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Open Letter To My Black Transbrothers

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Dear Transbrothers, Ever since I met Alexander John Goodrum at the 1999 Creating Change in Oakland I have been in love with y’all and […]

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Community significance

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

Historical significance

This record may have historical value because it preserves or interprets source material concerning community and organizing and situates it within a chronology, archive, or first-person account.

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Granular comparative context

How “Community and organizing” 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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1 1016

4 2004

8 2005

6 2006

29 2007

36 2008

21 2009

7 2010

71 2011

63 2012

127 2013

74 2014

15 2015

13 2016

33 2017

23 2018

8 2019

1 2020

1 2021

1 2022

1 2025

Presence by member publication

Transadvocate.com462
The TERFs47
Cristan’s Research34

Frequently co-occurring concepts

Transgender identity and history469
Law and civil rights255
Culture, identity, and representation151
History, archives, and memory150
Education and youth150
Violence, safety, and dehumanization149
Media, rhetoric, and discourse133
Feminism and gender politics132
Public policy and governance109
Labor, economics, and institutions97

Academic framings in this topic

Interpretive analysis236
Historical analysis198
Clinical and medical analysis73
Media and discourse analysis70
Psychological analysis67
Qualitative and interview research66
Critical theory54
Archival research40

Policy framings in this topic

Civil rights and anti-discrimination109
Public accommodations and facilities83
Criminal justice and public safety68
Elections and democratic governance58
Research ethics and data governance44
Housing and social services26
Administrative classification and identity documents21
Labor and employment policy17

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1 2014

Collective citation

Monica Roberts

Cristan Williams · February 16, 2014

Open Letter To My Black Transbrothers

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Article authors

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monica_roberts

74 publications · 8 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

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.