We’re so done with scary trans villains and monsters – or are we? Cáel Keegan explains why we might be able to learn lessons about trans liberation from Buffalo Bill and why The Silence of the Lambs, upon its release, was actually protested for homophobia. Cáel speaks about transfixing and spellbinding media, from The Matrix to Buffy to video games. Dark Willow makes an appearance. Not to be missed.
References:
Keegan, Cáel M. Lana and Lilly Wachowski. University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Keegan, Cáel M. "Emptying the future: Queer melodramatics and negative utopia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 1.1 (2016): 9-22.
Keegan, Cáel M. "Getting disciplined: What’s trans* about queer studies now?." Journal of homosexuality 67.3 (2020): 384-397.
Keegan, Cáel M., Laura Horak, and Eliza Steinbock. "Cinematic/trans*/bodies now (and then, and to come)." Somatechnics 8.1 (2018): 1-13.
Orange is the New Black
The Matrix
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal Lecter
Jodie Foster
Homonormativity
Mads Mikkelsen
Anthony Hopkins
Will Graham
Buffalo Bill
Dark Willow
Soldier’s Girl
Hil Malatino
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism
Judith Butler’s Panicked Mimesis
McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory
Work in Progress
Abby McEnany
Theo Germaine
They/Them
Edie Fake’s Gaylord Phoenix
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