If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home
I recently received an email from Mara Keisling asking me to join the: “National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender People of Color Coalition in Washington, DC on June 17, 2013 to lobby for basic job protections and fair treatment in the U.S. immigration system.” In years past, the lobby days put on by the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, GenderPAC, and the National Center for Transgender Equality, were invaluable in educating both citizen lobbyists and the US Congress about the issues transgender people face. I’ve lobbied Congress and the tools I learned there were invaluable. But, that being said, I didn’t need to go to Washington DC to do it and neither do you. Lobbying Congress shouldn’t be just a day of the year, it should be done year round. If you want to lobby Congress, your Senators and Representatives have offices in your state. Instead of spending hundreds
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging community and organizing. 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, “If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home” 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
“If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home” 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
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
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community47%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
- 4Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
- 5Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life7%
- 6Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life5%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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- Separate but related themes
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (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
2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2013. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collectivetransadvocate (@transadvocate)
If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home : http://t.co/vz8u7FOwTJ #ENDA #trans #glbt
Emet Tauber (@Rememberandhope)
RT @AutumnSandeen: Via @transadvocate: If you Want to Lobby for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Stay Home http://t.co/blghd4o7dd #trans #lgbtqia
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Author profiles and related researchers
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