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

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

QTC Book Event series invites you to join an exciting event:

📚📍 May 1, Friday at 1:00 PM EST:
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social
Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

Registration: us05web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hope to see you all there!

Spectacle or support? The complicated visibility of trans youth in film & TV - Queerty The following is an excerpt from the new book "Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds" by Laura Horak and available now from University of California Press.

Please enjoy this great excerpt of TRANS CINEMA— by @laurah.bsky.social and out now!—that appeared on @queerty.com yesterday. www.queerty.com/spectacle-or...

Trans Cinema Doesn’t Just Improve Visibility—It Imagines Better Worlds Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

Some thoughts on this Trans Day of Visibility www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t... #TDOV @ucpress.bsky.social

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"

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"

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

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.

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...

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

Members of the TMP team holding a pink banner with the Transgender Media Portal name and trans symbol logo at the 2024 Ottawa Trans March. On top of the image is the text “Dollar-for-dollar matching this Giving Tuesday!”

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...

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!”

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!

Here's something concrete you can do for #TDOR -- Donate a pizza (if not trans) or eat a pizza (if trans)! Thanks to Syrus Marcus Ware for organizing. www.gofundme.com/f/trans-pizz...

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!)

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.

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...

New book from our project director!

So many great LGBTQ history accounts on Bluesky! Highly recommend @transmediaportl.bsky.social, @transgenderarchive.bsky.social, @makinggayhistory.bsky.social, @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social, @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social & @leatherarchives.bsky.social!

go.bsky.app/Ek5HJs9

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…

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

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

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?...

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

Logo for Transgender Media Portal. TransgenderMediaPortal.org Discover film and videos made by trans, Two-spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists on Turtle island.

www.transgendermediaportal.org

Left: Red Buffalo Nova Weipert. Center: NapéWastéWin Schützer. Right: Raven Two Feathers

Left: image of Theo Jean Cuthand. Center: Raven Davis. Right: Jamie John.

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.

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

Poster: TRANSMEDIATIONS. Screening to be followed by a discussion. Film poster for Bound with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly looking hot and drying out dollar bills on a clothes line. Wednesday, April 2, 2025 @ 5PM. Carleton University, St. Patrick's Building, @SP100. Questions? Contact: AVRC@carleton.ca

Ottawans!

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.

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.

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.

Ottawans! Check out this book talk on March 11!

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.

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

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.

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.”

Which is on Bluesky @transmediaportl.bsky.social!

No problem!

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.

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