TERF attempts to censor LGBT magazine
OutSmart magazine asked me to write a piece on the TERF phenomena. My 2500+ word article featured just two sentences that mentioned Cathy Brennan’s behavior. Cathy Brennan – a Maryland attorney, activist, leader and a public face of TERFism – is demanding that my article be edited so that it remains silent about her behavior in the modern TERF movement. Lie for me or else! Brennan asserted that she’s hired lawyers to successfully go after other media outlets for their coverage of her behavior in the past. Brennan wrote, “Neither I nor any organization I work with has any connection to right wing organisations. It’s simply false.” She then claimed that the article needed to be “corrected” to promote the fiction that she’s not worked with the Pacific Justice Institute in targeting a Colorado trans kid, Jane Doe. Here are the 2 sentences with which Brennan takes issue: Recently, Cathy
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Community significance
“TERF attempts to censor LGBT magazine” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. 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 2013 at The TERFs, “TERF attempts to censor LGBT magazine” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“TERF attempts to censor LGBT magazine” 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 media, rhetoric, and discourse.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication51%
- 3Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life29%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community16%
- 5Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life14%
- 6Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community6%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 250%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history186
- Community and organizing161
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization112
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse76
- Law and civil rights69
- Culture, identity, and representation68
- Education and youth52
- Healthcare and medicine48
- History, archives, and memory42
- Science, evidence, and expertise33
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Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Kat
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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