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Transgender Media Studies Editor’S Introduction Roxanne Samer Transgender Media Studies Editor’s Introduction Transgender media studies is a burgeoning field. trans women as they made their way across the As a member of the Queer Caucus Board at the US. At the same time, Amazon’s Transparent Society of Cinema and Media Studies, over the last (2014-present) was gaining critical acclaim. In three years I have witnessed a rise in the requests the series, self-declared feminist showrunner Jill for trans media panel sponsorship. Nonetheless, Soloway claimed to deploy a “female gaze” when in spring 2016 when I proposed this special issue, depicting Maura Pfefferman, a character based on the publication of such scholarship did not appear her own trans parent.2 I conceived of this issue as a to be aggregating in any particular place. By 2016 site wherein this eruption of transgender characters Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ) had been and stories as well as popular discourse around such publishing incredible work in the broader field trans representations could receive greater historical of transgender studies for two years, and while contextualization and deeper theorization. each issue promised another essay or two on the In my CFP, I asked, “How have race, sexuality, subject, organizing an entire issue on transgender and class informed the materialization of these media did not seem to be a priority. No cinema representations and their circulation? What are and media studies journal appeared poised to their genealogies and how has transgender media pick up the mantle either. And yet, every month changed over the course of the twentieth and journalists waxed on about the social and cultural twenty-first centuries?”3 I also declared an interest significance of our “transgender tipping point,”1 in publishing contributions “devoted to the study of and Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner or another trans the work of lesser-known transgender media artists” celebrity appeared on a different magazine cover, and those about “the spaces that have been created using their fame to raise awareness of trans lives. within media or media cultures for genderqueer Cox, who rose to fame in her performance as the folks who live outside of the binary as well as Black trans imprisoned woman and prison stylist how the stakes of visibility politics differ for trans Sophia Burset in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black women and trans men.”4 While the submissions I (2013-present), soon went on to produce Free Cece received touched on some of these questions more (2016), Jacqueline Gares’ documentary about Cece consistently or thoroughly than others, the resulting McDonald, who was charged with second-degree journal issue is one that I am proud to say tackles murder after defending herself when attacked concerns regarding transgender representation by a group of transphobic white supremacists. As in discerning and caring ways consistent with the film documents, McDonald eventually served the inquiry of my initial call. In today’s popular prison time for a lighter sentence, thanks to the media culture, trans women are much more visible international movement that formed around her than trans men, which means a greater public case. After coming out on a special edition of familiarity with their experiences and stories but 20/20 in April 2015, Jenner, already entangled also greater risk of violent backlash.5 Here I have in the Kardashian reality series franchise, starred published essays that analyze transfeminine and in her own E! reality series, I Am Cait (2015-16), transmasculine media, sometimes alongside each taking a road trip during the second season with other, and make arguments with such subjects’ well- friends Kate Bornstein, Jennifer Boylan, and others, being in mind. Contributors to the issue include in which they discussed their different politics as trans men, trans women, non-binary people, and Transgender Media 5 Roxanne Samer, editor, Spectator 37:2 (Fall 2017): 5-8. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION others, like myself, who consider themselves queer how identification and emotion in horror films are cisgender allies. Together, we study the activist work structured through cisnormative ideology. of both some of the most celebrated trans celebrities In “Theorizing 21st Century Transgender and the less widely known trans youth on YouTube; Self-Representation,” three scholars study the cisnormativity across media histories; and our own recent contributions of trans celebrities to trans affective relations to gender nonconforming or discourse of the current media moment. Increasing gender variant filmmakers, actors, and characters, visibility, they reveal, need not (and often does not) previously unstudied under the rubric of “trans.” mean increasing acceptance or understanding on I have organized the issue into three sections: the part of cisgender publics but can nonetheless “Transgender Media Archives,” “Theorizing 21st provide opportunities for critical intervention. Eliza Century Transgender Self-Representation,” and Steinbock analyzes two transmedial moments from “Sense8: A Roundtable.” early 2014, in which Laverne Cox and Janet Mock In “Transgender Media Archives,” five scholars made important interventions in the stigmatization write transgender media histories that carefully surrounding contemporary transgender bodies and take into consideration the present from which lives in the US. By confronting Katie Couric and they write and contextualize the terms they use, Piers Morgan, these two Black trans celebrities, the media they study, and their locations within Steinbock argues, following W.E.B. Du Bois, did the histories of their particular mediums, genres, the critical work of calling attention to the media’s and genders. First, Laura Horak offers a survey of framing of trans people as a problem. Steinbock the rich and complex history of trans and gender and scholars from the first section analyze the variant filmmaking from the beginning of cinema pervasiveness of cisnormativity, as media histories, to the present, while also making room for those genres, and platforms continually fail to imagine untraceable gender variant filmmakers who worked or image the world from perspectives wherein in film and television without their gender history gender does not align with sex as assigned at becoming known and others who made home birth. Meanwhile, in her essay Rachel Reinke movies now lost to history. Her essay serves as a examines the contributions of YouTuber database of sorts that she invites transgender media AchillesGuideToTheGalaxy as exemplary of the studies scholars to add to and flesh out in the years work of Black, brown, poor, and disabled trans youth ahead. She is in the process of creating an online, who create spaces to resist transnormativity. While collaborative research portal devoted to trans and images of white, gender normative transgender youth gender variant filmmakers for this purpose. Next, are becoming increasingly mobilized in advertising Tom Sapsford analyzes the reality effect created by campaigns’ promotions of “diversity,” Reinke the erotic hybridity of genres, mediums, and genders examines how those whose gender expressions in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The do not align with white heteronormative national Tales of Hoffmann (1950-1) before arguing that ideals use YouTube to document and critique their Hoffmann’s valet Nicklaus (acted by Pamela Brown recurring experiences of oppression at the hands of and sung by Monica Sinclair) offers a rare mid- state and medical institutions. Finally, John Musser century character who takes joy in their hybridity studies pop singer Nomi Ruiz’s contribution to and difference. In the third essay, Quinlan Miller Nicola Formichetti’s pornographic commercial for and Erica Rand author a tribute to actor Ann B. the Mugler fashion house, Brothers of Arcadia (2011), Davis of The Bob Cummings Show (NBC/CBS arguing that Ruiz resists the typical fetishization 1955-59) and The Brady Bunch (ABC 1969-1974). of the transfeminine body in pornography, instead In conversation, they study how Davis’ performances creating new possibilities for trans subjectivity draw out dimensions of gender normativities and through a deliberate staging of the sublime. cisnormativities as well as their own varied attraction In “Sense8: A Roundtable,” eight scholars, to Davis, which in turn prompts critical reflections myself included, think through key questions on how queer desires create and shape trans archives. regarding one of today’s most impressive trans- Finally, Lucy J. Miller takes the cult film Sleepaway produced mainstream media productions, Lana Camp (1983) as a case study in which she examines and Lilly Wachowski’s Netflix series Sense8, which 6 FALL 2017 SAMER has received surprisingly little critical attention. struggles as well as unite in order to evade their The Wachowskis are most well known for the shared enemy, Sense8 often rushes through their work they made prior to coming out publicly as negotiations of difference. Will, the cop in Chicago, trans, including Bound (1996), The Matrix trilogy for example, somehow instantaneously knows how (1999-2003), V for Vendetta (2005), and Cloud to not be transphobic, correcting Nomi’s mother Atlas (2012).6 In Sense8, the filmmakers’ first foray when she misgenders her daughter before spending into television, Lana and Lilly teamed up with substantial time with Nomi himself. At the same J. Michael Straczynski to create a transnational time, we see in the series a glimmer of the kind of vision of global connectivity and resistance with a global utopian envisioning very much needed in trans protagonist named Nomi Marks, played by our ceaselessly dystopian present. Transparent has Jamie Clayton, who is herself trans. While many been given the opportunity to grow as a creative have questioned cisgender Jill Soloway’s direction enterprise, making more room for trans directors, of Transparent as well as her casting of a cisgender actors, and other team members and arguably male actor, Jeffrey Tambor, to play Maura, very little creating more robust narratives with each additional critical attention has turned to the Wachowskis and season. Those of us contributing to this roundtable Clayton.
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