Hurricane Florence & the trans community: how you can help
The North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia trans communities are at significant risk of taking a direct hit from one of the region’s largest hurricanes of the last 50 years. Hurricane Florence will be a catastrophic disaster and thousands are already displaced due to mandatory evacuations. North Carolina, home of HB2, banns cities from protecting LGBT people from discrimination. Add to that a Trump education and housing department that embraces trans discrimination as a matter of policy, the trans community in the path of Hurricane Florence are at risk of the one-two punch of surviving a natural disaster to only then face discrimination and systemic oppression as they try to recover from the disaster. According to Rebecca Dunn, chairperson of the Carolina Transgender Society, the local trans community lacks the infrastructure to coordinate a response to the hurricane saying, “Larger cities might be proactive, but the rural areas aren’t, let’s
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Hurricane Florence & the trans community: how you can help” may matter to community readers because it connects transgender identity and history with organizing, advocacy, or collective experience. Its discussion of community and organizing gives readers a concrete point of entry into the concerns and strategies represented in the article.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2018 at Transadvocate.com, “Hurricane Florence & the trans community: how you can help” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to community and organizing. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“Hurricane Florence & the trans community: how you can help” 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 community and organizing.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community79%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life75%
- 4Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life17%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Overlapping themes
- Separate but related themes
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 year(s) after the theme’s 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
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
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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