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Profile status
Unclaimed
98registered publications
63,594analyzed words
2013–2019represented publication period
2.8effective primary themes
0documented inbound sources/citations
1member publications represented

Cristan Williams is a trans historian and pioneer in addressing the practical needs of the transgender community. She started the first trans homeless shelter in the South and co-founded the first federally funded trans-only homeless program, pioneered affordable healthcare for trans people in the Houston area, won the right for trans people to change their gender on Texas ID prior to surgery, started numerous trans social service programs and founded the Transgender Center as well as the Transgender Archives. Cristan is the editor at TransAdvocate.com, chairs the City of Houston HIV Prevention Planning Group, is the jurisdictional representative to the Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS), serves on the national steering body for UCHAPS and is the Executive Director of the Transgender Foundation of America.

Patterns in registered work

Explore how recurring themes and framings connect across this author’s registered publications. Each topic opens its Collective archive.

Theme Academic framing Policy framing Recurring co-occurrence Connection across framing types Broader and narrower term

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Academic framings

Corpus at a glance

Composition and completeness

This analysis covers 98 registered publications dated 2013–2019. Full source text was available for 45 records, partial text for 53, and metadata only for 0.

The registered corpus is the unit of analysis. These statistics describe available texts and metadata; they are not claims about the author’s personality, intelligence, intentions, identity, or private beliefs.

98publications analyzed
252median words per publication
45.9%full-text coverage
0.0%archival-copy coverage
0co-authored publications
0possible duplicate groups

Registered output by year

Registered publication output trends downward across the represented years. Linear model R²: 0.12.

Publication-length distribution

Mean 649 words · median 252 · standard deviation 1,155.

Member-publication distribution

Editorial forms represented

Research trajectory

Thematic development over time

Theme-by-year heatmap

2013–2014

38 publications

Feminism and gender politics · Transgender identity and history · Violence, safety, and dehumanization · Community and organizing

2015–2016

28 publications

Feminism and gender politics · Culture, identity, and representation · Science, evidence, and expertise · Violence, safety, and dehumanization

2017–2019

32 publications

Feminism and gender politics · Transgender identity and history · Law and civil rights

Model-detected change points

2015

Around 2015, the registered corpus shows a measurable change in thematic composition. Earlier work was more associated with Feminism and gender politics, Transgender identity and history; the following period places more weight on Feminism and gender politics, Transgender identity and history.

Thematic divergence: 0.160 · analytical score: 0.203
2017

Around 2017, the registered corpus shows a measurable change in thematic composition. Earlier work was more associated with Feminism and gender politics, Culture, identity, and representation; the following period places more weight on Feminism and gender politics, Transgender identity and history.

Thematic divergence: 0.083 · analytical score: 0.083

Potential change points compare rolling three-year thematic distributions with Jensen-Shannon divergence. They are model-derived boundaries, not authoritative divisions in the author’s intellectual biography.

Theme ecology

Breadth, concentration, and communities

49.5%normalized thematic breadth
2.8effective primary themes
0.555theme concentration (HHI)
100%mean primary-theme confidence

Primary-theme assignments are moderately concentrated. The most recurrent primary themes are Feminism and gender politics, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Ranked themes

Theme communities

Semantic map

Publication clusters and bridge works

Interactive map of registered publications

Proximity reflects corpus-relative lexical similarity. Larger nodes have more documented inbound evidence; node color reflects the primary theme.

Publication; color identifies primary themeStronger lexical similarityLarger node: more documented reception

The semantic map uses TF-IDF vectors and cosine similarity within this registered corpus. Position is produced by a force layout from the strongest similarity edges; proximity is relative, not an absolute measure of meaning.

Framing and method

How the registered work approaches its subjects

Academic and policy framing combinations

Academic framingCivil rights and anti-discriminationPublic accommodations and facilitiesCriminal justice and public safetyResearch ethics and data governanceElections and democratic governanceEducation policyHousing and social services
Interpretive analysis4212100
Historical analysis5210110
Critical theory1310001
Clinical and medical analysis4320010
Media and discourse analysis1100110
Ethical analysis1210010
Psychological analysis1110000
Language and rhetorical form

Measurable textual characteristics

0.801moving-average lexical diversity
24.3mean sentence length
220.0mean paragraph length
12.7Flesch grade estimate

Rhetorical feature profile

Evidence language Historical language Legal/policy language Institutional language Quoted passages Outbound references

Axes are normalized to display scales stated in the methods note; the chart is comparative within the profile, not a grading instrument.

Sentence-length distribution

5.5questions per 1,000 words
12.5quoted passages per 1,000 words
27.7outbound links per 1,000 words

Distinctive terms relative to the Collective baseline

View rates and comparison values
TermAuthor rate / 1,000Collective rate / 1,000Log-odds z
terf15.481.5827.22
feminism7.890.5019.51
women14.604.8718.11
radical7.861.3917.64
terfs5.190.7814.89
anti-trans4.920.8214.18
hate6.221.5014.07
brennan3.980.3913.79
movement5.191.1113.49
critical3.430.2012.80
feminist4.951.1912.56
harassment3.160.3012.31
project3.070.3112.08
system3.130.3911.93
neither2.910.1911.87
feminists3.340.5411.76
total2.820.1911.69
daily2.820.1911.69
rate2.940.3911.47
star2.730.2511.47
calling3.010.4311.43
effort2.980.4411.31
reasonable2.980.1011.26
cathy2.610.1811.26

Lexical statistics are descriptive properties of the available texts. They do not diagnose writing quality, intelligence, personality, or intent. Distinctive terms are compared with a sampled Collective baseline using smoothed log-odds.

Evidence and source ecology

What the registered corpus links to

1,673outbound links analyzed
132distinct linked domains
7.6effective domain diversity
13.8%same-publication reference rate

Source families

Frequently linked domains

Source families are inferred from link domains and URL patterns. They describe the ecology of linked evidence and references, not the reliability or ideological position of an individual source.

Collaboration and relationships

Co-authorship and corpus similarity

Author relationship network

Co-authorship and corpus-based similarity are displayed as different relationship types.

Profile authorCo-authorCorpus-related author

Collaboration summary

0distinct co-authors
0co-authored publications
98sole-authored publications

Co-authors

Member publications

  1. The TERFs98

Co-authorship, corpus similarity, citation relationships, and publication overlap are shown as distinct relationship types. A corpus relationship does not imply a personal, institutional, or political association.

Documented circulation and reception

How evidence of reuse is distributed across the corpus

0documented source records
0distinct referring domains
0scholarly citation records or provider total
0books or edited-volume references
0.0%publications with evidence
0.000reception concentration (Gini)

Evidence by channel

Reception concentration

Cumulative share of publications Cumulative share of documented reception Equal distribution

The most-referenced 10% of publications account for approximately 0.0% of documented reception.

Publications with the most documented reception

Reception measures documented circulation and reuse across the evidence sources available to the Collective. They do not establish quality, correctness, cultural worth, or the author’s social standing. Provider totals can overlap.

Comparative corpus context

Contrasts with other registered Collective publications

The comparison baseline contains 1,200 other registered publications. Differences are descriptive contrasts, not author rankings.

0.421theme-distribution divergence
0.196lexical-distribution divergence
-0.27standardized article-length difference
0.0author median documented reception

Theme prevalence differences

Academic-framing differences

Policy-framing differences

Comparisons use the rest of the registered Collective as the default baseline. Percentage-point differences and standardized effects describe corpus contrasts; they are not rankings or evaluations of authors.

Corpus coverage

Places, institutions, periods, and populations represented

Geographic coverage

  1. United States17
  2. United Kingdom3
  3. Australia2
  4. Canada2
  5. Global or international1

Institutions named

  1. Pacific Justice Institute2
  2. Mattachine Society2
  3. Transgender Archive2
  4. New York’s City Council2
  5. The Pacific Justice Institute1
  6. LGBT Bar Association1
  7. RadFem Hub Archive1
  8. National Organization1

Historical periods

  1. 2010s28
  2. 1990s17
  3. 1970s17
  4. 2000s15
  5. 1980s6
  6. 1960s4
  7. 1950s1
  8. 1930s1

Populations discussed

  1. women57
  2. transgender people34
  3. children and adolescents21
  4. activists and organizers12
  5. families and parents11
  6. students and educators7
  7. patients and healthcare users5
  8. racial and ethnic communities2

Coverage measures recurring places, institutions, historical periods, scopes, and population terms in the registered texts. It describes what is present in the corpus and does not judge omissions or infer the author’s identity or attitudes.

Guided reading paths

Different ways into the registered corpus

Representative workClosest to the semantic center of recurring work in the registered corpus.
Foundational workEarlier work whose primary themes persist in later registered publications.
Bridge workConnects publication clusters that would otherwise be less directly linked.
Turning-point workAppears near a model-detected change in thematic composition.
High documented receptionHas comparatively substantial documented circulation or citation evidence.
Central but less documented receptionIs structurally central to the corpus while having comparatively limited documented reception.
Atypical workDiffers most from the author’s other registered publications in corpus-relative lexical similarity.
Synthesis workCombines multiple themes and analytical framings that often appear separately.

These categories describe structural positions in the registered corpus. They do not establish scholarly quality, correctness, or cultural value.

Trust, correction, and reuse

Provenance, profile control, and research data

How to read this profile

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Author-verified

Confirmed by the profile owner.

Editor-verified

Reviewed by a Collective editor.

Computationally measured

Calculated directly from registered text or metadata.

Model-inferred

Produced by a versioned analytical model.

External index

Obtained from an external bibliographic or web index.

Profile actions

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Methods, coverage, and limitationsHow this corpus report was produced

Methods used

  • descriptive statistics
  • Shannon entropy and Herfindahl concentration
  • TF-IDF cosine similarity
  • weighted term co-occurrence
  • network degree and betweenness centrality
  • Jensen-Shannon divergence
  • log-odds lexical keyness
  • linear trend estimation
  • Gini and Lorenz concentration analysis
  • rule-based source and entity-family classification

Interpretive limits

  • The analysis describes the registered corpus, not the author’s personality, intentions, identity, or private beliefs.
  • Machine-generated themes, framings, source families, and entity families are provisional and remain open to editorial review.
  • Citation and inbound-source coverage depends on the providers, identifiers, and public evidence available to the Collective.
  • Semantic similarity is lexical and corpus-relative; it is not equivalent to human interpretation or a universal map of the subject.
  • Where a corpus exceeds the stated processing limits, the profile reports a stratified analytical sample and retains the full registered bibliography.
Analysis version
1.0.0
Generated
August 31, 2026
Record processing limit
180
Registered bibliography

Publications in the Collective

CAN-0000-0052-B37F

#TERFLogic: Silly trans handmaidens think social habits determine sex!!!! But seriously, it tots does for cis women. And intersex people.

Social “habits” are asserted to be a sexed “essence” that trans people supposedly appeal to in order to validate their gender; TERFs would never appeal to social habits as a sexed essence to validate their gender, right?!? In…

Corpus relationships

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Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus.