Amy Obradovic (she/her) is a mixed-race (white-passing), vegetarian Clinical Psychologist in training, with particular professional interests in advocacy, trauma and widening access to psychology professions.
Although she has always been keen to take a firm position on matters of social justice, she first became interested in trans rights while studying Queer Theory at King’s College London (2005 and 2010) and becoming interested in the writing of Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Julia Serano. Her undergraduate and master’s dissertations addressed social constructions of gender on the Shakespearian stage, and in the literary works of Jean Rhys, respectively.
In more recent years Amy has become interested in the parallels between her own sense of racial “othered-ness”/”inbetweenness” and how trans communities have historically and presently occupied a neither/nor space in the cultural imagination.
Her current research on help-seeking amongst trans surviviors of sexual violence builds on preliminary suggestions that trans people are disproportionately vulnerable to sexual violence, and yet significantly less-likely to seek support through mainstream or specialist healthcare and support services. Amy’s research aims to better understand why this is, and hopes to work alongside participants to improve levels of support and care for trans survivors within both NHS and third sector service provisions. The research will contribute to one of the first guidelines for informing a trans-inclusive model of survivor healthcare.
Help-seeking among trans survivors of sexual violence: Towards a more inclusive framework of support. 