On policing RuPaul’s “free speech”
I think the freedom of speech and policing arguments that have popped up around RuPaul are entirely disingenuous. Nobody is stopping RuPaul Andre Charles from using these terms as much […]
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How “Media, rhetoric, and discourse” appears across the Collective corpus
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- Transadvocate.com232
- The TERFs17
- Cristan’s Research11
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- Transgender identity and history218
- Community and organizing133
- Law and civil rights100
- Feminism and gender politics79
- Culture, identity, and representation77
- Education and youth69
- History, archives, and memory64
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization63
- Science, evidence, and expertise49
- Healthcare and medicine48
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- Interpretive analysis93
- Media and discourse analysis90
- Historical analysis89
- Clinical and medical analysis43
- Psychological analysis43
- Qualitative and interview research39
- Critical theory36
- Empirical and quantitative research16
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- Civil rights and anti-discrimination35
- Criminal justice and public safety28
- Elections and democratic governance24
- Research ethics and data governance17
- Education policy13
- Administrative classification and identity documents11
- Housing and social services10
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Within drag culture, tranny has an in-group meaning that does not mean what the rest of the world means when they use the term. For the rest of the world, tranny is a term one might use while beating or killing a trans person. RuPaul believes that because his in-group…
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