Exploiting The Transgender Dead: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s Rent-A-Corpse Page
I used to be outraged when the non-profit sector of the “LGBT” community tried to exploit the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), but after repeated attempts (1, 2, 3, 4) I have come to expect it. This year’s attempt comes from the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s (MTPC) TDOR page: You too can become a Boston TDOR sponsor. You can make MTPC’s TDOR page look like a sponsored NASCAR vehicle! As I mentioned before, the intention behind the TDOR is best summed up by its founder, Gwen Smith: “The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgendered people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred.
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Exploiting The Transgender Dead: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s Rent-A-Corpse Page” 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 2012 at Transadvocate.com, “Exploiting The Transgender Dead: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s Rent-A-Corpse Page” 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
The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and community and organizing, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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 community35%
- 3Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication10%
- 4Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict7%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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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 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
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
Documented circulation and reception
1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2012. 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 CollectiveHRC = Homosexuals Renting Corpses « ENDABlog 2.0
[...] Marti Abernathey notes over at TransAdvocate: You too can become a Boston TDOR sponsor. You can make MTPC’s TDOR page look like a sponsored [...]
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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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