Culturally Centering the Voices of Transgender Sex Workers in Singapore: Health, Materiality and Violence.
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2024-06-25
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Taylor and Francis Group
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The transgender sex worker experience of health in Singapore is multidimensional, working at the intersections of culture, social class, and gendered marginalization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transgender sex workers in the context of Singapore's extreme neoliberalism and located within a larger culture-centered intervention that emerged through an academic-activist-community partnership, this study foregrounds the everyday meanings of health among transgender sex workers who are marginalized. We offer a discursive register for theorizing violence as disruption of health. Participants narrate health as the negotiation of stigmas coded into their everyday lives, the forms of material violence they experience, and the struggles with accessing secure housing. The theorizing of violence as threat to health by transgender sex workers shapes the health advocacy and health activism that takes the form of a 360 degrees campaign. This essay pushes the literature on the culture-centered approach (CCA) by centering voice as the basis for structurally transformative articulations amidst neoliberal authoritarianism.
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Dutta MJ, Mahtani R, Ho V, Sherqueshaa S, Thomas S, Jalleh-Hosey AA, Pitaloka D, Zapata D, Elers P. (2024). Culturally Centering the Voices of Transgender Sex Workers in Singapore: Health, Materiality and Violence.. Health Commun. Latest Articles. (pp. 1-9).