June 25, 2021
Violence against the transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming communities has continued to rise despite a broadening understanding of the experiences of these communities, with the year 2021 on track to being the deadliest in America. Berkeley News sits down with Eric Stanley, faculty afffiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, to discuss the impact that racist and colonial institutions have had on transgender communities and to suggest how the public can support trans liberation through structural and institutional change. In the interview, Professor Stanley discusses their new book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable