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Alice Dreger Destroys Academic Freedom in Order to Save It It is an old adage that “crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” […]

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This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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  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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  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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  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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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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1974: Transies

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Tenderloin Transies Protest Thirty-three drag queens were evicted from their apartments in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, triggering protests from TVs and TSs who live in that…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0069-E7C7
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Transman Civil War Hero?

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I won’t lie, I’m a lover of history. One of the the blogs I regularly read is Civil War Women. The blog is thick with […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1219-23FD
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The History

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This Collective article record was generated from public information supplied by or discovered on the member publication. Editors may revise the record directly; the source text itself remains…

The TERFsCAN-0000-0332-9D0A
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For Matters of Disclosure, I Open Myself To You

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The post that follows this will discuss Alice Dreger’s “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1216-F32B