The (TMP) is a website and database that aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, researchers, instructors, and the public. In this position, you would help �Ӱ�ԭ�� professor Laura Horak (Film Studies) and the Transgender Media Lab team build the TMP and investigate trans cinema history.

We especially encourage trans, Black, Indigenous, racialized, disabled, Deaf, neurodivergent, and queer candidates to apply.

Previous Skills and Experience:

• Research, writing, clear communication
• Good time management, organized, independent worker
• Previous experience with trans art and activism and/or film funding, festivals, production, distribution, or archives a plus

Core Responsibilities:

• Research trans films and filmmakers online
• Research and communicate with film funders, festivals, distributors, and archives
• Enter information about trans-made films into the spreadsheets that make up the Transgender Media Portal
• Write engaging image descriptions

Potential Responsibilities, Depending on Your Interests and Skill Set:
This position is a learning opportunity. You’re not expected to know how to do all these things in advance. Each person will craft the responsibilities of their position in dialogue with the team based on their skills and what they want to learn.

• Organize public screenings of trans films
• Interview trans filmmakers
• Shoot and edit video interviews with filmmakers
• Code and analyze interviews
• Run the TMP’s social media accounts (Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook)
• Send email notifications to filmmakers added to the TMP
• Help run fundraising campaigns
• Analyze and visualize data about arts institutions, including network analysis

To Apply:
Email the following materials to laura.horak@carleton.ca by July 31, 2026:

• Brief cover letter (1-2 pages). Tell us why you want to work on this project and describe any relevant experience you have. Trans, Black, Indigenous, racialized, disabled, Deaf, neurodivergent, and queer applicants are invited to self-identify in the cover letter.
• CV (2-3 pages)

We will be holding Zoom interviews with top candidates in mid-August. At that point, we will also request contact information for recommenders.

Note on Qualifications:
We recognize community work, non-traditional or casual employment, relevant hobbies, self-taught, and unwaged work as legitimate qualifications, particularly as we work with marginalized populations often excluded from traditional academia and employment. Foreign qualifications outside of Western Europe, the US, and Canada are often undervalued and unrecognized in the Euro-Western world. We will take the time to research and interact with these qualifications, rather than building a standard around Euro-Western qualifications alone.

Our Approach:
We acknowledge the ways that colonialism, anti-Blackness, ableism, cis-centrism, transmisogyny, and homophobia structure the distribution of power, capital, and opportunities in so-called Canada and at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. See the Transgender Media Lab’s , , and for more information on how we prioritize marginalized candidates in hiring and combat oppressive hierarchies within our team.

Accommodations:
The Transgender Media Lab provides accommodation to applicants with disabilities during all parts of the hiring process. If contacted to proceed to the selection process, please advise us if you require any accommodation. Accessible formats and communication supports are available upon request.

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Queer resistance movements have always been aligned with resisting oppression in all forms. Pinkwashing of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza ignores the fact that queer Palestinians exist, and are more likely to be killed through Israel’s actions than any homophobia or transphobia. This lab represents views of many diverse individuals including queer and trans Muslims who have experienced firsthand the effects of this racist dehumanization by colonial and imperialist institutions. This lab stands in solidarity with Palestinian resistance and liberation.

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The (TMP) is a website and database that aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, researchers, instructors, and the public. In this position, you would help �Ӱ�ԭ�� professor Laura Horak (Film Studies) and her research team build the TMP and investigate trans cinema history.

Trans, Black, Indigenous, racialized, POC (people of color), disabled, Deaf, neurodivergent, and queer candidates especially encouraged to apply.

Transgender Media Portal home page design mock-up

Possible Responsibilities:

• Help design, implement, and test the Transgender Media Portal in collaboration with the project’s development team
• Collaborate with the UX designer and developers to create visually appealing and user-friendly web interface
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable CSS code to design spec
• Optimize web pages for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness of web pages
• Test and debug web pages to ensure that they are error-free
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of documentation and codecase

Previous skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of semantic CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
• Ability to write clean, efficient and production-ready code without the aid of a front-end framework such as Bootstrap or Foundation
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Familiarity with user experience and user interface (UX/UI) design and graphic design
• Experience with open-source frameworks such as Project Endings
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Clear communication, good time management, organized, independent worker
• Previous experience with trans art and activism a plus

To Apply:
Email the following materials to TransgenderMediaPortal@gmail.com by 31 March 2023:

• Brief cover letter. Tell us why you want to work on this project and describe any relevant experience you have. Trans, Black, Indigenous, racialized, POC (people of color), disabled, Deaf, neurodivergent, and queer candidates are invited to self-identify in the cover letter.
• A link to some of your CSS work on the web.
• CV (If a student, include Major GPA and Overall GPA; if a �Ӱ�ԭ�� student, include your �Ӱ�ԭ�� student number)

Questions?
Please send any questions about this posting or the Transgender Media Portal to Dr. Laura Horak at laura.horak@carleton.ca.

If you weren’t available to attend the event, Tune in to hear from , Director of Disclosure; Laura Horak, Director of �Ӱ�ԭ�� Transgender Media Lab; and Cáel M. Keegan, 2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University about Disclosure and trans media today.

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 “positive” transgender media objects has increased in the Global North, so too have cultural and legislative hostilities toward transgender people. Arguing that the aesthetics of “good” trans representation narrow the scope of sexual politics and contribute to trans antagonism, this project investigates the mediated history of trans badness–reclaiming it as a radical trans property that must be embraced to reorient us toward sex and gender liberation.

Speaker Details

Cáel M. Keegan is the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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, “Transing Cinema and Media Studies.” 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

Cáel M. Keegan. Photo credit: Bud Kibby, TINYuproar.

Transgender Media Lab member and���Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s 2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences Dr. Cáel M. Keegan speaks about his recent work on “Bad Trans Objects.”

Read his fascinating interview with Nick Ward for the �Ӱ�ԭ�� University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences here.