A big family of bad bad bad girls! Critical study of knotted entanglements between body, kinship, time, memory and language among trans women who live in Istanbul

Drawing on trans ways of approaching experiences of being, becoming, and relating, this dissertation aims to tell a story of ‘not coincidental but difficult to explain’ entanglements of body, kinship, time, and language by following curious and unexpected links between family and memory. I look at mutually formed mother and daughter relationships and matrilineal ties that are formed among trans women in Turkey to develop a trans theoretical perspective that would allow us to slow down the almost automatic and often state-sponsored inextricabilities that link body, to identity, to family, to a specific time and space, language and memory.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2023

Author dc:creator

• Caliskan, Dilara

Contributors dc:contributor

• Greenberg, Jessica R.
• Davis, Jenny L.
• Manalansan, Martin F.
• Rothberg, Michael
• Açıksöz, Can

• Trans-matrilineality
• Lubunca
• Trans/queer Kinship
• Language
• Memory
• Trans-linguistics

Statement dc:rights

• This documents needs a two year embargo upon its submission.

Language dc:language

eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121263

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/121263