The View from Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting Objectivity

Conversation featuring Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace.

Many people first learn about transgender issues in the news media. Coverage of transgender issues and the presence and visibility of transgender journalists are both on the rise. At the same time, transgender people have and continue to be reported on through distorted lenses of transphobia, white supremacy, and binary gender, and much of this reporting is presented as objective and fair.

In this conversation, Meredith Talusan and Lewis Raven Wallace, seasoned transgender journalists and movement journalism activists, address the problems of “objectivity” for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.

Recorded on November 19, 2019 at Barnard College, NYC.

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