When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife
Last week when I posted Tribeca Film Festival Promotes Exploitation of Transgender People, I never thought that the call to action would cause controversy within the GLBT community. As gudbuytjane said about the movie on her blog: I felt sick. I have seen the lives and even the deaths of trans people appropriated by cis LGB culture before, but I didn’t think anyone would be so crass as to describe in lurid detail the deaths of two trans people (ironic in how quickly many cis gays were to distance Jorge Mercado from any sort of trans identity before) to promote a COMEDY. A drag queen comedy directed by a cissexual gay man. Even more troubling is the pornographic description of their deaths. Do cis people not realize how incredibly triggering and damaging it can be having to read the detailed description of how a trans person was murdered? And then
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Community significance
“When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife” 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 2010 at Transadvocate.com, “When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife” 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.
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“When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife” 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.
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- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community50%
- 3Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community36%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life7%
- 5Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life7%
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- 1100%
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- 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
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- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveIsrael Luna’s Piece of Shit So-Called Film (PoSSCF) Scheduled for TDoR Release « Dented Blue Mercedes
[...] When the film first came out and then played the Tribeca Film Festival, many in the LGB community complained that it was GLAAD and trans people who were kicking up a ruckus over nothing. [...]
Knives out for 'Ticked-Off Trannies...' | That Gay Movie - A Gay Movie Blog
[...] also read some real venom directed at the ‘T’ section of the LGBT community (from people commenting on blogs, not the bloggers themselves) and it raises the interesting point [...]
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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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