Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”

Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Austr...

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VerfasserInnen: Sanders, Tait (VerfasserIn) ; Gildersleeve, Jessica (VerfasserIn) ; Halliwell, Sherree (VerfasserIn) ; du Plessis, Carol (VerfasserIn) ; Clark, Kirsty A (VerfasserIn) ; Hughto, Jaclyn MW (VerfasserIn) ; Mullens, Amy B (VerfasserIn) ; Phillips, Tania M (VerfasserIn) ; Daken, Kirstie (VerfasserIn) ; Brömdal, Annette (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Punishment & society
Jahr: 2023, Band: 25, Heft: 3, Seiten: 742-765
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trans architecture
archive fever
Prison
Incarceration
trans women
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Zusammenfassung:Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the U.S. to elucidate the way in which the prison functions according to Lucas Crawford's theory of trans architecture, alongside Jacques Derrida's notion of archive fever. The paper displays how the cisnormative archive of the justice system and its architectural constructs impact trans women in men's incarceration settings, including how trans women entering the incarceration setting are able to embody gender in a way that is not reified by the insistences of those normative structures. In light of this, this paper advances a theoretical understanding of the prison as an archive and as an architectural construct, providing a new means of understanding how incarcerated trans persons may use and perform gender to survive carceral violence.
ISSN:1741-3095
DOI:10.1177/14624745221087058