Queer Transgender Trauma Quotes

“Mark Seltzer claims in his work on American's "wounld culture" that we live in a society so preoccupied with scenes of violence and violation that trauma has become "an effect in search of a cause" (Seltzer 1998 257).
Seltzer's formulation of the psychological experience of trauma as a belated or retrospective constructino of the pshysical experience of violation describves perfectly the kind of attention directed at a Brandon Teena or a Matthew Shepard; such figures are made to stand in for the hurts and the indignities that are so often rendered invisible by the peculiar closet structure of homophobia.”
― Judith Halberstam