TransAdvocate Suspending Its MichFest Petition Signature
On the evening of April 8, 2015, The TransAdvocate editors came to a unanimous decision to suspend our signature on the Equality Michigan petition asking […]
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
- Transadvocate.com840
- Cristan’s Research83
- The TERFs52
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing469
- Law and civil rights424
- Education and youth273
- Culture, identity, and representation270
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
- History, archives, and memory214
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
- Healthcare and medicine197
- Public policy and governance181
- Feminism and gender politics178
Academic framings in this topic
- Interpretive analysis442
- Historical analysis278
- Clinical and medical analysis165
- Psychological analysis138
- Qualitative and interview research112
- Media and discourse analysis103
- Critical theory72
- Empirical and quantitative research62
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
- Criminal justice and public safety119
- Elections and democratic governance94
- Research ethics and data governance71
- Labor and employment policy39
- Housing and social services38
- Administrative classification and identity documents35
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References over time
Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesRepeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
To that end, the TransAdvocate has asked that our names be removed from the Equality Michigan petition calling for a boycott of MichFest as our good-faith effort to engage MichFest in dialogue with the goal of a reconciliation that will bring an end to decades of trauma for the MichFest,…
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