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Managing Unpredictability: The Intimate Public of Finnish Trans Memes on Instagram




AlaotsikkoThe Intimate Public of Finnish Trans Memes on Instagram

TekijätJaaksi, Vilja

KustantajaForeningen Lambda Nordica

Julkaisuvuosi2024

JournalLambda Nordica

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimilambda nordica

Vuosikerta29

Numero2-3

Aloitussivu97

Lopetussivu121

ISSN1100-2573

eISSN2001-7286

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v29.958

Verkko-osoitehttps://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v29.958

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/459186857


Tiivistelmä

While research has delved into the political and protest potential of memes, the analyses have largely left out political memes of marginalized communities. This article provides an analysis of Finnish trans memes on Instagram, focusing simultaneously on their political arguments and on the intimate public formed around them. Based on 18 media diaries and interviews with Finnish gender minorities, this article explores how Finnish trans memes on Instagram articulate how unjust social infrastructures create vulnerability and unpredictability in trans lives, while at the same time creating feelings of connection between and across identities, and alleviating feelings of vulnerability through laughter and care. The article challenges the traditional notion of politics as being outside of intimate publics, arguing that Finnish trans memes’ articulation of the vulnerability and unpredictability resulting from unjust infrastructure is, in fact, the connecting glue of the intimate public.


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