I’m working on a film question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
“Remembering the Golden Age of the Queer Internet,” Sofia Barrett-Ibarria (2018)
“Trans Cultures Online,” Avery Dame-Griff (2020)
“Tumblr Was a Trans Technology,” Oliver L. Haimson, Avery Dame-Griff, Elias Capello & Zahari
Richter (2021)
1. In his article “Trans Cultures Online,” what are some of the reasons that Dame-Griff gives for
why online spaces have been important for transgender people and communities?
[Place your response here]
2. Dame-Griff writes that “the context nature of ‘adult’ content, as well as Tumblr’s reliance on
automated content filtering, puts transgender users at risk of being filtered out of existence” (5).
What does this mean? How does it relate to topics we’ve discussed in other weeks of our course.
[Place your response here]
3. In their article “Tumblr was a Trans Technology,” what are some of the characteristics that
Haimson et al. say made Tumblr particularly well-suited to the needs of trans users?
[Place your response here]
4. What is Haimson et al.’s idea of the “trans technology”? What do they say the characteristics of
a trans technology would be?
[Place your response here]
