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Part IV. The Administrative Deathworld. A common question being asked by trans people and their loved ones more and ore often every day under this administration is the question of place and belonging. “Do I belong here?” “Can I safely stay here?” Both at the state and federal levels, trans people and their families have long been forced into positions of considering if they must flee their home in order to retain not just their healthcare, not just their civil rights, but th

III. The Production of the Cisgender State Foucault’s concept of biopolitics responds to a ballooning in the public conceptualization of bodily autonomy brought on by advances in biomedical sciences, as it relates to the power of the state to regulate and delimit the exercise of such autonomy. As liberal society burgeoned and medical technologies developed, which Mbembe names “technomedicine” (Mbembe, 2019, p. 14), life and the body became radically reframed by an emergent  “

This work represents a moment in time. Initially drafted just prior to the election of Trump in 2024, and substantially revised/updated during the first half of 2025, this work was an attempt to quickly qualify the genocidal intentions of the impending Trump Regime. Because the peer-review process for most journals is painfully slow, and the ontological role of speed is so foundational to fascist movements, it became difficult to keep this piece up to date and subject to peer