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Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?

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During the HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum John Edwards was asked: MR. SOLOMONESE: Susan Stanton is in our audience tonight. She was, for 17 years, the city […]

Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

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

As a dated publication record, this article provides evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at the time it appeared and can be compared with earlier and later Collective coverage.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected automatically. Editors can add a policy significance note when the article has institutional or regulatory implications not captured by the local analysis.

Content analysis

Themes and framings

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing469
  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis278
  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities170
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. 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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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Related authors in the Collective corpus

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.

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.

Contextual research path

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Case Study

Am I A Liar?

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

I had someone IM me off of OkCupid and ask me about my profile. They liked my writing style and asked me a lot of questions about profile…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1155-5A01
Historical context

1983: The Uninvited Dilemma and “Transgender”

Supplies historical or archival context for the issue discussed here.

The Uninvited Dilemma was thought of as one of the most important trans books of its time. The Uninvited Dilemma, has been quoted and referenced countless times in…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0129-B942
Practical Guidance

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0202-1E66
Related academic framing

1991: Transgender = Transsexual

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

HAGERSTOWN (AP) – Four years ago, Debbie Reefer could not have played on a women’s softball team because she was a man. “I was a typical beer-drinking, head-busting…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0015-0B12