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Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz

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Coming up on the two year anniversary of the Human Right Campaign’s (HRC) support of Barney Frank dropping gender identity from the 2007 Employment Non-discrimination […]

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How “Labor, economics, and institutions” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2011.

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com163
  2. Cristan’s Research14
  3. The TERFs5

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history161
  2. Law and civil rights122
  3. Community and organizing97
  4. Public policy and governance54
  5. Education and youth50
  6. Culture, identity, and representation49
  7. Family and relationships45
  8. History, archives, and memory40
  9. Media, rhetoric, and discourse31
  10. Healthcare and medicine29

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  1. Interpretive analysis77
  2. Historical analysis64
  3. Clinical and medical analysis25
  4. Psychological analysis24
  5. Qualitative and interview research24
  6. Empirical and quantitative research17
  7. Legal analysis16
  8. Media and discourse analysis11

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  1. Civil rights and anti-discrimination57
  2. Labor and employment policy34
  3. Elections and democratic governance34
  4. Public accommodations and facilities31
  5. Criminal justice and public safety24
  6. Research ethics and data governance11
  7. Housing and social services8
  8. Education policy6

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Article authors

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Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Kelli

32 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

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

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, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

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

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

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Historical context

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Counterpoint

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