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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Director Horak: Trans Cinema Doesn’t Just Improve Visibility—It Imagines Better Worlds

Since the rise of the concept of “transgender” in the 1990s, many activists, filmmakers and scholars have worked to make trans people more visible. Those efforts have made a real impact — increasing trans visibility has led to more community building, more people having a name to describe themselves, and the rise of diverse trans political... More

Friday, October 31, 2025

Support the Transgender Media Portal Fund!

We are raising money to support the operations of the Transgender Media Portal by funding expenses such as student researcher salaries, student researcher travel for research and conference presentations, community events, and lab training on topics including anti-oppression facilitation, conflict resolution, accessibility, and digital safety.... More

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Transgender Media Lab supports Capital Pride’s Statement in Solidarity with Palestine

The Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University is ashamed that its home institution has withdrawn from Capital Pride without so much as an... More

Monday, July 31, 2023

New report on the unpaid labor of Indigenous youth groups!

The Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G), an Indigenous youth group in Ottawa that we are building a relationship with, has participated in an important new report about how the labor of Indigenous gets exploited, even by people and organizations with the best of intensions. Learn about what's happening and what we need to do... More

Monday, March 27, 2023

We are in solidarity with CUPE 4600’s strike

CUPE 4600 represents all Teaching Assistants, internally-funded Research Assistants, and Contract Instructors at Carleton University. It is the largest union on campus, with nearly 3000 members. They have been on strike since Monday, March 27 in their fight for: Fair pay Protecting their intellectual property when designing online courses Better... More

Monday, March 6, 2023

Call for Applications: CSS Expert for Summer 2023

May 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023 Salary: $25.00/hour 200 hours total Remote work from home with option to work on-campus at Carleton University Application deadline: 31 March 2023 Deadline extended to 3 April 2023! The Transgender Media Portal (TMP) is a website and database that aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Video: Laura Horak, Cáel M. Keegan, and Sam Feder on “Disclosure” and Trans Media

The Netflix Original Documentary Disclosure (2020) presents an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture. For Carleton University's first ever official Pride, the Transgender Media Lab celebrated by hosting a screening of Disclosure, accompanied by a... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Video: Cáel M. Keegan “Bad Trans Objects”

Earlier this year, the  Transgender Media Portal and Carleton University Film Studies hosted a virtual talk by the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University Cáel M. Keegan on “Bad Trans Objects.” Thank you to the nearly 200 people who attended! If you weren't able to come to... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Complicating Trans Representation: An Interview with Cáel M. Keegan

Transgender Media Lab member and Carleton 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 Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences... More

Monday, December 6, 2021

Call for Applications: Front End Developer & Analyst

We are seeking an incoming or existing MA or PhD student to lead front end development and analysis for the Transgender Media... More

Friday, November 26, 2021

The TML is in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

  The Transgender Media Lab condemns the RCMP’s brutal militarized attacks against Wet’suwet’en land defenders who are protecting sacred headwaters from TC Energy’s illegal efforts to run the Coastal Gaslink pipeline through the unceded territory of Wet’suwet’en. We deplore the Canadian government’s actions to undermine and... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival 2022 Opens Call for Entries

The call for entries for the 2022 Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival is now open—submit your work today! About the festival Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival is a groundbreaking film festival that provides the Pacific Northwest with a venue for films by, for, and about transgender people and the issues facing the... More

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