This introduction theorizes the formative relationship between violence and intimacy through the lenses of the trans everyday in Turkey. The intimate world is the trans everyday—that is, trans people’s bodies, their personal relationships, and trans spaces of inhabitation and socialization—is, in very violent ways, made sexually and morally legible and less ambiguous by the cisheteronormative organization of the street, the police, the medical institution, the legal domain, and the family and kinship. Yet the violent conditions of trans lives in Turkey are, at the same time, the conditions of trans empowerment, resistance, resilience, and the struggle in intimate ways. The theoretical concept of violent intimacies brings together stories of victimization and survival, abandonment and adoption, marginalization and resistance, death and life that might otherwise appear dissimilar. A focus on the trans everyday shows how the violence constitute a social field of creative living within which trans people invent and shape forms of intimacy that allow them to inhabit the world.