Journal article
Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States
Feminism & Psychology, Vol.33(1), pp.42-64
2023
PMID: 37125407
Abstract
Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as “vulnerable populations” due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by strong cis and gender normative paradigms. This analysis seeks to better understand and appreciate how the “instructions” and the “authorities” that regulate trans women's corporeal representation, housing options and sense of self-determination implicate and affect their agency and actions in handling intimacies related to their personal life. Drawing upon lived incarcerated experiences of 24 trans women in Australia and the United States, and employing Ken Plummer's notion of intimate citizenship, this analysis explores how trans women navigate choices and ways “to do” gender, identities, bodies, emotions, desires and relationships while incarcerated in men's prisons and governed by cis and gender normative paradigms. This critical analysis contributes to understanding how incarcerated trans women through grit, resilience, and ingenuity still navigate ways to embody, express and enact their intimate citizenship in innovative and unique ways.
Details
- Title
- Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States
- Authors
- Annette Brömdal (Corresponding Author) - University of Southern QueenslandSherree Halliwell - University of Southern QueenslandTait Sanders - University of Southern QueenslandKirsty A. Clark - Vanderbilt UniversityJessica Gildersleeve - University of Southern QueenslandAmy B. Mullens - University of Southern QueenslandTania M. Phillips - University of Southern QueenslandJoseph Debattista - Metro North Health (Australia)Carol du Plessis - University of Southern QueenslandKirstie Daken - University of Southern QueenslandJaclyn M.W. Hughto - Brown University
- Publication details
- Feminism & Psychology, Vol.33(1), pp.42-64
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1177/09593535221102224
- ISSN
- 1461-7161; 0959-3535
- PMID
- 37125407
- Grant note
- This work was supported by the HIV Foundation Queensland with the primary author as the lead investigator [Project ID 2017-20, 2017] and the Yale Fund for Gay and Lesbian Studies with the last author as the lead investigator [2015]. This work was also supported by the University of Southern Queensland through an Internal Research Capacity Grant with the primary author as the lead investigator [Project ID 1007573, 2020].
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991201542802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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