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A Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight

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An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, […]

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How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 8 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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  1. Transadvocate.com462
  2. The TERFs47
  3. Cristan’s Research34

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history469
  2. Law and civil rights255
  3. Culture, identity, and representation151
  4. History, archives, and memory150
  5. Education and youth150
  6. Violence, safety, and dehumanization149
  7. Media, rhetoric, and discourse133
  8. Feminism and gender politics132
  9. Public policy and governance109
  10. Labor, economics, and institutions97

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  1. Interpretive analysis236
  2. Historical analysis198
  3. Clinical and medical analysis73
  4. Media and discourse analysis70
  5. Psychological analysis67
  6. Qualitative and interview research66
  7. Critical theory54
  8. Archival research40

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  1. Civil rights and anti-discrimination109
  2. Public accommodations and facilities83
  3. Criminal justice and public safety68
  4. Elections and democratic governance58
  5. Research ethics and data governance44
  6. Housing and social services26
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents21
  8. Labor and employment policy17

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Cristan Williams · March 15, 2014

An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, how these biases relate to the fetishization of trans people, how it impacts the perception of trans people in queer spaces, and how these…

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Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 9 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 14 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

5 publications · 3 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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