Talia C. Johnson

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Category Archives: Trans in Media

Transgender vs Transsexual

Posted on 2017/07/31 by Talia Johnson — Leave a reply

Transgender and Transsexual, two words that have been, and are used to describe people who medically transition. Two terms that have been, and continue to be loaded with baggage. Two Continue Reading →

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Trapped in a Standard Narrative: The ‘Wrong Body’

Posted on 2017/02/01 by Talia Johnson — 1 Comment ↓

Yesterday in a moment of frustration I said to my friend Cait, “I’m so tired of the ‘trapped in the wrong body’ thing.” Her reply, “Then get out of the Continue Reading →

Posted in Trans in Media, Transition | 1 Comment ↓

A Response to Recent Media Coverage of Care for Trans Children

Posted on 2017/01/16 by Talia Johnson — Leave a reply

This past week the BBC aired a documentary titled, “Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?” In addition to this the National Post published a column and an op-ed that questioned whether Continue Reading →

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(Re) Assignment of a Trope

Posted on 2016/09/16 by Talia Johnson — Leave a reply

There has been quite a bit of discussion about the movie (Re) Assignment in which a hit-man is “turned into a woman” using various surgeries and medical interventions. There is Continue Reading →

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Harmful Tropes and Aggressions

Posted on 2014/01/26 by Talia Johnson — 2 Comments ↓

This week we saw, in all its painful glory, the arrest of Justin Bieber. As is the nature of the Internet a number of memes and jokes quickly started making Continue Reading →

Posted in Family, Life, Trans in Media, Transition | 2 Comments ↓

Review: Major Crimes episode, “Boys Will Be Boys”

Posted on 2013/07/27 by Talia Johnson — Leave a reply

On July 15th I was visiting with a friend and she introduced me to the television show Major Crimes,  the plot of the show that aired that day was one Continue Reading →

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