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The use of evidentiary demands as a form of psychological or emotional violence—forcing individuals, especially trauma survivors or members of marginalized groups, to repeatedly prove their lived experiences under impossible standards. Evidence violence occurs in institutional settings (e.g., demanding medical documentation for spiritual distress), in legal systems (forcing survivors to relive trauma to “prove” it), and in online harassment campaigns (requiring screenshots, timestamps, witnesses, while moving goalposts). It exhausts and retraumatizes targets, while appearing reasonable to bystanders who don’t recognize the asymmetrical burden.
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