Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey

Aesthetics in Distress: Gender-Based Violence and Visual Culture. Introductory Note

“…In the meantime, the ongoing anti-trans* hate crimes worldwide made 2021 the deadliest year for trans* and gender-diverse people, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project (TMM Update TDoR 2021, 2021), many of which intersect with racism, xenophobia, misogyny and hate towards sex workers while the others remain unreported or undocumented. Such life-threatening violence against LGBTQI+ individuals has been extremely intensifying yet getting even more inconspicuous in places "far from eyes" such as correctional facilities, detention centres and border camps where the disenfranchised detainees have been further exposed to sexual and gender-based abuse such as strip-search, rape and harassment, as well as to other punishment techniques, ranging from extra policing and deprivation of material needs to solitary confinement (Canlı, 2020;Luibhéid & Chávez, 2020). On another front, accelerating climate injustice and ongoing extractivism as an extension of colonial anthropocentric exploitation have detrimental effects on indigenous women and girls, whose survival depends on natural sources, especially in regions where environmental conflicts, gendered community care, and poverty prevail yet remain off the radar (Desai & Mandal, 2021;Santisteban, 2020;Vergès 2021).…”