Taryn Hepburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 347565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taryn Hepburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Hepburn |
| SIGNATURE | HEPBURN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-397X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Gender Agenda's Agenda: How 'Tabloid Media Sensationalist Scumbag[s]' Mobilize Affect to Promote Transphobia
In 2023, Australia's 7NEWS Spotlight released The Gender Agenda, a documentary that purportedly, '[uncovers] the irreparable damage being visited on a generation of confused kids wrongly diagnosed as transgender.' Using critical discourse analysis and affect theory, we analyze the documentary's argumentative strategies. We conclude that in the absence of compelling factual evidence, Spotlight uses emotion to convince audiences to distrust gender …
Compensating for Stigma: Representations of Hard to Adopt Children in the "Today’s Child"
We examine 4,300 advertisements of children who were featured in Today’s Child, a daily newspaper column written by Helen Allen in the Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star (1964–1982) and syndicated across North America. We highlight how stigma and values were attributed to adoptive children featured in these advertisements. Our findings reveal how the advertisements perpetuated and attached stigma to these children and how this stigma had to be com…
Permission (Not) Granted: Regulation of Public Children’s Spaces Through Spaces as Coding Machines
The space of an elementary school is expected to regulate the bodies of the children within its fences. While the space of the school does this as expected, it also exerts regulation on adults inside and outside of the school space. I engage in formal participant observation of a public street and public school over three days, alongside an immersive ethnography. Formal observation allows participants to remain affectively unaffected, while commu…
Advertising ‘Happy’ Children: The Settler Family, Happiness and the Indigenous Child Removal System
We analyse 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star from 1964 to 1982, to understand how the Canadian public became accepting of the adoption of Indigenous children. While children of all ethnic backgrounds were featured, the Indigenous children who were displayed were part of a larger system of child removal, known as the ‘Sixties Scoop’. We …
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Advertising ‘Happy’ Children: The Settler Family, Happiness and the Indigenous Child Removal System
We analyse 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star from 1964 to 1982, to understand how the Canadian public became accepting of the adoption of Indigenous children. While children of all ethnic backgrounds were featured, the Indigenous children who were displayed were part of a larger system of child removal, known as the ‘Sixties Scoop’. We …
Compensating for Stigma: Representations of Hard to Adopt Children in the "Today’s Child"
We examine 4,300 advertisements of children who were featured in Today’s Child, a daily newspaper column written by Helen Allen in the Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star (1964–1982) and syndicated across North America. We highlight how stigma and values were attributed to adoptive children featured in these advertisements. Our findings reveal how the advertisements perpetuated and attached stigma to these children and how this stigma had to be com…
Permission (Not) Granted: Regulation of Public Children’s Spaces Through Spaces as Coding Machines
The space of an elementary school is expected to regulate the bodies of the children within its fences. While the space of the school does this as expected, it also exerts regulation on adults inside and outside of the school space. I engage in formal participant observation of a public street and public school over three days, alongside an immersive ethnography. Formal observation allows participants to remain affectively unaffected, while commu…
The Gender Agenda's Agenda: How 'Tabloid Media Sensationalist Scumbag[s]' Mobilize Affect to Promote Transphobia
In 2023, Australia's 7NEWS Spotlight released The Gender Agenda, a documentary that purportedly, '[uncovers] the irreparable damage being visited on a generation of confused kids wrongly diagnosed as transgender.' Using critical discourse analysis and affect theory, we analyze the documentary's argumentative strategies. We conclude that in the absence of compelling factual evidence, Spotlight uses emotion to convince audiences to distrust gender …
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)