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    Lifemaking alongside Death: Violence, Care and the Everyday in Trans communities in India
    (2022-06) Bhattacharya, Sayan
    How do transgender communities disrupt and exceed the overdeterminations of their lives by structural oppression and death? My research investigates this question through a granular attention to the everyday of transgender life worlds in India. Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality and state recognition of the right to gender expression, transphobia, medical negligence, murders and suicides are still the daily realities that trans communities are forced to confront. My dissertation project, Lifemaking alongside Death: Violence, Care and the Everyday in Trans Communities in India, argues that trans communities devise various improvisatory and innovative strategies to make life in an environment signified by violence. I stage conversations between anthropologies of the everyday, trans and queer literatures on care and anti-caste scholarship to study the efforts needed to reproduce an everyday that can be inhabited. These effortful strategies range from gestures that seek pleasure, negotiations with the nation state on demands of welfare to the performance of care labor for each other and devising dark humour on death that help trans people not only endure violence but also to refuse its overdeterminations of trans life.