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Transfeminist and queer Discourse Against intracommunity GEnder-based violence

Project description

Community-based responses to gender violence in queer spaces

Gender-based violence within feminist and queer communities remains underexplored, particularly in terms of how grassroots (trans)feminist and queer groups understand and respond to it from within their own communities. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the T-DERANGE project will examine how transfeminist and queer grassroots political communities understand and address intracommunity gender-based violence which is not committed by cisgender men through transformative and community-based approaches. Focusing on activists, civil society organisations, militant groups and influencers aligned with transfeminist politics, the project will reconstruct emerging knowledge systems and practices around violence, while developing an incomplete and reflexive transfeminist and queer dictionary through a participatory process. This resource will help communities analyse and respond to intracommunity gender-based violence in all its complexity.

Objective

The project Transfeminist and queer Discourse Against intracommunity GEnder-based violence (T-DERANGE) will study the discursive practices of transfeminist and queer political communities on intracommunity gender-based violence: how these grassroots groups understand violence in non-heterosexual relationships and how they deal with it with a transformative perspective. The project proposes two main innovations in research: (1) it extends the theoretical and methodological framework for identifying and understanding gender-based violence introducing a stakeholder and community-centred perspective; (2) it highlights and operationalize situated ethics and discursive practices concerned with community accountability and community-based transformative justice. The primary target of the project are social movements, civil society organisations (CSOs and NGOs), militant groups, activists and influencers who explicitly adhere to a separate transfeminist politics (no cisgender men). T-DERANGE has two main specific objectives: (SO1) to reconstruct emerging epistemologies and value systems related to intra-community gender-based violence in grassroots transfeminist and queer political communities. (SO2) to co-operationalize grassroots knowledge and praxis through an extensive participatory approach leading to an Incomplete and Reflexive Transfeminist and Queer Dictionary on intracommunity gender-based violence. This will include both situated definitions accompanied by a reflexive account on the process leading to the entries; and a set of guiding questions to analyse intracommunity gender-based violence and deal with it, accounting for complexity in understanding and managing such situations.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF

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Coordinator

CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE
Net EU contribution
€ 226 420,56
Address
33 BOULEVARD DU PORT
95011 Cergy-Pontoise
France
Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Val-d’Oise
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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