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“Never Too Late to Live Your Authentic Life”: Later-in-Life FTM Trans YouTube Narratives
Ash Kinney d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

July 6, 2020 Ash Kinney d'Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin One comment

Ash Kinney d’Harcourt examines the complexities in the later in life female-to-male (FTM) transition narratives shared on YouTube. The stories of these late bloomers, and trans elders more broadly, are significant at a time when trans futures are uncertain.

Normalizing Subversion: The Comedy Approach of ‘Take My Wife’
Ashlynn d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

July 30, 2018 Ash Kinney d'Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin 2 comments

Ashlynn d’Harcourt explores the ways in which comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher stealthily center themselves on screen and in doing so, reposition their non-normative identities as conventional, further normalizing their subversiveness.

Fire in Her Belly: Gendered Standards of Comedic Discourse
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July 7, 2017 Ash Kinney d'Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin 3 comments

Ashlynn d’Harcourt explores gender-based double standards for comedians through an analysis of the media backlash to Kathy Griffin’s participation in a photo shoot with a Trump mask covered in fake blood. Stand-up is conceptualized as a descendant of vaudeville and anarchistic comedy to better understand the comedian’s craft and motivations.

“Never Too Late to Live Your Authentic Life”: Later-in-Life FTM Trans YouTube NarrativesAsh Kinney d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

Normalizing Subversion: The Comedy Approach of ‘Take My Wife’ Ashlynn d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

Fire in Her Belly: Gendered Standards of Comedic Discourse Ashlynn d’Harcourt / The University of Texas at Austin

“Never Too Late to Live Your Authentic Life”: Later-in-Life FTM Trans YouTube Narratives
Ash Kinney d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

Normalizing Subversion: The Comedy Approach of ‘Take My Wife’
Ashlynn d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

Fire in Her Belly: Gendered Standards of Comedic Discourse
Ashlynn d’Harcourt / The University of Texas at Austin