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Transgender Woman Attacked in Astoria Queens

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By Jennifer Lopez Suspects | Credit: DCPI On January 8th, 2014 a 30 year old transwoman whom wishes to remain anonymous for now, went to the Neptune Diner in Astoria Queens, New York City to eat an early morning meal with a friend. Her friend, a 32 year old cisgender man, went to the restroom. According to Deputy Inspector Kevin Maloney of the 114th Precinct in NYC that is when three other patrons in the diner began to insult the transwoman. The three other patrons included two cisgender women and one cisgender male. One of the ciswoman commented loudly to her friend “She is really a man”, while referring to the transwoman. Then one of the ciswoman remarked to the transwoman “Why are you dressed like that,” referring to and discriminating about her gender identity presentation. According to Deputy Inspector Maloney at that point the cisman returned from the restroom

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Community significance

“Transgender Woman Attacked in Astoria Queens” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to culture, identity, and representation. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Transgender Woman Attacked in Astoria Queens” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and culture, identity, and representation, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Themes

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    30%
  3. 3
    Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    11%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Transgender identity and history to Culture, identity, and representation: Related theme in the same family
Culture, identity, and representation
Transgender identity and history to Violence, safety, and dehumanization: Separate but related
Violence, safety, and dehumanization
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
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This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Jennifer Lopez

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · February 14, 2014

Transgender Woman Attacked in Astoria Queens

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Jenn

3 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Autumn Sandeen

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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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