DEAR STONEWALL, PLEASE STOP EXPLOITING OUR DEAD!
I’m pissed. Every year I write this post. EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN YEAR. You just can’t help but feed off the dead. You did it in 2007, in 2008, and 2009, and you’re doing it again this year. What am I talking about? Every year I do a post about a group that is either exploiting or misusing the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today after reading Gwen Smith’s “Dancing on Graves” on the subject, I get this in my email: Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance – a day when we remember all the lives tragically lost to violence against transgender or gender variant people around the world. It’s also a day that we recommit to including the “T” in LGBT in our quest for full equality. We do have reason for hope: the Obama Administration appointed Amanda Simpson, an out trans woman from Arizona, to the Commerce Department. The Administration
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“DEAR STONEWALL, PLEASE STOP EXPLOITING OUR DEAD!” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging violence, safety, and dehumanization. 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 transgender identity and history. Published in 2010 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how violence, safety, and dehumanization was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
“DEAR STONEWALL, PLEASE STOP EXPLOITING OUR DEAD!” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict27%
- 3Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life14%
- 4Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life11%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community7%
- 6Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life5%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 3 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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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 2012. 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 CollectiveExploiting The Transgender Dead: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s Rent-A-Corpse Page | The Transadvocate
[...] tried to exploit the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), but after repeated attempts (1, 2, 3, 4) I have come to expect it. This year’s attempt comes from the Massachusetts Transgender [...]
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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.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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