Transing the "Problem": Trans Latinx Micro-Celebrity Media Activism.

On social media platforms, micro-celebrities need visibility to build community. Yet, the promise of online community is challenging for creators who contend with media platforms' corporate policies on the one hand and users' social biases on the other. Drawing from media studies, trans studies, and Latinx studies, this article follows the work of trans Latinx micro-celebrities as they maintain visibility on social media platforms, despite the phobic constraints of platform corporate policies and social practices. They do so by transing the "problem" ascribed to trans expression—using, for example, one platform to critique antitrans discrimination on another platform or by challenging the norms of legibility for micro-celebrities online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]