Citations:transface

English citations of transface

transgender-related sense

• 2015 February 25, Daniel Reynolds, “Is ‘Transface’ a Problem in Hollywood?”, The Advocate (published online, but the title was then cited in:)
• 2017, Laura Copier, Eliza Steinbock, "On not really being there: trans* presence/absence in Dallas Buyers Club", in Feminist Media Studies, volume 18, 2018, issue 5, pages 923-941:

  […] bringing little backstory or personal understanding to these roles, or worse, as something analogous to white actors doing blackface, called “transface” (Daniel Reynolds 2015). […] Reynolds, Daniel . 2015. “Is ‘Transface’ a Problem in Hollywood?” Advocate.Com , February 25. Accessed August 9, 2017

• 2016, E. M. Elg, Embodying the Other-A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression, in LUP [Lund University] Student Papers

  BP Morton “Thoughts on Cis Actors in Trans Roles: Transface, Blackface, Yellowface and Beyond"

• 2016, Akkadia Ford, "Whose Club Is It Anyway?: The Problematic of Trans Representation in Mainstream Films——“Rayon” and Dallas Buyers Club". i Screen Bodies, 2016:

  Transface raises comparisons with the now-rejected and discredited practice of “blackface.”

• 2018, The New York Times Editorial Staff, Sex and Sexuality, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc (→ISBN), page 79:

  People who are not transgender have been quick to shout things like, “This is why it's called 'acting!'” […] But the days of transface are numbered.

• 2019, Jamison Green, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Cris Mayo, sj Miller, Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 99:

  In recent years, the concept of “transface”7 has become a pressing issue (Reynolds, 2015). Analogous to the concept of “blackface,” where white vaudeville and film performers would use makeup in order to portray black people as racist stereotypes, transface refers to the casting of cisgender actors to play transgender characters (Earl, 2018). A particularly troubling outcome of transface is the reinforcement of biodeterministic views of gender.

• 2021, Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, SAGE Publications (→ISBN):

  The cis gaze also fuels recent conversation surrounding transface: the practice of trans characters being played by cis actors of the wrong gender (e.g., a trans man played by a cis woman). The colloquial term transface takes its name from the racist practice of blackface in vaudeville […] As trans characters are typically portrayed by cis actors, who identify with the assigned sex of their character, transface often reinforces the biodeterministic underpinnings of gender and gender essentialism. […] the effects of transface should not be overlooked.

other sense

• 2012, B.K.B. Berkovitz, A. Boyde, R.M. Frank, H.J. Höhling, B.J. Moxham, J. Nalbandian, C.H. Tonge, Teeth, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 50:

  The internal face of the stack of dictyosomes is concave and has been termed trans-face. Saccules, vesicle, vacuoles and newly formed secretion granules are associated with the trans-face but not the cis-face and occupy the center of the Golgi ...