Still Sockpuppeting After All These Weeks
Or, to pilfer from the oeuvre of Paul Simon’s wife: Shooting Rubberbands at Sockpuppets (Because That’s All I Can Do Without Violating the Patriot Act.) Sooooooooooooooooooo… Now, where to begin? Where to begin? Where to begin? Well, lets start at planetransgender and word that Pam’s House Blend isn’t the only venue that is actively impeding and/or denigrating views that don’t rigidly adhere to the ‘all gay marriage, all the time – and all gay marriage all the time is good for trans people even though none of the reasons we put forth to support that claim hold any water’ dogma. (Now, to be fair to PHB, I haven’t noticed any erasures lately – but, then again, if you don’t know what you’re looking for when you’re prowling around there, you won’t find any evidence there regarding what happened to Kathleen – or me for that matter – so I’m not
The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.
Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Still Sockpuppeting After All These Weeks” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging family and relationships. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning law and civil rights. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how family and relationships was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and family and relationships, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community57%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community52%
- 4Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication26%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life9%
- 6Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication7%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 275%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 222%
- 322%
- 417%
Editorial function
Source topics
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- Related theme in the same family
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history468
- Community and organizing300
- Public policy and governance165
- Education and youth151
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization146
- Culture, identity, and representation145
- Labor, economics, and institutions136
- Family and relationships130
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse119
- History, archives, and memory117
Academic framings in this topic
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Documented circulation and reception
3 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2011. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveWhy is Free State Just Us, er…, ‘Equality’ Maryland Afraid to Have its Propaganda Critiqued in the Light of Day? | The Transadvocate
[...] of course, the sockpuppet’s sockpuppet is right in the middle of [...]
Why is Free State Just Us, er…, ‘Equality’ Maryland Afraid to Have its Propaganda Critiqued in the Light of Day? « ENDAblog
[...] of course, the sockpuppet’s sockpuppet is right in the middle of [...]
Why is Free State Just Us, er…, ‘Equality’ Maryland Afraid to Have its Propaganda Critiques in the Light of Day? « ENDAblog
[...] of course, the sockpuppet’s sockpuppet is right in the middle of [...]
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
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