BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13180-5cefbb0b084faef5f799c520453b5259@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T172758Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T090000 SUMMARY:AFI Feminist Dialogue with Nneoma Onwuegbuchi DESCRIPTION:\n“‘Male Barbies’: Trans Identities\, Body Politics\, and So cial Media in Africa”\n\nThis talk explores the representations of trans women in various social media outlets and how African expressive cultur es\, specifically fashion rituals—such as clothing practices and beauty rituals—shape transgender identities in West Africa. I investigate trans gender social media influencers\, dubbed ‘male Barbies\,’ including Bobr isky in Nigeria\; Martin Hughes\, popularly known as Ohemartin in Ghana\ ; and Cameroonian Njeukam Loic Mildred\, known as Shakiro to highlight h ow they use beauty practices to promote transgender visibility and navig ate a precarious life in unhospitable environments for LGBTI people. Giv en several incidents of state-sanctioned violence against transgender in dividuals in West Africa\, my talk highlights the importance of addressi ng the rights and agency of sexual and gender minorities globally. Criti cs have scarcely addressed the roles of bodily rituals and politics in m ediating transgender prominence in West Africa\, although they shape the identities of many gender minorities in Africa and globally.\n\nNneoma Onwuegbuchi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African Cultura l Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses o n gender and sexuality in West African media cultures including films\, novels\, and social media. Through her transnational work\, she aims to explore the connections between gendered body politics in West Africa an d broader global issues such as neoliberalism and consumerism all within the context of diverse media capitalism. Various awards from institutio ns such as the UW-Madison African Studies Program\, the West African Res earch Association\, and the CUNY Graduate Center have provided research support for her work. Onwuegbuchi holds a bachelor of arts degree in lit erary studies from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and a master of arts degree in African cultural studies with a minor in gender and women’s s tudies from UW-Madison. Onwuegbuchi’s dissertation advisor is Jacqueline -Bethel Mougoué.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/a fi-feminist-dialogue-with-nneoma-onwuegbuchi/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“‘Male Barbies’: Trans Identities, Body Politics, and Social Media in Africa”

This talk explores the representations of trans women in v arious social media outlets and how African expressive cultures, specifi cally fashion rituals—such as clothing practices and beauty rituals—shap e transgender identities in West Africa. I investigate transgender socia l media influencers, dubbed ‘male Barbies,’ including Bobrisky in Nigeri a; Martin Hughes, popularly known as Ohemartin in Ghana; and Cameroonian Njeukam Loic Mildred, known as Shakiro to highlight how they use beauty practices to promote transgender visibility and navigate a precarious l ife in unhospitable environments for LGBTI people. Given several inciden ts of state-sanctioned violence against transgender individuals in West Africa, my talk highlights the importance of addressing the rights and a gency of sexual and gender minorities globally. Critics have scarcely ad dressed the roles of bodily rituals and politics in mediating transgende r prominence in West Africa, although they shape the identities of many gender minorities in Africa and globally.

Nneoma Onwuegbuc hi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African Cultura l Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses o n gender and sexuality in West African media cultures including films, n ovels, and social media. Through her transnational work, she aims to exp lore the connections between gendered body politics in West Africa and b roader global issues such as neoliberalism and consumerism all within th e context of diverse media capitalism. Various awards from institutions such as the UW-Madison African Studies Program, the West African Researc h Association, and the CUNY Graduate Center have provided research suppo rt for her work. Onwuegbuchi holds a bachelor of arts degree in literary studies from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and a master of arts degr ee in African cultural studies with a minor in gender and women’s studie s from UW-Madison. Onwuegbuchi’s dissertation advisor is Jacqueline-Beth el Mougoué.

For more details: https://events.la. psu.edu/event/afi-feminist-dialogue-with-nneoma-onwuegbuchi/

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