In a media landscape that often hypersexualizes or erases trans people, trans filmmakers are reshaping stories of desire, intimacy, and representation by reimagining genre conventions across film and media.
Join Prof. Christine Choi (English) for a Women’s History Month event featuring Dr. Laura Horak, who will present work from her new book, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (University of California Press, 2026), a first-of-its-kind introduction to cinema by trans creators.
About the speaker: Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She is author of the new book Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (University of California 2026) and Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers 2016) and co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022).
Hosted by: Hostos Women’s and Gender Studies Program (https://wgshostos.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) with the support of the Educating for Diversity: Ms. MacKenzie Scott’s Gift President’s Initiative
Watch the Her Story web series before the talk! https://www.youtube.com/c/herstoryshow/
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