The Many Faces Of Mara Keisling: The Death of United ENDA?
Is one of the key players in the United ENDA movement, Mara Keisling, signaling its death? Recently Keisling said: ‘We have to show Barney Frank 220 votes,’ she said. ‘If we show him 220 votes, nobody is going to work harder on this. The same with HRC… It’s going to happen again next year. ‘- After ENDA, the Fighter’s Resilient According to Donna Rose’s blog : 3/1/2008 – They’re currently planning to hold hearings in Congress specifically about transgender workplace issues in April. Whereas original plans were to tightly control those hearings, Rep. Frank has largely turned over control of gathering the stories to NCTE/Mara Keisling (who’s home in DC with pneumonia). Mara has been diligently working with many of us to identify potential speakers who can come to Washington DC to speak and I expect she’ll be finalizing that to give to Barney shortly. Frank later emailed Rose and
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“The Many Faces Of Mara Keisling: The Death of United ENDA?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 community and organizing. Published in 2008 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to community and organizing and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community86%
- 3Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life46%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life34%
- 5Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life26%
- 6Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life14%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 233%
- 325%
Editorial function
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How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history531
- Law and civil rights300
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization187
- Education and youth177
- Culture, identity, and representation174
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse171
- Feminism and gender politics165
- History, archives, and memory158
- Public policy and governance132
- Labor, economics, and institutions124
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination122
- Public accommodations and facilities104
- Criminal justice and public safety82
- Elections and democratic governance70
- Research ethics and data governance51
- Housing and social services25
- Administrative classification and identity documents23
- Labor and employment policy22
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Documented circulation and reception
3 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2008. 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 CollectiveThe Death of United ENDA Part III: The Funeral
[...] March I wrote a post called “The Many Faces Of Mara Keisling: The Death of United ENDA?” in which I put forth the theory that the coalition of over 300 groups was dead. In April I wrote [...]
Top Secret: The Transgender Workplace Discrimination Hearings
[...] but today isn’t one of those days. I’ve said repeatedly that United ENDA is dead ( here and here). And I’ve said that we had better plan on not being in ENDA. The fight for an [...]
Starting From Scratch:The Death of United ENDA Part II
[...] March I said: “Essentially it’s business as usual for HRC. Nothing has substantially changed in their [...]
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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