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Ask Matt: What is My Sexual Identity?

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0646-09D2 Permanent resolver

A reader writes: “I am having issues determining my sexual identity since transition from female to male. Dating and having a relationship are things I […]

Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

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

No dominant policy frame was detected automatically. Editors can add a policy significance note when the article has institutional or regulatory implications not captured by the local analysis.

Content analysis

Themes and framings

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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

Peak year indexed to 100

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

mkailey

39 publications · 7 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cooke

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

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

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

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

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

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

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

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

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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Related academic framing

1995: Transgender = Umbrella Term

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/11/1995, Page 1 Iowa City approves state’s 1st transgender protection By Brad Hahn News correspondent IOWA CITY — Iowa City will be the first city…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0014-EB31
Related academic framing

Ask Matt: What Are the Most Common Trans-Related Questions You Get?

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

A reader writes: I’m FTM, still in the closet, and I was wondering: What are the most common questions you get? I would like to […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0762-7A5B
Related academic framing

1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0293-F190
Policy implications

Argentina’s Gender Identity Law Being Debated

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

When same gender marriage was passed last year in Argentina, the GL groups there in the wake of their happiness over its passage and being […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0937-814D