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Identity or Solidarity? Trans Affective Publics and Identity Frames of Violence




AuthorsVähäpassi, Valo Inari

PublisherInforma UK Limited

Publication year2024

JournalNORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Journal name in sourceNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

First page 1

Last page13

ISSN0803-8740

eISSN1502-394X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510

Web address https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477710232


Abstract

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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