Monday (Mar 10) – Gender, Sex, & Sexuality in Media
- Reading: 2024 study on media representation from the Geena Davis Institute.
- Reading: Walker Caplan, “Read the 1985 Comic Strip That Inspired the Bechdel Test,” Literary Hub, 13 Sep 2021.
- In-class: Watch excerpt from Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020).
Wednesday (Mar 12) – Quiz Day
- Quiz #2 (on Weeks 5-9) – Click here for the Quiz #2 Review Guide.
KEY TERMS FOR THIS WEEK: gender, sex, sexual orientation, representation, trans, queer, visibility
For further reading & research:
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ.
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Glossary of Terms: Transgender.
- Sovereign Syre, “PORN’S NEWEST #METOO CAMPAIGN IS FIGHTING TO BE ITS LAST,” Mel Magazine, June 2020.
- Mark Blankenship’s analysis of female producers in the history of the Hot 100 chart, Twitter, 15 Feb 2020.
- Michael Ordoña, “How Many Female Directors Have the Recent Best Actor Oscar Nominees Worked With?,” Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb 2020.
- This Changes Everything (2019), via Netflix.
- Mariah Cooper, “GLAAD film report spotlights zero trans representation in major studio films,” Washington Blade, 23 May 2019.
- Colette Arrand, “All I Want to See Is Trans Mediocrity on TV,” Them, 14 Mar 2019.
- Helena Bassil-Morozow, “Frozen II: Return of the Strong Female Characters That Little Girls Need to See,” The Conversation, 18 Feb 2019.
- Mitchell Kuga, “An Intimate View Into the Lives of Transgender Elders,” them., 7 Sept 2018.
- Carson Cook, “A content analysis of LGBT representation on broadcast and streaming television,” B.A. Honors Thesis, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2018.
- “New Study Shows A Grave Lack Of Gender Diversity In The Music Industry,” NPR, 26 Jan 2018.
- Monica Miller, Jessica Rauch and Tatyana Kaplan, “Gender Differences in Movie Superheroes’ Roles, Appearances, and Violence,” ADA #10, 2016.
- Kay Siedler, “Transqueer Representations and How We Educate,” Journal of LGBT Youth, Vol. 7 (2010): 320–345.
- Charlie Jane Anders, “Why The Bechdel Test Is More Important Than You Realize,” io9, June 4, 2014.