ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on who is carrying out the actions of everyday resistance—the different agents and their relationships. The point of departure is taken in the assumption of resistance as a process of interaction between resisters, targets and observers. A shift in the study of everyday resistance is suggested, that makes it possible to capture the construction of multiple and shifting identities of agents of resistance and the interplay between these, as well as the contradictory positions of being both dominant and subordinate, depending on in which system/context/relationship subjects are positioned and position themselves. Further, disidentification is brought forward as a fruitful concept in the analysis of everyday resistance, capturing both movement and friction. In the final sections, the relationship dimension is queered. By looking into research on cisgender partners of self-identified trans persons, we highlight how acts of everyday resistance are shaped within, and through, a specific queer relationship. The role of cisgender partner, as well as other examples, illustrate how the positions that actors take are not to be seen as fixed, but rather as shifting and, perhaps, as liminal positions.
