Abstract
The article engages with trans male video blogs on YouTube, framing them as living
archives that offer unique opportunities to access and share embodied trans knowledges—which have previously been limited or inaccessible—such as information about and visual accounts of medical transitioning processes. It is argued that archiving one’s transition works through a kind of performative documentation, partly documenting and partly instantiating the transformation by tracking and tracing the bodily changes. Testosterone figures as the transformative technology, while
the upper body becomes the privileged site of self-fashioning. YouTube hereby offers an alternative and empowering archive of how trans male bodies could look, while its cumulative effects also play a significant role in determining how they should look.
archives that offer unique opportunities to access and share embodied trans knowledges—which have previously been limited or inaccessible—such as information about and visual accounts of medical transitioning processes. It is argued that archiving one’s transition works through a kind of performative documentation, partly documenting and partly instantiating the transformation by tracking and tracing the bodily changes. Testosterone figures as the transformative technology, while
the upper body becomes the privileged site of self-fashioning. YouTube hereby offers an alternative and empowering archive of how trans male bodies could look, while its cumulative effects also play a significant role in determining how they should look.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | TSQ. Transgender Studies Quarterly |
| Vol/bind | 2 |
| Udgave nummer | 4 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 701-709 |
| Antal sider | 9 |
| ISSN | 2328-9252 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2015 |
Emneord
- YouTube
- Vlogging
- Testosterone
- Køn
- Transkønnet
- Virtuel etnografi