"The Trans Tipping Point": Assessing Contemporary Transgender Visibility in Alternative and Mainstream Media

This thesis seeks to develop a rubric for the assessment of recent transgender visibility across disparate media spaces. The rubric is based upon the critiques of transgender studies scholars and transgender activists on transgender representation in media. The rubric aims to address the most salient issues found in contemporary transgender representation and guide its user toward identifying more inclusive forms of transgender visibility that resist stereotypes. The rubric is both a resource for the analysis of transgender visibility as well as the production of media that focuses upon or includes transgender subjects.

Department dc:contributor.department

Cultural Studies

Author dc:creator

• Konst, Emma

Advisors dc:contributor.supervisor

• MacDonald, Eleanor
• Salah, Patricia

• Transgender
• Queer Visibility
• Representation
• Alternative Media
• Mainstream Media

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1974/24307

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:queensu.scholaris.ca:1974/24307