Trans Rights and the Politics of Exclusion

Abstract

This panel focuses on the intersection between anti-gender, anti-feminist, and trans-exclusionary discourses in contexts as diverse as the UK, Turkey, India, and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The papers offer a rich examination of these questions through the mobilization of transfeminist, intersectional, and decolonial frameworks to shed light onto the legal, discursive, and colonial underpinnings of these exclusionary politics. They analyze the “punitive pleasure” derived from policing gendered boundaries in the UK, the construction of “sex and cis trouble” in the framework of the Family Year in Turkey, the invisibilization of the experiences of the Hijra and Nupi Manbi community in India within global queer discourses, and the deployment of antigender and anti-feminist politics as technologies of colonial governance in stateless nations. Within this regulatory logic, the featured studies explore possibilities of resistance that do not marginalize indigenous and peripheral gender expressions and narratives.

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The Politics of Exclusion: Trans Identity in a Shifting Political Landscape	View Paper Details
Transfeminist Resistance in Europe’s Stateless Nations. Anticolonial Struggles Against Anti-gender and Anti-feminist Politics in Sardinia and Corsica	View Paper Details
Sex and cis trouble in Turkey: the 11th Judicial Package and trans people	View Paper Details
Policing Personhood through Punitive Pleasure: affect and abolitionist responses to regressive gender politics	View Paper Details