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“Lesbian Erasure” as Code Talk for Trans Bashing

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On WMST-L (a large Women’s Studies Listserv with over 5,000 members from around the Globe) there has been a thread with quite a few responses […]

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How “Feminism and gender politics” 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.

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  1. Transadvocate.com178
  2. The TERFs97
  3. Cristan’s Research3

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history178
  2. Community and organizing132
  3. Violence, safety, and dehumanization90
  4. Media, rhetoric, and discourse79
  5. Culture, identity, and representation63
  6. Law and civil rights61
  7. Education and youth46
  8. History, archives, and memory45
  9. Healthcare and medicine41
  10. Science, evidence, and expertise35

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  2. Historical analysis78
  3. Critical theory55
  4. Media and discourse analysis50
  5. Clinical and medical analysis45
  6. Psychological analysis45
  7. Qualitative and interview research22
  8. Ethical analysis20

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  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination27
  3. Criminal justice and public safety22
  4. Research ethics and data governance14
  5. Housing and social services9
  6. Education policy8
  7. Labor and employment policy7
  8. Elections and democratic governance6

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Joelle

7 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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Cooke

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Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Dana.Taylor

4 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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