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Where Will You Be for the Transgender Day of Remembrance?

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In the past I’ve held a quiet, personal vigil at home on November 20th for the Transgender Day of Remembrance instead of attending any of the memorial events hosted in my city & around the world. The very thought was too soul-crushing really. When friends asked me to an event last November I couldn’t even vocalize what torment the thought of attending brought me. I felt like every name spoken could be my child, and I simply could not endure that thought. Not with others. Ever since my father’s sudden and tragic death in 1981, I kept Loss under lock and key like a prisoner fearing it’s strength would consume me. There was a persistent, yet completely hidden darkness in me. Something I couldn’t shake after standing in the doorway watching him die. I never wanted to name it, or own it, like the various self-help books I consumed like

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Community significance

“Where Will You Be for the Transgender Day of Remembrance?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging interpretive analysis. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Where Will You Be for the Transgender Day of Remembrance?” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to interpretive analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “Where Will You Be for the Transgender Day of Remembrance?.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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jen

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Admin

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Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Autumn Sandeen

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Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Education and youth, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

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Related academic framing

1885: Transgender Person Discovered After Death

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

The Coshocton Democrat, Page 3; May 5, 1865. (Coshocton, Ohio) A MALE-WOMAN. — A strange sort of person named Sophia Gibons, died a few days ago Cambridge out…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0227-028F
Related academic framing

1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0287-A902
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1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender, Alice Cooper

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

The Sun, Apr. 26, 1975 “The gimmick that brought him fame and fortune four years ago was the trans-gender name, the mascara, the bizarre goings-on on stage.”

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0183-2EA1
Overview

1989: Transgender = Umbrella Term

Provides broader orientation to the subject and terminology assumed by this article.

The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping by Dennis M Dailey, page 73

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0021-F751