“Even though we could narrate all of the other fake progress the United States government has made in supposedly protecting hated groups … it’s very powerful the way that Eric tells those stories through these sites of violence and really shows how that works. “Eric’s argument that things get worse when we’re told they get better is so profound still,” said panelist Dean Spade, an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law. In their book, Stanley writes that although we’re supposedly living in a time of LGBT inclusion in the U.S., as evidenced by the legal expansion of marriage, lesbian and gay military recruitment and the proliferation of LGBT characters in popular visual culture, it is this inclusion that most properly names the state’s violent expansion. My chronic absence was narrated as disruptive, not because I was actively distracting others, but because I exposed the fragility of that which kept us in class by escaping it.” It was then, as it is now, much easier to banish the survivor and to produce us as the problem of our own making than it is to confront violence’s grind. I was charged with truancy, which was the name they gave my attempt to escape the extended torment of public education.
“By the age of 14, I had already been expelled from school for the second and final time. “I, too, was an errant youth,” read Stanley at the Nov. Stanley began by reading an excerpt from the book: In Berkeley Talks episode 128, a panel of artists, organizers and academics discuss UC Berkeley professor Eric Stanley’s 2021 book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, which interrogates why, in a time when LGBT rights are advancing in the U.S., anti-trans violence continues to rise. Eric Stanley is an associate professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and author of the new book, Atmospheres of Violence.
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