Book Talk/Lecture by Aslı Zengin: Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World

Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people’s everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to kevorkian.center@nyu.edu by November 7, 2023. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. 

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