Thread by @karlajstrand

Last session of the conference: Publishing Bodies, Building Worlds with Andrew Mazzaschi, Elizabeth Groeneveld, Sharon Lauricella, Melina Alice Moore. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Groeneveld: Discussing how trans people carved out space in lesbian media - On Our Backs helped foster trans-inclusion. Lou Sullivan wrote "Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser" and placed ads in the magazine. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Groeneveld: OOB began including more trans articles, etc. highlighting voices of trans men. Loren Cameron This Guy is Hot by Susan Stryker: In 1991 Cameron posed for photos for OOB and then took up photography himself. Important for trans self-representation. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Groeneveld: Question the politics of looking at trans bodies. Trans bodies are made into symbols or spectacles. They may choose to be spectacular themselves but they should represent their own bodies. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Groeneveld: Connections between Sullivan and Cameron in a lesbian sex magazine illustrates power of trans self-representation, desire to be seen as fully human is visible. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Sharon Lauricella is @AcademicBatgirl. Will discuss gender performance in real and online life. Academics should use Twitter. It builds community, encourages dialogue, where digital and offline worlds coincide. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Lauricella: Friendships grow on Twitter and in real life. There are still a lot of gender imbalances in academia; using Twitter offers support and builds camaraderie. Twitter encourages dialogue more than other social media platforms. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Lauricella: Facebook is for friends you already have and Twitter is for friends you should have. @AcademicBatgirl uses #academictwitter, #getyourmanuscriptout, #acwri. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

@AcademicBatgirl Lauricella: There are covert influences affecting your Twitter life - shame, judgement, etc. @AcademicBatgirl quit due to this type of shaming. When gender performance doesn't fit, women are silenced in this and many other ways. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Lauricella: Decided to say screw that and the white male cishet patriarchy that shamed her and went back to Twitter. Perform gender with integrity and authenticity. Mentoring and support is important part of performing gender authentically. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Lauricella: Gender performance is influenced by things we cannot see. Online, the backstory is even harder to find. Women take on a disproportionate percentage of academic community woes. Lauricella does this happily. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Lauricella: Academia is pervasive. It is a gas that will expand to fill the space you give it. So take care of yourselves and each other. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Will discuss practices of aesthetic resistance in Transvestia Magazine. With the mag, founder Virginia Prince sought to combat isolation in trans community, provide info and education. Welcomed reader submissions. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Also started TV Clipsheet - included cut and paste clippings of interest to trans community. Transvestia highlighted self-representation, artistry, reader inclusion. Challenged dominant models, images, narratives of transness. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Collage (cut and paste) as key to fashion and writing for Kate Bornstein. Recreating, remixing imagery for self-expression and community building. Online, Tumblr offers similar spaces for trans community. It's a continuation of collage, remixing. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: These mags offered trans subjects space, showed engagement with or (deconstruction of) with dominant narrative and allowed glimpses into real trans lives and resistances. Reached readers whose identities were in flux, as Prince's was. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Starting w Transvestia #5, Prince started a Girl of the Month feature, showing photos on cover and inside. Autobiographical narratives were included and necessary. Offered trans people opportunity to be elevated to cover girl glamour. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Photos help to archive and preserve identity. Transvestia's commitment to publishing photos and narratives offered visibility, resistance. Preserves first person account, visual representation. They counter/confirm existing theories. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Comics used in Transvestia as well. Cut from mainstream pubs, they featured cis, white, glamorous women and re-captioned to re-situate them with/in trans experiences. Reframed as self-representation and challenged ideas of gender and womanhood. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19

Moore: Transvestia allowed more nuanced examination of trans lives and experiences in the 1960s and over time. Preserved and protected narratives. Offered testimony and archival storytelling. #nwsa2019 #nwsa19