Skærmfødsler

Tobias Rauns Skærmfødsler – en undersøgelse af det transformative potentiale i unge transkønnedes video blogs på YouTube. (Screen births – An examination of the transformative potential in the video blogs of young transgendered people on YouTube). The point of departure of the article is the rising number of video blogs (vlogs) on YouTube, where young transgendered people document and discuss their gender transformations. The article argues that these vlogs are a tool for staging the self and the creation of personal story telling in the shape of some sort of autobiographies and diaries, which also connect to creation, communication and negotiation with a larger collective story about being transgendered. Here the vlog is a means to be seen rather than secrecy, and this challenges pathologisation of transgenderedness.