Digital technologies and the violent surveillance of nonbinary gender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15749043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jama Shelton (0000-0001-5990-5072, Hunter College, corresponding author), Kel Kroehle (California University of Pennsylvania), Emilie K Clark (Hunter College), Kristie L Seelman (0000-0002-4064-2927, Georgia State University), SJ Dodd (0000-0002-9140-8807, Hunter College) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 517-529 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender-Based Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-6808 • E-ISSN: 2398-6816 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/239868021x16153783053180 |
| OpenAlex | W3155601388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The enforcement of the gender binary is a root cause of gender-based violence (GBV) for trans people. Disrupting GBV requires that we ensure that ‘gender’ is not presumed synonymous with White cisgender womanhood. Transfeminists suggest that attaining gender equity requires confronting all forms of oppression that police people and their bodies, including White supremacy, colonialism and capitalism (Silva and Ornat, 2016; Simpkins, 2016). Part of this project, we argue, includes confronting the structures of GBV embedded within digital technologies that are increasingly part of our everyday lives. Informed by transfeminist theory (Koyama, 2003; Stryker and Bettcher, 2016; Simpkins, 2016; Weerawardhana, 2018), we interrogate the ways in which digital technologies naturalise and reinforce GBV against bodies marked as divergent. We examine the subtler ways that digital technology can fortify binary gender as a mechanism of power and control. We highlight how gendered forms of data violence cannot be disentangled from digital technologies that surveil, police or punish on the basis of race, nationhood and citizenship, particularly in relation to predictive policing practices. We conclude with recommendations to guide technological development to reduce the violence enacted upon trans people and those whose gender presentations transgress society’s normative criteria for what constitutes a compliant (read: appropriately gendered) citizen
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |