Eric Stanley's article in Social Text
Stanley & Smith, eds., Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex AK Press, 2011
According to Eric Stanley, brutal murders of LGBT people, many of which involve the mutilation or dismemberment of the victim's body, are not aberrations and should not be dismissed as the products of individual pathology. Instead, Stanley argues, these forms of violence are central to the reproduction of liberal democracy in the US. (Encore presentation; access the audio here.)