Study principals wondered: When LGBTQ+ women partner or make family with LGBTQ+ women, how do the burdens of misogyny, racism, ableism and other forms of discrimination add up in our lives? How do they impact our health specifically? What strategies best support us in building the lives we want, regardless? How and under what circumstances are we thriving?

We asked respondents to identify themselves on their own terms, leaving us with the ability to examine the data via multidimensional constructions of race, class, gender, age and sexuality.  Accordingly, we are able to offer a nuanced view of the health disparities we uncovered, and the cumulative impacts of multi-layered discrimination and abuse in the lives of these respondents.