{"id":5035,"date":"2022-03-07T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=5035"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:22:25","slug":"fullbright-virtual-public-talk-cael-m-keegan-bad-trans-objects","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/event\/fullbright-virtual-public-talk-cael-m-keegan-bad-trans-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright Virtual Public Talk: C\u00e1el M. Keegan &#8216;Bad Trans Objects&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-400x618.png\" alt=\"Poster for Cael M. Keegan's talk 'Bad Trans Objects.'\" class=\"wp-image-5036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-400x618.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-160x247.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-240x371.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk-360x556.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/Poster-2022-CMK-Talk.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"description\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The assumption that more and better images of transgender people are key to achieving transgender equality strains under an emerging contradiction: &nbsp;As the number of \u201cpositive\u201d transgender media objects has increased in the Global North, so too have cultural and legislative hostilities toward transgender people. Arguing that the aesthetics of \u201cgood\u201d trans representation narrow the scope of sexual politics and contribute to trans antagonism, this project investigates the mediated&nbsp;history of trans&nbsp;badness&#8211;reclaiming it&nbsp;as a radical trans property that must be embraced to reorient us&nbsp;toward sex and gender liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"speaker-details\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speaker Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>C\u00e1el M. Keegan is the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University and Associate&nbsp;Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University. He is author of&nbsp;<\/em>Lana and Lilly Wachowski:&nbsp;Sensing Transgender&nbsp;<em>(University of Illinois Press, 2018) and co-editor of&nbsp;<\/em>Somatechnics&nbsp;8.1<em> and the&nbsp;<\/em>JCMS&nbsp;In Focus<em> dossier,&nbsp;&#8220;Transing Cinema and Media Studies.&#8221; His writing has also appeared in&nbsp;<\/em>Genders, Queer Studies in&nbsp;Media and Popular Culture,&nbsp;Transgender Studies Quarterly, Mediekultur,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Journal of Homosexuality,&nbsp;The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies,&nbsp;Film Quarterly,<em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em>FLOW<em>.&nbsp;Currently, he serves as Special Editor for&nbsp;Arts and Culture at&nbsp;<\/em>Transgender Studies Quarterly<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"registration\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Advance registration is required via the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwufuuvrzsuE9bDHww85Md5j9LuuSW1XgAF\">https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwufuuvrzsuE9bDHww85Md5j9LuuSW1XgAF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-5035","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2022-03-17T17:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2022-03-17T18:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Laura Horak","cu_event_email":"laura.horak@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5035\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}