Since its debut in 2010, HBO’s Game of Thrones has attracted a significant amount of criticism and celebration.

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I SPIT ON YOUR THRONE: THE RAPE-REVENGE OF SANSA STARK

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Editors: Dr. Liora Elias (University of Minnesota, USA); Dr. Raechel
Tiffe (Independent Scholar)

Info for abstracts: Deadline September 29th; 250 word abstract --
include name, title and affiliation

**Project:** The last decade has brought changes for transgender people
both on and off television. Just a decade ago, transgender people almost
exclusively appeared on television as jokes, victims, or sex workers,
almost always as one-dimensional, and almost entirely performed by
cisgender actors. Today, we see the introduction of complex transgender
characters, some of whom are played by transgender actors, many of whom
have love interests, "good" jobs, and empathetic storylines.

This edited collection will  provide a critical representational
analysis of historical and contemporary prominent transgender characters
on narrative television. We see these  representations as no longer so
easily categorized as "good" or "bad." Instead, we argue that
historically oppressive tropes exist alongside and within more
progressive approaches to trans characters. Like the current climate
outside television, trans progress does not preclude the existence of
trans discrimination. Thus, we argue that these analyses are important
for what they tell us about both progress and stagnancy.

We desire to engage a number of extra-textual examples to demonstrate
the importance of utilizing non-television platforms to better
understand the role of televisual texts and general audience engagement
with those texts. Finally, we will address  the future of trans
representation as related to the handful of reality television programs
about transgender people, such as *I am Cait* and *I am Jazz*.

A good match for this project will be topics that address:

- Histories/tropes/trends/representations of trans characters on
  television
- The intersections of class/race/gender/sexuality/ability and trans
  identities on television
- Trans bodies played by CIS bodies on television
- The celebrity trans identity and character
- Trans lived realities in relation to television depictions
- Reality television and trans identities
- Critical approaches to trans identities as displayed on television
- The intersection of post-gay television and trans identities
- Television depictions of non-western or native genders (two-spirit,
  muxes, hijra, etc)
- Representations of non-binary or gender nonconforming people and
  characters
- How social media influences audience perception of transgender people
  on television
- The role of transgender media producers (directors, writers, etc.)
- Influence of transgender characters on transgender audiences
- Updates on Jack Halberstam's "transgender look," as applied to
  contemporary television
- Representations of transgender people and sex/sexuality

[Send abstracts to <elia0039@umn.edu> and <raecheltiffe@gmail.com> by
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Editors: Dr. Liora Elias (University of Minnesota, USA); Dr. Raechel Tiffe (Independent Scholar) Info for abstracts: Deadline September 29th; 250 word abstract – include name, title and affiliation
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The last decade has brought changes for transgender people both on and off television.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

I SPIT ON YOUR THRONE: THE RAPE-REVENGE OF SANSA STARK

Call for contributions “Transgender Representation on Television” (Edited Collection, working title). Deadline: Sept 29, 2017.