Valo Vähäpassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6521999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valo Vähäpassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valo |
| FAMILY NAME | Vähäpassi |
| SIGNATURE | VÄHÄPASSI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0254-8729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
Sex and gender policy has become a battleground for attacks on science and expertise. As researchers committed to rigorous evaluation of evidence, the authors examine how evidence is used and misused in debates on sex and gender policy affecting transgender people. Drawing on examples from healthcare, prison housing, and sport, they identify recurring pitfalls: elevating opinion as evidence, excluding trans expertise, discrediting scientific cons…
Identity or Solidarity? Trans Affective Publics and Identity Frames of Violence
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a key political day of action for the trans movement, both in the USA where it was invented, and elsewhere. I attend to the frames used about violence circulating in—and intensifying—what I call trans affective publics at and around Transgender Day of Remembrance by people and organizations in a “glocal” manner. I address both looser and stable frames of violence around Transgender Day of Remembrance, the most im…
An imaginative geography of linear gender
The wave of anti-trans bathroom bills since 2015 has raised awareness of the importance of bathroom politics for trans people. Long before this, feminist scholars have argued that bodies and spaces are simultaneously forced into a gender binary through the regulation of gender-segregated spaces such as bathrooms. In this article, I offer a trans feminist reading of the media events and rhetoric of the Christian right opposing trans access. I anal…
Finnish Right to Be -Citizens Initiative Campaign and the “Feeling of Being Counted
In this paper, I address the Finnish Oikeus olla- (Right to Be) citizens initiative campaign (2021) for a new trans law. I address the online campaign from the point of view of affect, especially the “feeling of being counted” (Coleman 2013; Papacharissi 2015, 25), in several senses. Through media autoetnography and qualitative content analysis of online material, I address the campaign as the experience of becoming part in the counted people, wh…
User-generated reality enforcement
While some scholars have addressed the common cultural tropes about trans people, the way media might sometimes legitimate violence against trans people, and even take part in forms of violence, has not been analysed. This is what this article sets out to do, through an examination of how a verbal and physical attack against black trans women, videotaped and uploaded on a platform for user-generated entertainment, was framed in a way which repeat…
An imaginative geography of linear gender
The wave of anti-trans bathroom bills since 2015 has raised awareness of the importance of bathroom politics for trans people. Long before this, feminist scholars have argued that bodies and spaces are simultaneously forced into a gender binary through the regulation of gender-segregated spaces such as bathrooms. In this article, I offer a trans feminist reading of the media events and rhetoric of the Christian right opposing trans access. I anal…
User-generated reality enforcement
While some scholars have addressed the common cultural tropes about trans people, the way media might sometimes legitimate violence against trans people, and even take part in forms of violence, has not been analysed. This is what this article sets out to do, through an examination of how a verbal and physical attack against black trans women, videotaped and uploaded on a platform for user-generated entertainment, was framed in a way which repeat…
User-generated reality enforcement
While some scholars have addressed the common cultural tropes about trans people, the way media might sometimes legitimate violence against trans people, and even take part in forms of violence, has not been analysed. This is what this article sets out to do, through an examination of how a verbal and physical attack against black trans women, videotaped and uploaded on a platform for user-generated entertainment, was framed in a way which repeat…
Finnish Right to Be -Citizens Initiative Campaign and the “Feeling of Being Counted
In this paper, I address the Finnish Oikeus olla- (Right to Be) citizens initiative campaign (2021) for a new trans law. I address the online campaign from the point of view of affect, especially the “feeling of being counted” (Coleman 2013; Papacharissi 2015, 25), in several senses. Through media autoetnography and qualitative content analysis of online material, I address the campaign as the experience of becoming part in the counted people, wh…
An imaginative geography of linear gender
The wave of anti-trans bathroom bills since 2015 has raised awareness of the importance of bathroom politics for trans people. Long before this, feminist scholars have argued that bodies and spaces are simultaneously forced into a gender binary through the regulation of gender-segregated spaces such as bathrooms. In this article, I offer a trans feminist reading of the media events and rhetoric of the Christian right opposing trans access. I anal…
Identity or Solidarity? Trans Affective Publics and Identity Frames of Violence
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a key political day of action for the trans movement, both in the USA where it was invented, and elsewhere. I attend to the frames used about violence circulating in—and intensifying—what I call trans affective publics at and around Transgender Day of Remembrance by people and organizations in a “glocal” manner. I address both looser and stable frames of violence around Transgender Day of Remembrance, the most im…
Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
Sex and gender policy has become a battleground for attacks on science and expertise. As researchers committed to rigorous evaluation of evidence, the authors examine how evidence is used and misused in debates on sex and gender policy affecting transgender people. Drawing on examples from healthcare, prison housing, and sport, they identify recurring pitfalls: elevating opinion as evidence, excluding trans expertise, discrediting scientific cons…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works)