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Filisa Vistima’s Diary

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Source Summary

Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman from Seattle. She volunteered at the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC). On March 6, 1993 Filisa took her own life. What you’re about to read are her own words from her own journal… November 3, 1992: Sometimes when I am walking outside on a clear night I will look up and try to find my home among the stars. I must try to do something out of my bedroom. I am becoming depressed, suicidal even. I spent the entire day inside. Um, yes, I did say suicidal. I have a steady stream of thoughts about utter hopelessness, thoughts about where to kill myself and how, that won’t just go away. Maybe if I did get a job it would only make me suffer longer. I don’t like to see living things suffer. I wanted to do so many things. I wanted to help

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Filisa Vistima’s Diary” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. 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 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “Filisa Vistima’s Diary” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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

1
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
3
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
43%
4
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
41%
5
Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
29%
6
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
24%

Academic framing

1
Empirical and quantitative research
100%
2
Clinical and medical analysis
91%

Policy framing

1
Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%

Editorial function

Source topics

Relationship key

Separate but related themes
Related theme in the same family

The diagram distinguishes hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes inferred within this article. It does not assert that all themes are mutually exclusive.

These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.

Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

240 2013

126 2014

33 2015

28 2016

50 2017

41 2018

15 2019

2 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

Presence by member publication

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Policy framings in this topic

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

Inbound-link and citation evidence

Documented circulation and reception

20 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 8 distinct domains. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

20distinct source records documented

8distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

20references retained by the source publication

—observed years in dated evidence

Evidence by channel

Independent counts; bars are not additive

Source-held references20

Coverage of the evidence search

Shows what has actually been checked

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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