Meanings
- uncountableThe exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).
[…] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.
2010 July 8, David Lambe, “Queer eye for the gore fest”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 40, number 27, page 222 more examples
Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.
2009 December 9, Lina Lecaro, “Drag-Hagging With The Best Of 'Em”, in LA WeeklyIn the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?
2014 April 18, Anna Waugh, “'Drag Race' promises to drop 'transphobic' gags”, in Dallas Voice, volume 30, number 49, page 4
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