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The Battle For Self Determination Of One’s Own Identity Is A Just One

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0734-7081 Permanent resolver

I’m blessed to have some pretty smart people around me as you can tell by some of the conversations that get started on my Facebook […]

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Community significance

This article may be important to community memory because it documents experiences, arguments, or organizing connected to culture, identity, and representation and makes that material easier to locate alongside related records.

Historical significance

As a dated publication record, this article provides evidence of how culture, identity, and representation was framed at the time it appeared and can be compared with earlier and later Collective coverage.

Policy significance

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Granular comparative context

How “Culture, identity, and representation” 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

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com347
  2. Cristan’s Research43
  3. The TERFs21

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history270
  2. Community and organizing151
  3. Law and civil rights119
  4. Education and youth78
  5. Healthcare and medicine78
  6. Media, rhetoric, and discourse77
  7. Science, evidence, and expertise64
  8. Feminism and gender politics63
  9. Public policy and governance53
  10. Violence, safety, and dehumanization51

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis232
  2. Historical analysis89
  3. Clinical and medical analysis70
  4. Psychological analysis61
  5. Media and discourse analysis44
  6. Qualitative and interview research42
  7. Critical theory40
  8. Empirical and quantitative research18

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities58
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination41
  3. Criminal justice and public safety27
  4. Elections and democratic governance25
  5. Research ethics and data governance24
  6. Administrative classification and identity documents16
  7. Labor and employment policy14
  8. Housing and social services10

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

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Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

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

Cooke

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

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1981: Transgender Identity

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28

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1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely…

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Evidence and documentation

Where Did I Leave My Crow Bar?

Adds research, documentation, or primary-source context.

The Journal of Lesbian Studies is calling for submissions to the upcoming “Lesbians and Body Image” issue. One of the questions really caught my eye: […]

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