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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Please share! Violet Institute 2026 Criticism Residency The question: what is the contemporary trans canon? Applications due August 31, 2026 theviolet.org/criticism-re...

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Criticism Residency — Violet Institute

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today! www.ucpress.edu/books/trans-... (30% off UCPSAVE30) www.dukeupress.edu/melodrama-as... (30% of E26MELOD) @transmediaportl.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca

Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Ticket giveaway! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Repost to be entered into a drawing for a free ticket to this screening. Winners notified on Friday. For more about the event: www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-...

Poster with four people dressed like Pat from SNL dancing on a beach. Text reads "Film screening & talk with Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026) WE ARE PAT 2025 / 92 minutes / USA Director: Rowan Haber Writer: Rowan Haber, Hannah Buck Saturday, March 14h 4:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery iFFo"

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If you're in Ottawa, come to our screening on Saturday, March 14th! After the movie, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social will be talking with Tom McSorley about her new book, TRANS CINEMA: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026)! www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-... @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Happy holiday from the TMP! Share the joy by dedicating your donation to a loved one. Your dedicated donation can also be accompanied with a personalized eCard! futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su... See our new Letterboxd watchlist of Trans Films for the Holidays: letterboxd.com/transmediapo...

An illustrated pink ribbon wraps around an image of two Transgender Media Lab members presenting a talk on trans film in a theatre. The screen behind them shows a collage of trans film posters, where the titles Wildness, Something must Break, Lingua Franca, Strong Island, and Her Story are visible. On top of the image is the text “Share the joy, support trans+ stories.” Under the ribbon is a gift tag that reads “Your donation will be matched!”

Screenshot of a watchlist titled "Trans Films to Watch Over the Holidays" on the Transgender Media Portal's Letterboxd page.

Screenshot of the Transgender Media Portal's Future Funder page with "Dedicate this donation" selected with "Yes, please" box. Under this is another checkbox titled "Dedication type" with "In honour of" selected. Honouree details are empty and the following checkbox reads "Would you like to notify anyone of your donation" with "Yes, send an eCard" selected. Under this checkbox are open text fields for an optional personalized message and contact information.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We’re almost 60% there! Help us go all the way! futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Fight trans invisibility this Giving Tuesday! The Transgender Media Portal is a free online database made and maintained by a lab of student scholars—and we need your help. Your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar! Donate today at futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Help fund a trans student researcher this Giving Tuesday—all donations to the TMP will be MATCHED, dollar for dollar! Your donation will support Maddie add new, linked data to the Portal, including info about festivals, screenings, funding, archives, and distributors. Go to our profile to donate!

Maddie Murakami, a young trans man with light skin, a moustache, and long, curly black hair, smiles up at the camera from his laptop while sitting on an orange couch. On top of the image is the text “Share with the TMP this Giving Tuesday!”

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This was so fantastic! Lined up beautifully with some of the issues we were discussing in my Queer and Trans Art HIstories class so I might have to add it to the "Dr. R. has a problem" pile on our CMS (which already has work by @laurah.bsky.social and Eva Hayward in it!)

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Next week! Thursday at 6:30PM ET on Zoom. Free! Open to all! In English with simultaneous French interpretation. Listen to Eva Hayward and @laurah.bsky.social chat about the artist Erica Rutherford and her work, as well as trans rights today. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

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In Conversation with Eva Hayward

Join Eva Hayward, a gender studies scholar at the University of New Mexico, in conversation with Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Someone should really put together a program of the sf-related shorts on the @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Every one of them I've watched so far is great! I especially loved Atlantic is a Sea of Bones (Tourmaline, 2017): vimeo.com/245608125

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Atlantic is a Sea of Bones by Tourmaline for Day With(out) Art 2017

Tourmaline, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017 Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2017, ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, curated by Erin Christovale…

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tonight I'll be observing the International Transgender Day of Visibility by watching a few of the 26 science fiction films on the @transmediaportl.bsky.social: www.transgendermediaportal.org/search.html?...

Image from Trans-Neptune (or The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut) (2006)

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imagineNATIVE @imaginenative.org · 31/03/2025

March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility! We’re partnering with @transmediaportl.bsky.social to spotlight Indigenous artists from the Transgender Media Portal. 🏳️‍⚧️ Discover and support trans, Two-Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming creators. Learn more at: TransgenderMediaPortal.org

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

For Transgender Day of Visibility we’re teaming up with imagineNATIVE to spotlight Indigenous artists. Explore, support, and share their work to uplift these powerful voices! Share your favourite Indigequeer films in the comments. 🌈 #TDOV #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #IndigenousFilmmakers

On left: We've always been here on a background of orange words for various Indigenous gender identities. Center: image of AAlec Butler. Right: image of Kay Chan.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

As a proud community partner and co-presenter at the Canadian Film Fest, we’re excited to support Larry (They/Them), playing on Tuesday, March 25 at 1:00 pm at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Theatre Toronto. For ticket information go to www.canfilmfest.ca.

Movie poster with title Larry (They/Them). A film by Catherine Legault. a light-skinned person with long died pink red and yellow hair sits and looks at the cmaera. We see their colorful leg tattoo.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ottawans! Check out this book talk on March 11!

Trans Technologies with Oliver Haimson. Tuesday, March 11 at 1PM. Richdraft 4400. Free. All welcome.

Drawing from interviews with over 100 creators of trans technology, this talk examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology, and trans technology’s possibilities, limitations, and future prospects.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@carletonu.bsky.social students! Come learn about the Trans Media Portal at this Friday's event! Tickets at www.instagram.com/cusagsrc/

Flowers and butterflies against a pink background. Text: Rainbow Exhibit @ Roosters (4th floor Nideyinan) *Support community artwork & performances by local artists! *Zine Making Station! *Open Mic! Tickets $4+ link in bio! Tutorial in another post. February 7th, 8-10pm. Doors Open 7:45.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The TMP has been awarded the ASA's DH Caucus Digital Project Prize! “The committee was impressed by the level of collaboration, methodological transparency, and thoughtful policies. In both content and practice, the TMP is truly a model for other projects and initiatives.”

Gold trophy against a golden background with confetti. Text reads: WE DID IT! American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus Project Prize 2024 Transgender Media Portal.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Trans filmmaking took off in the 1990s! www.transgendermediaportal.org/search.html?...

White text--1990s--over a screen grab from the film Stonewall (1995). A Latina queen with long brown hair raises her arms. She wears a fabulous fake fur jacket.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Want to see some animation by trans filmmakers? www.transgendermediaportal.org/search.html?...

White text--animation--over a screenshot from Feeling Reserved: Alexus's Story. Drawings of a postcard of Saskatoon and four police officers in the snow.

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Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Check out Indigenous trans and Two Spirit filmmakers on the Transgender Media Portal! www.transgendermediaportal.org/search.html?...

White text--Indigenous Trans & Two Spirit Filmmakers--appears over a smiling portrait of Alec Butler, who has long bleached blond hair and a jean vest with tattoos peaking out.

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