This study explored representation of lead and supporting transgender characters in nine
US scripted television dramas and comedies aired 2008–2014. Employing qualitative …

Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about
sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so …

This article documents and assesses sourcing patterns used by US journalists in news
stories about gender diversity. These patterns reveal the degree to which transgender …

In this article, we explore how the concepts of listening and voice influence trans
communication and how communicators give voice to their identities and lived experiences …

This article analyses the discursive representations of trans people in 15,901 mainstream
Swedish newspaper articles between 2000 and 2017 using topic modelling and critical …

This chapter explores representations of gender-variant identities in global media, analyzing
the ambivalent tension between the “Westernization” of endogenous identity categories and …

This roundtable began as the first panel of the International Communication Association
dedicated exclusively to transgender studies. The articles of the panel investigated various …

The term 'sexual citizenship'was largely developed in the Anglophone capitalist liberal
democracies of the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The concept is thus …

How to handle gender with machine learning is a controversial topic. A growing critical body
of research brought attention to the numerous issues transgender communities face with the …

Reframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s
to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an …