Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke
Over at PHB, Monica Roberts commented: When multiple civil rights attorneys tell me it won’t do what EQ MD claims it will, the bill needs to die. Naturally, Laurelurleen Ramseyerogovitch chimed in afterward. But, more interesting than any of the sock’s puppeting (something about her trying to tell Monica that Monica was “missing the point”; memo to Monica: I’d consider that to be an endorsement) was this: In case your monitor’s graphics aren’t up to par, I’ll repeat the, um…, interesting line: f we in trans community accept antitransgender sentiment from legislators as a reason to kill this far from perfect bill, then there is something wrong with us as a community. Ummmm….Autumn? Seriously… Autumn? I’m over here. Doesn’t the entire premise of HB235 – that affording trans people the same “public accommodations” rights that homosexuals wrote into law for themselves a decade ago doesn’t comfortably (read: apparently some margin
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights 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 civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights 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.
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Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community66%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community50%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 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
- Transgender identity and history468
- Community and organizing300
- Public policy and governance165
- Education and youth151
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization146
- Culture, identity, and representation145
- Labor, economics, and institutions136
- Family and relationships130
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse119
- History, archives, and memory117
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