How the Disease of St. Barney’s Dance Has Dumbed-Down Anti-Discrimination Discourse
From Facebook: Now, Tom is just pointing to a stealth-obnoxious piece in the Boston Herald about Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s recent trans executive order. The fact that its author, Hillary Chabot, saw fit to allow this spin gem says plenty: “If this indeed is a bathroom bill, if it is there’s no doubt that it will impact the public schools,” said Kris Mineau, a longtime opponent of the bill. Except, of course, that it is a state-level executive order. State-level public universities? Well, I’d hope it would affect them. But I posted that scrensnap because of the comment to Tom’s posting. In part: Tom, I am not sure if I would feel comfortable using the ladies room if a guy was standing there using a urinal…. Think about that. Now especially think about that in relation to the use of women’s restrooms by transsexual women! And think about that in
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“How the Disease of St. Barney’s Dance Has Dumbed-Down Anti-Discrimination Discourse” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “How the Disease of St. Barney’s Dance Has Dumbed-Down Anti-Discrimination Discourse” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is elections and democratic governance and civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and media, rhetoric, and discourse, 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
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life83%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 283%
- 363%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 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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Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
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