Transgender Youth Today: Inspired by Laverne Cox

Brittney Kenney

Laverne Cox and OITNB

Kohan, J. (Producer). 2013-2014. “Lesbian Request Denied” Orange Is The New Black. Episode 3. Season 1. Retrieved from http:// www.netflix.com/

Steinmetz, Katy. "The Transgender Tipping Point." TIME Magazine. Jun. 2014.

Trends

• Mainstream as Normalization• What’s really happening with today’s transgender youth?

"Victims or Villains: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television." GLAAD. Web.

Doan, Petra L. 2007. “Queers in the American City: Transgendered Perceptions of Urban Space.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 14 (1): 57–74.

Person, and Vanity Fair Magazine. "Caitlyn Jenner: The Full Story." Vanity Fair. July 2015. Web

Research Done Right

• Laverne Cox and OITNB• “John” FTM Trans teenager interviews• “Growing Up Trans” Documentary• Class and Outside Readings

Fink, Marty and Miller, Quinn. 2013. Trans media moments: Tumblr, 2011–2013. Television & New Media. 23 October 2013

Navasky, Miri and O'Connor, Karen. 2015. “Growing Up Trans”. PBS. Frontline. Stryker, Susan. 2008. “Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity.” Radical History Review, 100: 144–57.

Money Rules the World

• Costs of Transitioning• Buying the “Pretty” face

Perks of the Internet

TUMBLR. Lioninamousesuit. 2015

Related to the Readings

• Transhistory• Maggie Nelson• Kate Bornstein• Normalizing the transition

Bornstein, Kate. 2013. Selections from A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today. New York: Beacon Press.

Nelson, Maggie. 2015. Selections from The Argonauts. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press.

Stryker, Susan. 2008. “Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity.” Radical History Review, 100: 144–57.

Now What?

• Media Interpretations• Tumblr and the Internet• Queer Spaces

Doan, Petra L. 2007. “Queers in the American City: Transgendered Perceptions of Urban Space.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 14 (1): 57–74.

Thank you Laverne

• Laverne Cox and OITNB• The Media • Money• The Internet