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When Will I See Black Trans Characters Like Edie Stokes Again?

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Source Summary

Back in 1977, in the Jefferson’s fourth season we were introduced to George’s old Navy buddy who was in New York to visit for a few days. George’s buddy had a reputation in the Navy as a practical jokester and he was eager to see his old friend. However, there had been some major changes in the intervening years since George had seen his old buddy, and he was shocked to discover Edie’s transition. He handled their initial meeting badly, but by the end of the show came to accept his old friend and even fell for one of her jokes. I wish they had made Edie a recurring character, because people needed to know that Black transpeople existed, and not just as ‘tragic transsexuals’ or exotic chocolate sex fantasies. I’m tired of seeing it, and so is the rest of Black trans America. One of the things I’ve noted

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Community significance

“When Will I See Black Trans Characters Like Edie Stokes Again?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to race and intersectionality, 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “When Will I See Black Trans Characters Like Edie Stokes Again?” provides dated evidence of how race and intersectionality 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.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to race and intersectionality 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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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
24%

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
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Elections and democratic governance
75%

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This article appeared 3 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2014.

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monica_roberts

74 publications · 88 inbound sources/citations