Filisa Vistima’s Diary
Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman from Seattle. She volunteered at the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC). On March 6, 1993 Filisa took her own life. What you’re about to read are her own words from her own journal… November 3, 1992: Sometimes when I am walking outside on a clear night I will look up and try to find my home among the stars. I must try to do something out of my bedroom. I am becoming depressed, suicidal even. I spent the entire day inside. Um, yes, I did say suicidal. I have a steady stream of thoughts about utter hopelessness, thoughts about where to kill myself and how, that won’t just go away. Maybe if I did get a job it would only make me suffer longer. I don’t like to see living things suffer. I wanted to do so many things. I wanted to help
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Filisa Vistima’s Diary” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. 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 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “Filisa Vistima’s Diary” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship diagram distinguishes sub-themes, siblings, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life50%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life43%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community41%
- 5Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication29%
- 6Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life24%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 291%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
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Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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