Taking A Dive For The Cause
It was New Years Eve when I learned of this post, and I’ve spent the last 13 days digging around the radfem blogosphere reading all the posts that sprouted from that initial post. One post in particular caught my attention. As the thread developed you could see each side digging in for the long haul. As of Thursay morning, I stopped posting there because I could feel the negative energy building, which started to wear on me physically and mentally. I’ve been thinking about why it was so important for me to post there after the post went extremely negative. Last night I was reading a post over at Taking Steps. Brownemipower said: “It’s exhausting work, this “proving” shit, and I refuse to spend my time doing it, and I support any one elses right to not do it.” – brownfemipower At the moment I read that I wanted to
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Community significance
“Taking A Dive For The Cause” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging religion and morality. 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 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Taking A Dive For The Cause” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to religion and morality. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“Taking A Dive For The Cause” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with feminism and gender politics. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for religion and morality.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict80%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
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- Overlapping themes
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
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Cristan Williams
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Autumn Sandeen
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Gwen Smith
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TransAdvocate Staff
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