Timeline of Queer & Trans POC-led Resistance to #HB2
By Alexx Andersen There has been a lot of misinformation about North Carolina’s House Bill 2 through various media outlets, as well as a general lack of coverage in regards to the many Queer and Trans People of Color-led (QTPOC) efforts since the passing of North Carolina’s House Bill 2, referred in the media as “The Bathroom Bill.” The narrative that has been pushed through various media outlets leads people to believe that it is only about the bathrooms. North Carolina’s House Bill 2 uses the guise of protecting white women to hide the subsequent sections which harm the rights of workers, among these being protections only for sexed identities assigned at birth, restricting minimum wage increases, and restricting child labor protections. Especially by marketing it as the “Bathroom Bill”, many conservative-leaning legislators became more open to endorsing the bill. The media continued to push the narrative that the bill
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Community significance
“Timeline of Queer & Trans POC-led Resistance to #HB2” may matter to community readers because it connects media, rhetoric, and discourse with organizing, advocacy, or collective experience. Its discussion of transgender identity and history gives readers a concrete point of entry into the concerns and strategies represented in the article.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning media, rhetoric, and discourse. Published in 2017 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.
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Themes
- 1Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community38%
- 3History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication23%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life22%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community22%
- 6Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life19%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 283%
Policy framing
- 1100%
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