundari Anitha did not come to play #ECDV2025 This is a searing critique of the misuse of “intersectionality” in DFV policy and research
Slide reads: An intersectional analytical lens has been crucial in understanding the ways in which precarity is constructed and exploited in TMA, and to understand the specificities of this violence at the (inter)national level as well as at the meso and micro levels; • However, intersectionality has often come to be deployed to understand difference from the 'mainstream' (where the mainstream refers to the invisible norm - white, heteronormative spaces and relationships); For eg., in Australia and in some Nordic countries, we can see this in the focus on forced marriage and HBV where framing of and responses to particular forms of VAWG reinforce the notion of difference (focusing on family and community structures) whilst eliding state-structured power asymmetries (see Vasil et al. 2025 on Australia); • Beyond the limited conceptualisations of VAWG that this approach elicits, the policy and practice solutions it yields exclude the voices and experience of the victim-survivors whilst reinforcing some axis of inequalities they face in the name of addressing others (coloniality and racialised bordering regimes as a response to VAWG).
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
shanharves.bsky.social
I’ve spent this week in hospital (the occasional reality of living with chronic illness). For the first time I’ve tried to get staff to gender me correctly and would like to share the most effective strategy I’ve come up with: getting my 7yo to decorate signs above my bed with rainbows 🌈
Handwritten signs in A4 paper above a hospital bed say “Hi, I’m Shannon. I’m trans and genderqueer. My pronouns are they/them (not she/her or he/him). e.g “I’ve done Shannon’s obs but they haven’t taken their medications yet” more: www.TransHub/pronouns. The signs are decorated with childish texta drawings of rainbows, stars and flowers
March 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM