Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley asserts that the consistency of such harms points to a much larger structure of our social world. Stanley argues is a structuring antagonism, that Atmospheres of Violence dwells.

It is within this contradiction, which Eric A. While the recent past, roughly from the Stonewall uprisings of 1969 to the present, is usually narrated as a time of LGBT equality, with the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the expansion of hate crimes legislation, and marriage equality, during this same period there has been an escalation in murders of trans women, particularly those who are Black and Brown. nonconforming people in the United States. Wed, April 26 at 4pm | HUM 1, rm.'Atmospheres of Violence is a study of the forms of violence levied against trans/queer and gender. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. Calling for trans/queer organizing and world-making beyond these forms, they point to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.Įric A. Drawing on archives of suicide notes, AIDS histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, Stanley offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the US - a structuring antagonism in our social world. In Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, theorist and organizer Eric A. Recent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. Nick Mitchell and FMST grad student Kaiya Gordon. Stanley, author of Atmosphere of Violence, in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. The Feminist Studies department is proud to host trans activist Eric A.

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