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Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference

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Source Summary

I’ve just returned from the International Foundation for Gender Education’s annual conference that was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. A speaker on the very first day said “If you let it, this conference will change you.” Even though this was my first conference, the skeptic in me heard a sales pitch being thrown. “Maybe some other people buy that stuff, but not me”, I told myself. Most of the conference is spent in workshops (the full list here), but there were also three luncheons, three outings, and the Gala Banquet. Three workshops really impacted me. The first workshop I attended was Pauline Park‘s “Making Diversity Real: Transgendered People of Color & the Transgender Movement”. I didn’t talk too much in this workshop, because I’m white, and I was there to listen and learn. As someone that focuses on diversity in a group setting, the workshop gave me

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, 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 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference” provides dated evidence of how community and organizing 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 “Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of community and organizing may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Granular comparative context

How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations