Abstract

Transgender representations are predominantly negative and represent trans identities in dehumanizing tropes. I analyze the sole Black. transgender character on Orange is the New Black, Sophia Burset, to theorize a framework for transgender subjectivity that interrupts dehumanizing tropes. Sophia’s narrative on the show constructs transgender subjectivity through Sophia’s medical transformation, relationship with a Catholic nun, and lack of community with Black, cisgender women in prison. I employ theory from Black feminism and transgender media studies to analyze Sophia’s medical transition, interpersonal relationships, and political ideologies. Ultimately, Sophia Burset’s narrative functions as a non-threatening trans woman to alleviate transphobia and render Blackness invisible in Laverne Cox’s embodiment of Sophia Burset.

中文翻译：

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注视着“它”：橙色中的超常规性和黑人女性的交叉分析是新黑人

摘要

跨性别代表主要是负面的，并代表非人性化的比喻中的跨身份。我分析唯一的布莱克。橙色的跨性别角色是新黑人，索菲娅·伯塞特（Sophia Burset），为跨性别主观性的理论框架打断了打断非人类化的比喻。索菲亚在演出中的叙述通过索菲亚的医学转型，与天主教修女的关系以及与黑人，在狱中的cisgender妇女缺乏社区来构建跨性别主观性。我运用黑人女权主义和跨性别媒体研究的理论来分析索菲娅的医学转型，人际关系和政治意识形态。最终，索菲亚·伯塞特（Sophia Burset）的叙事作为非威胁性的跨性别女人发挥作用，以减轻恐惧感，并使拉弗恩·考克斯（Laverne Cox）对索菲亚·伯塞特（Sophia Burset）的化身为黑色。