Davy, Z. (2023). Affective trans relationships: Towards a Deleuzian approach to friendship theory. In A. C. Santos (Ed.), LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe: Citizenship, Care and Choice (pp. 213-232). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

This chapter challenges mainstream friendship theory from philosophy and psychosocial studies that seems to suggest that at school friendship is based on hierarchized types of relationship. Drawing on data from parents of trans and gender-diverse children, this chapter demonstrates that friendship and friendship bonds cannot be universalized and that we must acknowledge the different desires, choices, and lived experiences through time and space, the roles, and the desires that are produced in an ongoing way within friendship relationships and that they are constantly moving. I argue that by looking at these friendship affects through a Deleuzian lens we are able to enunciate how friendships are, according to the parents, affective and becoming minoritarian and thus producing new ways to think about friends and friendship bonds. OPEN ACCESS file:///C:/Users/zowie/OneDrive/Documents/Embodied_Queer_Epistemologies_A_New_Approach_to_a_.pdf

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