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Abstract
Digital media is often understood as the primary platform to open up new social worlds for transgender men. The plethora of information from DIY videos on testosterone injections to daily transition vlogs has seen transgender men creating, developing, and curating themselves on digital platforms. This study focuses on the representation of Hong Kong trans men on digital media. The ongoing COVID pandemic has conjured up a wide array of cultural imaginations on the end of the world. Hong Kong has also long collected global imaginations of dystopia, cyberpunk, and science fiction. Under this larger context, I draw upon McKenzie and Patulny’s (2021) notion of dystopia as “a process, a practice, a method of understanding and critiquing” to examine dystopian emotions among Hong Kong trans men through digital ethnographic fieldwork on Instagram and face-to-face in-depth interviews in 2020–2021. I argue that dystopia beliefs lay the groundwork for Insta-emotions to emerge, in overt and subversive ways, that speak to the resilience of transgender men.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2535-2553 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | International Journal of Communication |
Volume | 17 |
Early online date | Mar 2023 |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 (Denise Tse-Shang Tang). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
- transmen
- Chinese transgender men
- dystopian emotions
- shame
- feelings
- social media
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Being Trans and Masculine: A Comparative Ethnography of Trans Men in Bangkok and Hong Kong (跨性別與男性氣概:曼谷與香港跨性別男性之比較民族誌)
TANG, T. S. D. (PI) & FUHRMANN, A. (CoI)
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Grant Research