2024 saw many historic and horrifying moments – nationally and globally. Beyond genocides, alarming climate records, and civil unrest – sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) took over a significant part of the public rhetoric in India, as well as the world. RG Kar took center stage in India, while Gisèle Pélicot’s name kept France under the global SGBV spotlight. While we are still witnessing the Indian legal system stumble and stutter through one of the most publicly tracked rape trials in recent history, we received news from France this week that 51 men along with the husband in question who was implicated in facilitating a series of rape – were convicted, albeit sentenced too little. Gisèle’s case drew a crucial focus to a very complex form of SGBV – Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also known as domestic violence or dating violence. Both identifying and seeking support against this is difficult – varying, depending on which part of the world you are in – or what your gender and sexual identity is. How does queer experience in this country complicate the question of IPV? Intimate Partner Violence is a complex and often invisible form of violence between or amongst partners who are in a sexual, romantic, and/or domestic partnership. IPV can be defined as a pattern of physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional violence in the context of coercive control by a former or current intimate partner.