Abstract:
Trans necropolitics (Snorton & Haritaworn, 2013), whereby violence towards racialised trans bodies is used to justify the creation of infrastructures that protect (white) transnormative subjects, embodies a vicious manifestation of the colonialities of gender (Lugones, 2007) and a reification of the whiteness of transsexuality (Gill-Peterson, 2018). The co-constitution of race and gender continues to operate as a disciplinary mechanism that maintains Modern/colonial hegemonies through the Genres of Man (Wynter, 2003), designating who qualifies as recognisably human. Posthumanism has been offered as a means of combatting these injustices; however, Pasley, Jaramillo-Aristizabal and Romero (2024) have echoed critiques of posthumanism’s proclivity to reproduce master narratives and the fungibility of ‘less-than-human’ bodies (see also Jackson, 2020; Singh, 2017; Warren, 2017; Watts, 2016; Sundberg, 2014; Todd, 2013). The present paper performs a citational politics (hence the many references; Ahmed, 2017) that enacts a political ontology (de la Cadena, 2010), willing to know and learn from other worlds on their own terms (Hoskins, 2010). Such praxes acknowledge that worlds where trans necropolitics are unimaginable always already haunt these gender injustices.
Ahmed, S. 2017. Living a feminist life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
De la Cadena, M. (2010). Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual reflections beyond “politics”. Cultural anthropology, 25(2), 334-370.
Gill-Peterson, J. (2018). Histories of the transgender child. U of Minnesota Press.
Hoskins, T. K. (2010). Māori and Levinas: kanohi ki te kanohi for an ethical politics (Doctoral dissertation, ResearchSpace@ Auckland).
Jackson, Z. I. (2020). Becoming human: Matter and meaning in an antiblack world. In Becoming Human. New York University Press.
Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), 186-219.
Pasley, A., Jaramillo-Aristizabal, A., & Romero, N. (2024). Gratuitous Posthumanism in Education:‘There Is No Thought Not Yet Thought’. In Towards Posthumanism in Education (pp. 19-37). Routledge.
Singh, J. (2017). Unthinking mastery: Dehumanism and decolonial entanglements. Duke University Press.
Snorton, C. R., & Haritaworn, J. (2022). Trans necropolitics: A transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife. In The transgender studies reader remix (pp. 305-316). Routledge.
Sundberg, J. (2014). Decolonizing posthumanist geographies. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 33-47.
Todd, Z. (2015). Indigenizing the anthropocene. Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among aesthetics, politics, environments and epistemologies, 241-54.
Warren, C. (2017). Onticide: Afro-pessimism, gay nigger# 1, and surplus violence. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23(3), 391-418.
Watts, V. A. (2016). Re-meaning the sacred: Colonial damage and Indigenous cosmologies (Doctoral dissertation, Queen's University (Canada)).
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument. CR: The new centennial review, 3(3), 257-337.
Ahmed, S. 2017. Living a feminist life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
De la Cadena, M. (2010). Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual reflections beyond “politics”. Cultural anthropology, 25(2), 334-370.
Gill-Peterson, J. (2018). Histories of the transgender child. U of Minnesota Press.
Hoskins, T. K. (2010). Māori and Levinas: kanohi ki te kanohi for an ethical politics (Doctoral dissertation, ResearchSpace@ Auckland).
Jackson, Z. I. (2020). Becoming human: Matter and meaning in an antiblack world. In Becoming Human. New York University Press.
Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), 186-219.
Pasley, A., Jaramillo-Aristizabal, A., & Romero, N. (2024). Gratuitous Posthumanism in Education:‘There Is No Thought Not Yet Thought’. In Towards Posthumanism in Education (pp. 19-37). Routledge.
Singh, J. (2017). Unthinking mastery: Dehumanism and decolonial entanglements. Duke University Press.
Snorton, C. R., & Haritaworn, J. (2022). Trans necropolitics: A transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife. In The transgender studies reader remix (pp. 305-316). Routledge.
Sundberg, J. (2014). Decolonizing posthumanist geographies. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 33-47.
Todd, Z. (2015). Indigenizing the anthropocene. Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among aesthetics, politics, environments and epistemologies, 241-54.
Warren, C. (2017). Onticide: Afro-pessimism, gay nigger# 1, and surplus violence. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23(3), 391-418.
Watts, V. A. (2016). Re-meaning the sacred: Colonial damage and Indigenous cosmologies (Doctoral dissertation, Queen's University (Canada)).
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument. CR: The new centennial review, 3(3), 257-337.