title: "This Is Where You Fall off My Map": Trans-Spectrum Spatialities in Washington, DC, Safety, and the Refusal to Submit to Somatic Erasure.
abstract: This article explores how "safety" and "safe space," as a somatic, psychic, or affective freedom from harm and a kind of experiential "health," is constructed in transgender, transsexual, and gender-nonconforming (henceforth trans (1) ) persons in community-produced maps of Washington, DC as a "trans city." These maps, and their associated narratives, provide the only up-to-date data available on the lived experience of trans populations living in the District, a city quickly gaining notoriety for systemic brutality against trans feminine people of color.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , Rhode Island College , Providence , Rhode Island , USA.
authors.forename: Elijah Adiv
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Edelman
mesh_terms: D004219:District of Columbia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology*; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Activism; bioethics; community-based research; public anthropology; radical cartography; safety; trans; transgender; transsexual