Abstract
The science-fiction Netflix series Sense8 features eight “sensates” across the world who suddenly become telekinetically connected, able to inhabit each other’s bodies. I put forth the term visual interchangeability to explain these cinematographical swaps, when audiences perceive one character temporarily standing in for another. Able to experience each other’s arousal, the sensates partake in transglobal orgies: As bodies of different races interchange with one another, individual sensates’ sexual orientations and preferences are seemingly rendered irrelevant. Praised for its LGBT + representations, and particularly of trans identity, Sense8’s utopic implications suggested by the sensates’ apparent pansexuality and raceblindness is undermined by its essentializing, inaccurate depictions of non-White and non-Western cultures.
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