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Title: Trans media representation
Post by: SandraJane on February 16, 2012, 02:14:18 AM
Post by: SandraJane on February 16, 2012, 02:14:18 AM
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Trans media representation
Kat posted this in Gender on February 14th, 2012
http://mixosaurus.co.uk/2012/02/trans-representation/ (http://mixosaurus.co.uk/2012/02/trans-representation/)
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from http://www.thegenderbook.com (http://www.thegenderbook.com) / @thegenderbook
Perhaps unexpectedly, My Transsexual Summer has focused some of my thoughts about representation, power and self-representation.
There are well-worn tropes in trans documentaries – so well-worn that there is more than one drinking game out there, with invitations to drink for things such as "any reference to genital surgery that refers to "becoming a woman" or "finally a woman"", a "close up of dotted lines in magic marker on pale fleshy body parts", "if anyone uses the phrase "a man trapped in a woman's body," or vice versa", or to just to down the whole bottle for a camera in an operating theatre. This is the kind of representation the trans community is used to.
Trans media representation
Kat posted this in Gender on February 14th, 2012
http://mixosaurus.co.uk/2012/02/trans-representation/ (http://mixosaurus.co.uk/2012/02/trans-representation/)
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from http://www.thegenderbook.com (http://www.thegenderbook.com) / @thegenderbook
Perhaps unexpectedly, My Transsexual Summer has focused some of my thoughts about representation, power and self-representation.
There are well-worn tropes in trans documentaries – so well-worn that there is more than one drinking game out there, with invitations to drink for things such as "any reference to genital surgery that refers to "becoming a woman" or "finally a woman"", a "close up of dotted lines in magic marker on pale fleshy body parts", "if anyone uses the phrase "a man trapped in a woman's body," or vice versa", or to just to down the whole bottle for a camera in an operating theatre. This is the kind of representation the trans community is used to.