Earlier this year, the聽 and 杏吧原创 University Film Studies hosted a virtual talk by the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at 杏吧原创 University C谩el M. Keegan on 鈥�Bad Trans Objects.鈥� Thank you to the nearly 200 people who attended!
If you weren’t able to come to the live event, the talk was recorded and is now available. Closed captions and a downloadable transcript are also available.
Bad Trans Objects
The assumption that more and better images of transgender people are key to achieving transgender equality strains under an emerging contradiction: As the number of 鈥減ositive鈥� transgender media objects has increased in the Global North, so too have cultural and legislative hostilities toward transgender people. Arguing that the aesthetics of 鈥済ood鈥� trans representation narrow the scope of sexual politics and contribute to trans antagonism, this project investigates the mediated history of trans badness鈥搑eclaiming it as a radical trans property that must be embraced to reorient us toward sex and gender liberation.
Speaker Details
C谩el M. Keegan is the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at 杏吧原创 University and Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University. He is author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender (University of Illinois Press, 2018) and co-editor of Somatechnics 8.1 and the JCMS In Focus dossier, 鈥淭ransing Cinema and Media Studies.鈥� His writing has also appeared in Genders, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Mediekultur, The Journal of Homosexuality, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Quarterly, and FLOW. Currently, he serves as Special Editor for Arts and Culture at Transgender Studies Quarterly