Sexual violence supports for bisexual adults : qualitative interviews with sexual assault centre practitioners
department or school: Health and Social Development, Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Social Work, School of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Marie, Jess
issued: 2020-09-15T15:47:23Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Master of Social Work - MSW
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: As many sexual assault centres seek to address service gaps brought to their attention by clients, activists, advocates, and researchers, some narratives are prioritized while others remain in the margins. The main sexual violence discourse focuses on experiences had by heterosexual, white, cis women without disability. While LGBTQ2S+ tailored services are increasing within sexual assault centres, there remains a pervasive, false narrative of an LGBTQ2S+ community with universal needs and experiences. Within this universal LGBTQ2S+ community narrative, bisexuality is lumped together with concretely definable and recognizable sexual orientations like lesbian and gay. The resulting oppression of bisexual populations within the LGBTQ2S+ narrative appears in the forms of bierasure and binegativity, which in turn may exclude, invalidate, or ignore the lived experiences of bisexual individuals. With all forms of oppression sexual violence thrives when individuals are disbelieved, ignored, and excluded. The oppression of bisexuality creates increased targeting of bisexual individuals by people who engage in sexually violent behaviours. This oppression of bisexuality in society is represented through bisexuality’s existence in sexual violence narratives only as a part of the LGBTQ2S+ collective without any specific service offerings for bisexual individuals at sexual assault centres. Existing research with bisexual populations that demonstrates sexual violence is pervasive to an extent beyond other sexual orientations. This qualitative study further explores whether the available research on bisexual experiences of sexual violence is informing practice within sexual assault centres. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews an hour in length were conducted individually with nine sexual assault centre practitioners across Canada. Interviews sought to gauge the confidence and knowledge of sexual assault centre practitioners with regards to supporting bisexual adults who have exp…
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/76031
note: Sexual Violence Supports for Bisexual Adults: Qualitative Interviews with Sexual Assault Centre Practitioners by Jess Marie B.A. Psychology, University of Alberta, 2013 B.S.W., University of Victoria, 2016 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Social Work) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) September 2020 © Jess Marie, 2020 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: Sexual Violence Supports for Bisexual Adults: Qualitative Interviews with Sexual Assault Centre Practitioners submitted by Jess Marie. in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Social Work. Dr. John Graham, Faculty of Health and Social Development/UBC Okanagan Supervisor Dr. Rachelle Hole, Faculty of Health and Social Development/UBC Okanagan Supervisory Committee Member Prof. Lana Wells, Faculty of Social Work/University of Calgary Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Karen Ragoonaden, Faculty of Education/UBC Okanagan University Examiner iii Abstract As many sexual assault centres seek to address service gaps brought to their attention by clients, activists, advocates, and researchers, some narratives are prioritized while others remain in the margins. The main sexual violence discourse focuses on experiences had by heterosexual, white, cis women without disability. While LGBTQ2S+ tailored services are increasing within sexual assault centres, there remains a pervasive, false narrative of an LGBTQ2S+ community with universal needs and experiences. Within this universal LGBTQ2S+ community narrative, bisexuality is lumped together with concretely definable and recognizable sexual orientations like lesbian and gay. The resulting oppression of bisexual populations within the LGBTQ2S+ narrative appears in the forms of bierasure and binegativity, which in turn may e…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0394379
language: eng
degree discipline: Social Work
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76031