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The Indigo Girls, The Bigotry Of The MWMF WBW Policy, And Peaceful Action

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As Cristan Williams pointed out in her recent Transadvocate piece Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, segregation against trans women has been occurring at that festival for […]

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How “Public policy and governance” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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  1. Transadvocate.com194
  2. Cristan’s Research4
  3. The TERFs4

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history181
  2. Law and civil rights148
  3. Community and organizing109
  4. Labor, economics, and institutions54
  5. Education and youth53
  6. Culture, identity, and representation53
  7. Media, rhetoric, and discourse44
  8. Family and relationships44
  9. Violence, safety, and dehumanization43
  10. History, archives, and memory37

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  1. Interpretive analysis74
  2. Historical analysis57
  3. Clinical and medical analysis36
  4. Psychological analysis29
  5. Media and discourse analysis29
  6. Legal analysis21
  7. Qualitative and interview research21
  8. Critical theory13

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  1. Civil rights and anti-discrimination64
  2. Public accommodations and facilities50
  3. Elections and democratic governance33
  4. Criminal justice and public safety28
  5. Research ethics and data governance22
  6. Labor and employment policy20
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents12
  8. Education policy8

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Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 9 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Cooke

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Marian

7 publications · 9 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

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