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“What’s Between Your Legs?” Is the New “So What Do You Do in Bed?”: Trans Issues In The Media

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By Cathy Renna @cathyrenna Possibly inspired by Laverne Cox and Orange is the New Black, I blurted out the title of this post at a recent […]

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Granular comparative context

How “Media, rhetoric, and discourse” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com232
  2. The TERFs17
  3. Cristan’s Research11

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history218
  2. Community and organizing133
  3. Law and civil rights100
  4. Feminism and gender politics79
  5. Culture, identity, and representation77
  6. Education and youth69
  7. History, archives, and memory64
  8. Violence, safety, and dehumanization63
  9. Science, evidence, and expertise49
  10. Healthcare and medicine48

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis93
  2. Media and discourse analysis90
  3. Historical analysis89
  4. Clinical and medical analysis43
  5. Psychological analysis43
  6. Qualitative and interview research39
  7. Critical theory36
  8. Empirical and quantitative research16

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities60
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination35
  3. Criminal justice and public safety28
  4. Elections and democratic governance24
  5. Research ethics and data governance17
  6. Education policy13
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents11
  8. Housing and social services10

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 11 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

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

Kelli

32 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 14 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

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