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TERFs are the new Westboro Baptist Church

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The Wesboro Baptist Church. It’s been a nuisance to the LGBT community since 1991 when it took its first steps to publicly advocate against gay […]

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Community significance

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

Historical significance

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Policy significance

The article discusses institutions, law, or governance in relation to religion and morality and may help researchers identify practical policy implications.

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Granular comparative context

How “Religion and morality” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 7 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2007.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com126
  2. Cristan’s Research4
  3. The TERFs2

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history105
  2. Law and civil rights74
  3. Education and youth41
  4. Community and organizing31
  5. Violence, safety, and dehumanization31
  6. Family and relationships29
  7. Healthcare and medicine29
  8. Culture, identity, and representation27
  9. Feminism and gender politics24
  10. Media, rhetoric, and discourse24

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis61
  2. Historical analysis27
  3. Clinical and medical analysis26
  4. Psychological analysis21
  5. Media and discourse analysis16
  6. Legal analysis15
  7. Qualitative and interview research14
  8. Critical theory11

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Criminal justice and public safety26
  2. Public accommodations and facilities26
  3. Elections and democratic governance25
  4. Civil rights and anti-discrimination23
  5. Research ethics and data governance10
  6. Administrative classification and identity documents9
  7. Family law and child welfare8
  8. Labor and employment policy8

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Article authors

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Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 14 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

Kat

59 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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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Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

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