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Filisa Vistima’s Diary

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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 […]

Interpretive context

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Community significance

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

Historical significance

As a dated publication record, this article provides evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at the time it appeared and can be compared with earlier and later Collective coverage.

Policy significance

This article may illuminate policy consequences by connecting transgender identity and history to civil rights and anti-discrimination. The classification is inferred from the article text and remains editable by Collective editors.

Content analysis

Themes and framings

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Granular comparative context

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

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing469
  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis278
  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities170
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Cristan

125 publications · 110 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, Healthcare and medicine.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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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Policy implications

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

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Policy implications

Communities of Ones

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

Like some others in the discussion, I do feel a need to say a few final words on the Old Guard (HBS) versus deconstructionist battle […]

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Policy implications

Improper Purpose

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

Massachusetts recently signed into law an anti-discrimination bill which adds gender identity to its protected classes in the areas of employment and housing only. Gender identity […]

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