How is anti-trans and anti-queer violence linked to gender-based violence and racial violence? What role does anti-queer and anti-trans violence play in the creation and maintenance of the settler state?
How do trans of color lives and deaths come to stand in not for their particular moments, but a more generalized notion of social violence? In that way, do their narratives service larger, homogenizing and thus obviating forces in neoliberalism, gentrification, and LGBTQI community activism?”
From the Always Already Podcast
Readings:
- Sarah Lamble, “Retelling Racialized Violence, Remaking White Innocence: The Politics of Interlocking Oppressions in Transgender Day of Remembrance.” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 5.1: 24–42.
- C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn, “Trans Necropolitics- A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and Trans of Color Afterlife.”
- Film: Out in the Night (dir. Blair Dorosh-Walther, 2014)
- Strochlic, Nina. “‘Out in the Night’ and the Redemption of the ‘Killer Lesbian Gang’.” The Daily Beast, June 21, 2014.
- Hardy, Ernest. “NJ 4 Doc Out in the Night Is Infuriating and Depressing in Equal Measure.” Village Voice, June 18, 2014.
For additional reading, see:
- Film: Major!
- Law Enforcement Violence against Women of Color & Trans People of Color. An Organizer’s Resource & Tool Kit. By Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. Boston: Beacon Press. 2011.
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition. Eds. Eric A. Stanley; Nat Smith. AK Press, 2015.
Note: Featured Photo from CNN, “At least 22 transgender people have been killed this year. But numbers don’t tell the full story” (2019)