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Trolling: The Ultimate Activist Trap

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The Internet is a wild place. It also provides one of the most remarkable resources to any social movement: the capacity to integrate resources and […]

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How “Science, evidence, and expertise” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 4 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com165
  2. Cristan’s Research29
  3. The TERFs10

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history166
  2. Community and organizing86
  3. Healthcare and medicine81
  4. Law and civil rights77
  5. Culture, identity, and representation64
  6. Education and youth62
  7. Media, rhetoric, and discourse49
  8. History, archives, and memory48
  9. Feminism and gender politics35
  10. Family and relationships35

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  1. Clinical and medical analysis72
  2. Historical analysis69
  3. Interpretive analysis64
  4. Psychological analysis61
  5. Empirical and quantitative research30
  6. Media and discourse analysis29
  7. Qualitative and interview research24
  8. Critical theory17

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  1. Public accommodations and facilities28
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination24
  3. Research ethics and data governance20
  4. Criminal justice and public safety18
  5. Elections and democratic governance15
  6. Administrative classification and identity documents9
  7. Housing and social services8
  8. Labor and employment policy8

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Article authors

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Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Kelli

32 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

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