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Narrating the Unspeakable: Trauma, Memory, and Resistance in Transgender Autobiographies

Author(s) Ghanshyam Raidas
Country India
Abstract This paper explores the intersection of trauma, memory, and resistance in selected transgender autobiographies from India, namely I Am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey by Vidya, Invisible Men: Inside India’s Transmasculine Network by Nandini Krishnan, Red Lipstick: The Men in My Life by Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, A Life in Trans Activism by A. Revathi, and Myself Mona Ahmed by Dayanita Singh. These narratives foreground the unspeakable dimensions of violence, stigma, and social exclusion faced by transgender individuals, while simultaneously constructing powerful archives of lived experience. Through an engagement with memory as both personal testimony and collective history, the autobiographies challenge dominant heteronormative discourses and create spaces of recognition for marginalized identities. The paper argues that trauma, though central, is not the sole narrative force; rather, resistance emerges as a vital mode of survival and self-assertion. These texts reclaim agency through storytelling, transforming silences into voices of defiance and solidarity. By situating these autobiographies within the broader frameworks of queer studies, trauma theory, and subaltern historiography, the study highlights how life writing becomes a site of both vulnerability and empowerment for transgender communities in contemporary India.
Keywords Transgender autobiographies, trauma, memory, resistance, life writing, queer studies, India
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-10-07
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.57525
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