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Atmospheres of Violence
Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
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Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.
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9781478021520Subtopic
LGBT Studies
CHAPTER
1
NEAR
LIFE
OVERKILL
AND
ONTOLOGICAL
CAPTURE
A
feeling
of
inferiority?
No,
a
feeling
of
nonexistence.
—
Frantz
Fanon
What
if
it
feels
good
to
kill
or
mutilate
homos?
—
Anonymous
“
Y
our
whole
life
you
think
you’re
a
het-
erosexual.
Then
you
get
pleasure
from
a
homosexual.
It
disgusted
me,”
1
Jose
Merel,
one
of
Gwen
Araujo’s
murderers,
proclaimed
during
his
trial.
While
at
a
party,
Araujo,
a seventeen-year-old
Latina
trans
woman,
was
confronted
by
Merel
and
three
other
men,
Michael
Magidson,
Jason
Cazares,
and
Jaron
Na-
bors,
at
least
two
of
whom
she
had
previously
had
consensual
sex
with.
The
aack
began
when
Merel’s
older
brother’s
girlfriend,
Nicole
Brown,
sexually
assaulted
Araujo
by
grabbing
her
with
transphobic
elation.
Brown’s
violent
as-
sessment
of
Araujo’s
body
publicly
unsheltered
the
assumed
heterosexuality
of
the
two
that
had
maintained
a
sexual
relationship
with
her.
Magidson
then
pushed
Araujo
to
the
ground
and
forcibly
stripped
her,
in
confirmation
of
his
sustained
ability
to
overpower
Araujo
—
the
reclamation
of
his
cis
heterosexu-
ality.
While
a
heterosexual
man
having
sex
with
a
trans
woman
does
not
make
him
“homosexual,”
Merel’s
reaction
highlights
the
bind
between
forced
gen-
der
and
heteronormativity
and
the
matrix
of
constitutive
misrecognition
that
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Reading with Care
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: River of Sorrow
- 1. Near Life: Overkill and Ontological Capture
- 2. Necrocapital: Blood’s General Strike
- 3. Clocked: Surveillance, Opacity, and the Image of Force
- 4. Death Drop: Becoming the Universe at the End of the World
- Coda: Becoming Ungovernable
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index