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FAAB-Mentality

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Source Summary

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, as an explanation and reference for what I’ve been calling FAAB-mentality (described below). I originally wrote and performed this piece for the fourth annual installment of Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue in March 2012. Baby Talk I read blogs. And an unfortunate consequence of reading blogs is that sometimes you stumble upon statements that make you upset. Lately, I’ve been dwelling over one single sentence from a blog post that I read a few months ago. The author was a femme-identified cis woman who described her identity this way: “I only say I’m queer to steer clear of sex acts with cisgender men whilst simultaneously accommodating my devout lesbianism and propensity towards dating trans men when the butch pool feels too shallow.” I have become preoccupied with this quote, not because it is unusual or extraordinary –

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“FAAB-Mentality” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to culture, identity, and representation, 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

As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “FAAB-Mentality” provides dated evidence of how culture, identity, and representation was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “FAAB-Mentality.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of culture, identity, and representation may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

Content analysis

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

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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
70%
3
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
30%

Academic framing

1
Interpretive analysis
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

How “Culture, identity, and representation” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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1 2004

3 2005

5 2006

50 2007

29 2008

29 2009

6 2010

55 2011

56 2012

92 2013

53 2014

15 2015

9 2016

10 2017

13 2018

4 2019

2 2020

2 2021

1 2024

1 2025

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Documented circulation and reception

1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2013. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

1distinct source records documented

1distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

1references retained by the source publication

2013observed years in dated evidence

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Source-held references1

Coverage of the evidence search

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026

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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective

1 2013

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Author profiles and related researchers

julia

8 publications · 5 inbound sources/citations