As a Queer, Trans, Nonbinary, light skinned person of color, I utilize detailed first hand narratives to illustrate the ongoing and longstanding trauma and violence that is experienced within universities, specifically at San Diego State University (SDSU), as a result of converging layers of administrative violence in conjunction with cisfragility, its resultant effect on Queer and Trans People of Color, and recommendations that seek to reimagine security, safety and community care for historically marginalized folks in higher education. In chapter two, I analyze three converging elements of administrative violence (the co-optation and commodification of labor by the University Industrial Complex (UIC), the effect of the ‘cistemicly feigned’, and social death through inclusion and exclusion) that play out and reproduce, sites and subjects of harm within higher education. In the third chapter, I demand the university, particularly SDSU to step up, (and folks to open their eyes to the level of neoliberal subjecthood formation and its toxicity!) Through a restorative practice lens, I share instrumental recommendations and challenge the university to take on these vital/incredibly needed efforts which will positively and radically impact the lived experience of Trans, Nonbinary, Gender Nonconforming, and Queer, People Of Color (POC), among many other historically marginalized communities on campus.
