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Bad Trans Objects: Lecture by Cael Keegan

🕒 7:00 PM
📅 September 19, 2025

Join renowned trans media scholar and author Cáel M. Keegan for a lecture that explores the complex legacy of trans representation in film and media, reclaiming “bad” trans portrayals as a source of liberation. 

Presented in conversation with films across the Exposures 2025 program, like Notes on Vanishing (Lily Alexandre) and We Are Pat (Ro Haber), Keegan invites you to consider why we need “bad” trans objects more than ever.

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Description

Cáel M. Keegan is Associate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University and has written extensively on transgender and queer identities as expressed via popular media formats, platforms, and genres. Keegan is the author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender and has co-edited special issues of Transgender Studies Quarterly (12.1) on trans speculative media and fiction, and Somatechnics (8.1) on the trans cinematic body.

He is currently writing a book on The Silence of the Lambs for the Queer Film Classics series at McGill-Queen’s University Press. 

Event Details

Date: September 19, 2025

Start time: 19:00 EDT

End time: 20:00 EDT

Venue: Union Française de Montréal

Coordinates: 429 Avenue Viger E, Montréal, QC H2L 2N9

Directions: Union Française is just a 4‑minute walk from Champ‑de‑Mars Metro station (Orange Line) and a 7‑minute walk from Berri–UQAM. You can also arrive by bus (14, 30, 50, 150, 350, 361, 445) or bike. The venue is fully accessible. The front entrance has a few steps, but our back entrance is step‑free. We’ll have clear signs to guide you to the accessible entrance.

Montréal’s first trans film festival.

EXPOSURES exists on the territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, who are the custodians of the land and waters of Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Alongside this necessary but inadequate territorial recognition, we demand restitution and reparation for Indigenous peoples across all of “Canada”.

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