Archiving the Wonders of Testosterone Via YouTube

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ID13087147
AuthorsTobias Raun (0000-0003-3551-2818, Roskilde University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume2
Issue4
Pages701-709
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9252 • E-ISSN: 2328-9260
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23289252-3151646
OpenAlexW2310059126
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited14

The article engages with trans male video blogs on YouTube, framing them as living archives that offer unique opportunities to access and share embodied trans knowledges—which have previously been limited or inaccessible—such as information about and visual accounts of medical transitioning processes. It is argued that archiving one's transition works through a kind of performative documentation, partly documenting and partly instantiating the transformation by tracking and tracing the bodily changes. Testosterone figures as the transformative technology, while the upper body becomes the privileged site of self-fashioning. YouTube hereby offers an alternative and empowering archive of how trans male bodies could look, while its cumulative effects also play a significant role in determining how they should look

Art · Internet privacy · Testosterone (patch · World Wide Web · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Medicine · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Endocrinology

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