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Dear Jennifer Usher, Please Do Keep Your Focus On Me

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Source Summary

Jennifer Usher posted up on her blog a post entitled Slacktivists? ROTFLLMAO!!!!! as a response to my recent Transadvocate post Transsexual Separatist Slacktivism Doesn’t Win Legislatively. I haven’t made it a habit of responding to her, but I am doing so this time — and personally to her at that. Jennifer, I know I’m violating the “don’t feed the trolls” axiom about responding to folk who, with intent, try to provoke angry or personal responses, but in this case I’m commenting to you directly. It’s because I want you to waste your time focusing on me. And let’s start from the point that I keep undercounting how many times you’ve tagged me in your blog. I did it again with my recent twitter count of how many times you’ve tagged me in your blog — I missed one of your blogs tags for me, so I undercounted the times you

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Dear Jennifer Usher, Please Do Keep Your Focus On Me” 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 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “Dear Jennifer Usher, Please Do Keep Your Focus On Me” 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

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to community and organizing and transgender identity and history, 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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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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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
28%

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Interpretive analysis
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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
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How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations