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My Body, My Choice

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The following blog post is Audrey Mbugua from of Transgender Kenya. Mbugua works for Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA). TEA is a human rights organization working towards ending human rights violations against transgender and intersex people. Imperialistic Complex Against Transsexual Kenyans “My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest” By Mahatma Gandhi One of Kenya’s notable heroic moments in history is undoubtedly the fight against white rule dating from 1900 to early 1960s. Songs have been sung about this despondent time in Kenya’s history. Some of the heroes of this struggle have been immortalized by naming streets and institutions after them. Students have been forced to invest a great deal of mental energy in reading and re-reading about these heroic and gallant Kenyan warriors and of course there is the national anthem to habitually remind us the sacrifices some Kenyans

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“My Body, My Choice” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging history, archives, and memory. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how history, archives, and memory was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and history, archives, and memory, 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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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

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    27%
  3. 3
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    18%
  4. 4
    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    18%
  5. 5
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    15%
  6. 6
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    12%
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 History, archives, and memory: Separate but related
History, archives, and memory
Transgender identity and history to Community and organizing: Related theme in the same family
Community and organizing
Transgender identity and history to Education and youth: Separate but related
Education and youth
Transgender identity and history to Law and civil rights: Separate but related
Law and civil rights
Transgender identity and history to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
  • Separate but related themes
  • Related theme in the same family
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

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Admin

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

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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