Visibility Politics and Violence against Trans Women

“Modern LGBT politics has largely centered around the issue of ?sibility. In this essay, I will argue that this goal is harmful by investigating it through a broadly Foucauldian analysis, showing it to be a panoptic disciplinary apparatus meant to support a largely negat?e regime of biopower and necropower, reducing Trans women to bare life in Agamben’s formulation and sanctioning our murder. I will work towards suggesting an alternat?e pra?s.”