A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Identity or Solidarity? Trans Affective Publics and Identity Frames of Violence
Authors: Vähäpassi, Valo Inari
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Publication year: 2024
Journal: NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Journal name in source: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
First page : 1
Last page: 13
ISSN: 0803-8740
eISSN: 1502-394X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477710232
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a key political day of action for the trans movement, both in the USA where it was invented, and elsewhere. I attend to the frames used about violence circulating in—and intensifying—what I call trans affective publics at and around Transgender Day of Remembrance by people and organizations in a “glocal” manner. I address both looser and stable frames of violence around Transgender Day of Remembrance, the most important of which are what I call identity frames of violence. I argue that these identity frames attach transness with vulnerability to violence in a global and unifying way, bypassing intersectional reasons behind the violence, and that frames of violence solidify through circulation. I address the adaptation of these frames in Europe and Finland, as well as alternative rhetoric about the violence, which shakes these solidified frames. I propose that this alternative framing appeals to a reflective form of solidarity, inviting coalition politics between trans and sex workers movements as well as (other) feminists and a re-thinking of both the causes of violence and the “we” to which one is invited to feel responsibility to act in solidarity, in opposing exclusions and oppression.
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