one million dead epistemologies

by elizabeth veldon

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this album came about through an interaction with the composer Alex Temple on language that had passed out of common usage in the trans community.

this led me to think about my own experience in the light of justice epistemology.

Thaky you to Alex for her often though provoking contributions to my life.

the text of the facebook post explaining this is included here:

Recently, in conversation with Alex Temple, i was talking about being an elder in the trans community. More truthfully i was realising that in speaking about ‘older trans folks’ when i ‘transitioned’ had led me to realise that i was now one of those older trans folks.

This has led me to ask quite a few questions of myself and my relationship to younger trans folks and ask if i am as eager to force them into a relationship with their bodies and identities which matches my own. I hope i am not and that i do not do this and can find no real trace of this in my actions but there is a kink in this and it is that there are aspects of the experience of younger trans folks, particularly trans femmes, which i find it difficult to share.

I find, among the community, a less fraught relationship to the body and to sex than my generation had. This has led me to question my own experience of dysphoria and my relationship to my pre-surgical body.
The field of social epistemology studies the ways in which knowledge and ways of knowing are formed within groups and i have been thinking about this in relation to how we (we being my generation of trans people) experienced dysphoria and experienced our bodies. To what extent was our experience, our way of knowing our own transness, shaped by group experience and by testimonial injustice towards those who had a different experience?

Testimonial injustice is a form of epistemological injustice whereby we do not give weight to the testimony of those who fall outside our own epistemological group or world view. Though we sought to bring all views within our activism where we suffering the same lack of understanding which (to use a classic case of testimonial injustice) the academy suffered in regards to both feminism and black studies? Where we essentially unable to spot our own epistemology bias and am i only now becoming aware of my own?

Did we make others suffer Hermeneutical injustice (a form of epistemological injustice where the degree of injustice is so great that existing becomes impossible and epistemologies are killed before they are even born - where people are killed) and did we cause ourselves to suffer Hermeneutical injustice?

I know how i felt about my pre-surgical body and l do not regret surgery but would that have been different with a different epistemology? Would that have been different if I was ‘transitioning’ now?

Additionally I have added a blog post discussing the murder of Brianna Ghey which I think is relevent to this, it is part of the download.

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released March 16, 2023

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i am a sound artist and sort-of academic researching themes of labour and hierarchies in art.

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