[Commlist] Trans Celebrity Online Symposium

You are warmly invited to next week's Trans Celebrity Online Symposium.

Wednesday 11th September 9.15am - 4.35pm BST (note slightly later end 
time than previously scheduled).

Tickets are free, register here. 
https://brookes.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WnpecBfERpG3IvBUO-HMeg 
<https://brookes.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WnpecBfERpG3IvBUO-HMeg>

Speakers:
*Guo Jia & Huei-Ling Chen* (she/her) University of Sydney (AU) 'A Case 
Study of a Gender-diverse Celebrity Statesperson: On Audrey Tang’s 
Political Radicalness and Taiwan’s Global Image'
*Sarah Scales & Joanna McIntyre *(she/her) Swinburne University, 
Mebourne (AU) '“I did not come out of the cupboard under the stairs for 
this”: Affective trans microcelebrity and fan responses to JK Rowling’s 
celebrified transphobia'
*Tristan Venturi* (he/him) Bologna (IT) '“I'm known as Ken but inside 
I've always felt like Barbie”: Wrong body discourse
and transgender beauty politics in televised accounts of Jessica Alves’ 
transition'
*Kateřina Turková* et al (she/her) Charles University Prague (CZ) 
'Celebrification of transgender sportswomen through critical media 
coverage: The first step towards public acceptance in Visegrád Group 
countries'
*Hannah Yelin *(she/her) Oxford Brookes University (UK) 'The gendering 
of power and visibility as understood by trans and nonbinary youth 
imagining their own futures'
*Alon Lischinsky* (they/them) Oxford Brookes University (UK 'Involuntary 
celebrity: the outing of Christine Jorgensen'
*Martín Ponti *(he/him) Washington College (US) 'TransExploitation: 
Travesti celebrities on Argentine Daytime Realities'
*Ellie Homant *(she/her) Cornell (US) 'The co-creation of online 
celebrity: a case study of Nikkie de Jager'
*Heng Wang *(they/she) University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 
'Dis/Reappearing: Trans Celebrity Autobiography and Neoliberal Politics 
of (In)Visibility in Postsocialist China'

Contact: Hannah Yelin <(hannahyelin /at/ YAHOO.CO.UK)>
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