This paper presentation interrogates what it means for gender identity when we take transness—not merely transgender, but also transcultural and transhistorical—as an epistemic motive, and how media representation participates in the construction of identity.

About the workshop

This one-day event explores different ways in which queer research engages with time and temporality in archival and ethnographic practices. Queer temporalities have become central to understanding queer and trans political struggles, memory, belonging and survival. Building on the critique of normative time, we understand “queer temporalities” as ways of disrupting the linear narratives of progress and crisis, asking instead how histories persist unevenly, how futures are imagined under conditions of precarity, and how affect shapes attachments across time (Text written by Tunay Altay and Marie Lunau Dejgaard).