All entries for November 2014

Sexual Cultures Conference – April 2015

I will be a keynote panelist at next year's Onscenity Sexual Cultures Conference, speaking about the intersection of trans academia and activism.

The conference, co-hosted by the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, and the Onscenity Research Network will take place on April 8-10 2015 at the University of Sunderland London Campus, London, UK.

Further information can be found here.

: 23 Nov 2014 20:33 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Revolt #7

We're running the next Revolt in a couple of weeks - at Tin Music and Arts on Saturday 29th November. It's going to be full of joy!

There is a Facebook event page here.

: 16 Nov 2014 10:48 |  Tags: Feminism Punk Rock |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

No, I will not help Sundog make a documentary on trans regret

Recently I received an unsolicited email in my work account from an employee of Sundog Pictures. An excerpt follows:

I’m currently working on an idea alongside Channel 4 following transgender individuals who have come to regret their sex changes and are keen to undergo further treatment / operations to reverse the change. The doc will be insightful and sensitive and will look at the way in which transgender individuals are treated in society and whether the process before someone is permitted an operation is robust enough.

I’m currently looking for real life cases to include in my pitch document and was wondering whether you might be able to recommend people I could speak to, or places I could contact to find individuals who are currently thinking about a reverse sex change. Any help would be really appreciated.

Given the email account used, I feel that I can safely assume that I was contacted because of my academic work, which looks at discourses of trans healthcare provision. Sundog seem to hope that I will (without compensation) draw upon my community contacts and research findings to recommend participants for their television programme.

I couldn’t think of anything more inappropriate.

There’s a lot to be said about research ethics and a duty of care towards participants, but plenty has been written about that elsewhere (the BSA Statement of Ethical Practice offers a decent broad overview). So in this post I focus on the huge problems that come with the proposed topic of the documentary: that of trans “regret”.

>>>Read more at Trans Activist Takes On World.

: 15 Nov 2014 12:26 |  Tags: Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem