The Rayon Effect: What Cisgender Actors Bring To Transgender Characters
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, 2013 saw the release of Dallas Buyers Club, co-starring Jared Leto as a transgender woman named […]
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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
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
- Transadvocate.com840
- Cristan’s Research83
- The TERFs52
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing469
- Law and civil rights424
- Education and youth273
- Culture, identity, and representation270
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
- History, archives, and memory214
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
- Healthcare and medicine197
- Public policy and governance181
- Feminism and gender politics178
Academic framings in this topic
- Interpretive analysis442
- Historical analysis278
- Clinical and medical analysis165
- Psychological analysis138
- Qualitative and interview research112
- Media and discourse analysis103
- Critical theory72
- Empirical and quantitative research62
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
- Criminal justice and public safety119
- Elections and democratic governance94
- Research ethics and data governance71
- Labor and employment policy39
- Housing and social services38
- Administrative classification and identity documents35
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesE Jessica Groothuis
The Rayon Effect: What Cisgender Actors Bring To Transgender Characters
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Mari
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Media, rhetoric, and discourse, Transgender identity and history.
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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