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Mass Communication and Society, 4(1), 3–18.īarker-Plummer, B. The politics of studying media violence: Reflections 30 years after the violence commission. Wolfgang (Eds.), Collective violence (pp. “She’ll wake up one of these days and find she’s turned into a nigger”: Passing through hybridity. In this chapter, Billard explores these tensions, challenging the application of the label “deception” by the social majority to those of marginal identities, particularly inconspicuous ones, as it serves to delegitimate authentic identities and police the boundaries of social hierarchies. As such, media discourses surrounding transgender people who “pass” justify punishment for their deception through physical violence. This chapter raises important questions about the nature of deception and status of deceiver, analyzing media discourses surrounding instances of transgender “passing.” These discourses position transgender people as deceivers who live out their genders to seduce heterosexuals, scrutinizing their appearances for signs of their “true gender.” Contradictorily, successful “passing” as cisgender legitimates a transgender person’s gender identity, but also renders them more malicious in their deception.
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