these points are very important to any queer/trans organizing today and are well argued.Īlong the way, Eric Stanley theorizes and reframes interpersonal anti-queer/trans violence, blood donations, the origin of AIDS, potential liberatory trans aesthetics, suicide, the legacies of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, solitary confinement, and much more. it also argues that systemic "inclusion" isn't a reduction of violence, but is (and has been historically) a continuation or heightening of violence. one of this book's central arguments is that racialized anti-queer/trans violence is foundational to the modern order of things (settler-colonial US democracy), and not an aberration or some old thing. I love Stanley’s work and think there is a much needed weaving together of political analysis in this book, I just wouldn’t dare recommend it to many people who have lived what this book theorizes around.Ĥ.5. Patricia Hill Collins encourages us as scholar-organizers to write and speak in “multiple registers.” This work is definitely only in the academic incredibly high-literacy register. I understand not everything needs to be accessible, but when a book is written about a group of people, this specific group of people, I believe they should be able to easily read it. While the concepts are incredibly sharp and much needed, this book would be impossible to read for so many people who it is about. But this book is about violence against queer and trans people and often retells the stories of their deaths and assaults. Stanley does some absolutely brilliant theoretical scaffolding around anti-blackness and transphobia in this work.
100% of the proceeds go to LGBT books behind bars. I’ll start by saying I’d give it 3.5 stars if I could.
CW: suicide, anti-trans violence, murder, rape and sexual assault, police violence, mass shootings, queer-bashing, anti-blackness.
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