travesticide
travesticide noun: the killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
Noun
travesticide (plural travesticides)
- The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
- In 2018 the figure of "travesticide" (term developed by Radi and Sardá-Chandiramani 2016) was applied for the first time in Argentina during the trial for the murder of travesti activist Diana Sacayán.2020, Moira Fradinger, Blas Radi, Moira Pérez, “Argentina, Chile, And Uruguay”, in Chuck Stewart, editor, Gender and Identity Around the World, page 197
- Speaking of violence starting from femicides and travesticides positions them as its culminating point, but it also poses a challenge: to not limit ourselves to its necropolitical accounting, the tallying of femicides and victims.2020, Verónica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, page 56
Forms of travesticide
| plural | travesticides |
|---|---|
| alternative form | transvesticide |
Origin of travesticide
From Spanish travesti (“trans woman, cross-dresser”) + -cide.
Questions about travesticide
- What does travesticide mean?
- Travesticide means the killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
- What part of speech is travesticide?
- Travesticide is a noun.
- What is the plural of travesticide?
- The plural of travesticide is travesticides.
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