Trans Vitalities

Mapping Ethnographies of Trans Social and Political Coalitions

• Author(s): Elijah Adiv Edelman,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 162
• ISBN_10: 1351128000
  ISBN_13: 9781351128001
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Civil Rights , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Human Sexuality , Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

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This book applies a framework of ‘trans vitalities’ through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, DC. Specifically, it considers how trans social justice work at the local level exemplifies why and how the notions of ‘trans community’ or ‘trans rights’ must be reconfigured. Trans vitalities, as a framework developed in this volume, functions in three particular ways: 1) to disrupt and rethink what valuable, viable, or quantifiable quality of life looks like; 2) to shift our understandings of community towards ‘coalition’; and 3) as a methodological, theoretical, and application-based set of tools that integrates a radical trans politics and community-based approach towards addressing trans lives. Trans Vitalities incorporates one-on-one interviews, community map-making projects, and an analysis of the DC Trans Needs Assessment, produced through trans coalitional labor.

An accessible case study for both how to research trans-specific topics and how to apply a framework of trans vitalities, this book is valuable reading for those who research or instruct on LGBTQ topics as well as activists, policy makers, and law makers.