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




Vähäpassi, Valo Inari

PublisherInforma UK Limited

2024

 NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

1

13

0803-8740

1502-394X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510

https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2418510

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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