“Angie was Our Sister:” Witnessing the Trans-Formation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography

Cram, Emily Dianne

doi:10.1080/00335630.2012.714899

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“…Queer texts, specifically trans imagery, including photography and other forms of digital mediation, have also been examined for visual politics and performative significance (Landau 2012;Cram 2012;Barnett 2015). Prior to the 2008 media attention given to Thomas Beatie, notions of pregnant men existed in "religious imagery, landmark European plays and literature, and in more recent self-help books, science fiction novels, Hollywood films, U.S. Television shows" (Landau 2012, 182).…”

Section: Visual Argument As Methods For Indexing Ideographsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

Cole¹,

Renegar²

2023

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This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism, and motherhood studies, and the chapters challenge the confines of biological parenting as heteronormative within the neo-liberal nuclear family. The contributors examine, how despite the diversity of parental relationships, many are excluded by the understanding of mothers biologically tied to their children. The volume seeks to expose the underpinnings of biological primacy and argues that 21st-century families and familial circumstances are ill-served by biological ideology. Topics include Re-Imagining Queer Black Motherhood, Chicana Feminist approaches to reproductive justice, the commercialization and medicalization of infertility, and ableism and motherhood.This is a unique and fascinating book suitable for students and scholars in gender studies, sexuality studies, communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

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Section: Visual Argument As Methods For Indexing Ideographsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

Cole¹,

Renegar²

2023

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“…|| CUT || Far too often, when trans people die, we are misgendered in obituaries, headstones, eulogies, genealogies, and other instruments of cishet mourning. Despite this, our queer bodies, our lived experiences, and our influence on other living beings are a vehement countermemory to these official histories, and telling these stories is a crucial act of witnessing (Cram 2012). || CUT || Thus, the specific ghosts generated by the memory machine that I'm interested in contain a (dis)embodied repertoire of queer counter-memory that must traverse the temporal and spatial distance between our plane of existence and theirs.…”

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We Other Fairies

Publius¹

2021

Intonations

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The ontology of characters onstage has long been a concern of performance theory, but the stakes of this hauntological question for the characters themselves is rarely addressed. How and why do queer beings both corporeal and ethereal inhabit the stage, and how do they communicate with us (and each other)? In the metatextual context of a general exam, as my writing style wanders between poetry and prose, research and reflection, I diarize my journey through this question and the ways ritual, performativity, and the carnivalesque function to bring forth these spirits onto our plane. I play off of Michel Foucault’s musings on “other Victorians” to demonstrate how plays such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Zanna, Don’t!; Shakespeare’s R&J, Three Mysterious Women; and Lenin’s Embalmers illustrate the queer politics of memory, performance, and affect. The theatrical memory machine restages queer genealogy in ways that traditional methods of memorialization in Western culture do not. Furthermore, the thin veil between realities during these performances allows queer utopic visions that entice performers, audiences, and characters alike.

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“…Historically, news coverage of transgender individuals has sexualized the transgender body, through a focus on sexual organs as the source of gender identity (Cram, 2012;Landau, 2012;Meyerowitz, 1998;Ryan, 2009;Schilt and Westbrook, 2009;Sloop, 2000;Squires and Brouwer, 2002). Positioning transgender individuals in relation to genitalia however, 'insults the dignity of the transgender individual' and diminishes transgender identity to a singular notion of postoperative transsexualism (Adams, 2015: 179).…”

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The man behind the woman: Publicity, celebrity public relations, and cultural intermediation

Ciszek

2020

Public Relations Inquiry

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Since the early 20th century, public relations has been implicated in the production and sustainment of celebrity. Celebrities rely on the work of publicists to strategically cast, produce, and place discourses within spheres of popular culture. Through an extended interview with Alan Nierob, publicist of transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner, this article is an analysis of celebrity public relations as a site of cultural intermediation. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notions of habitus, capital, and fields, this article sheds light on the practice of celebrity public relations to understand how publicists leverage cultural and social capital to construct legitimacy for their clients. This study contributes to a broader sociological understanding of celebrity public relations and opens new avenues for research in considering how publicity might translate into broader socio-political impacts.

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“Angie was Our Sister:” Witnessing the Trans-Formation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography

Cited by 19 publications

References 14 publications

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

We Other Fairies

The man behind the woman: Publicity, celebrity public relations, and cultural intermediation

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