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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Dr. Horak's article "Curating Trans Erotic Imaginaries" was recently published in Transgender Studies Quarterly's special issue on "Trans Pornography." Go to article Abstract: This article considers the archival, political, and ethical questions raised by curating a public exhibit of archival trans erotic material through a case study of the... More
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Call For Proposals “Transing Cinema and Media Studies” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies In Focus Section Edited by Cáel M. Keegan (Grand Valley State University, he/him) and Laura Horak (Carleton University, she/her) In a recent JCMS In Focus on “Cripping Cinema and Media Studies” (2019) Elizabeth Elcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick... More
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Transgender Media Lab PhD Fellowship Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Application deadline: February 1, 2020 PhD program start: September 2020 Media creates horizons of possibility that in turn shape reality. When transgender people create audiovisual media, rather than simply being represented in it, their worldmaking helps change our... More
Despite recent attention to representations of trans people in Canadian and U.S. media, media created by trans people is often overlooked. Film scholars, women’s and gender studies scholars, and the mainstream media have focused on a small number of well-known, predominantly cis-authored films like Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and The Danish... More
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