Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World - Paperbackby Asli Zengin (Author) In Violent Intimacies, Asl Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality,