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  1. Interview with Alonzo Wesley

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wesley, Alonzo
    Date: Aug. 13, 2015
    Topics: Black people, Black people--Race identity, Celebrities, Coming out, Disabilities, Discrimination, Drag performance, Family relationships, Friendship, FtMs, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Law enforcement, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Prisons, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Racism, Transgender people
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Alonzo Wesley is a Black transgender man from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Wesley was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Wesley reflects on his experiences living in Minneapo...
  2. Interview with Andrea Anderson

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Anderson, Andrea
    Date: Apr. 26, 2016
    Topics: Atlantic Coast (North America), Childhood, Communities, Discrimination, Drag performance, Emigration and immigration law, Employment discrimination, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Immigration, Latin Americans, Latinos, Law enforcement, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ poetry, Love, Machismo, Marriage, Middle West, Misogyny, MtFs, Politics, Prisons, Race, Racism, Religion, Sex, Sexism, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Suicide, Transgender people, Work
    Subject: Andrea Anderson, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Westside Clinic
    Description: Andrea Anderson is a Latina trans woman from Mexico City and Minnesota. In this oral history, Anderson details her experiences immigrating from Mexico to the United States. She also speaks about he...
  3. Interview with Andrea Jenkins

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activism, African American transgender people, Assigned gender, Black people--Race identity, Depression, Divorce, Education, Ethnicity, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Health, Historians, Hormones, Labour, Medical care, Middle West, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, People with disabilities, Politics, Pronoun, Prostitution, Religions, Sexism, Sexual assault, Social advocacy, Social media, Social movements, Therapies, Transgender people, Two-spirit people, Women, Black, Work
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Lisa Vecoli, Program in Human Sexuality, Trans Equity Summit, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Andrea Jenkins is a Black trans-feminine person raised in Chicago. At the time of this interview, she was the Oral Historian for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. This is the second of ...
  4. Interview with Ash (Ashley) Scott

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Scott, Ash (Ashley)
    Date: Oct. 29, 2015
    Topics: African American transgender people, Appearance, Black, Black people--Race identity, Bullying, Communication, Dating, Disabilities, Discrimination, Drag kings, Drag performance, Family relationships, Femininities, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Gender-affirming care, Health, Hormone therapy, Language, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Masculinities, Medical care, Mental health, Middle West, Military, Native American transgender people, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Race, Racially mixed people, Racism, Schools, Surgery, Therapies, Veterans, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ash Scott is a Blackfoot Indian/Irish/African American trans guy living in Minneapolis. He discusses his early life, family relationships, and being in the army when he identified as a lesbian duri...
  5. Interview with Ash Farah

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Farah, Ash
    Date: Jun. 1, 2017
    Topics: Atlantic Coast (North America), Bisexuality, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Community life, Discrimination, Education, Emigration and immigration, Exorcism, Family relationships, Friendship, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hijab (Islamic clothing), Homelessness, Intersex, Intersex people, Love, Middle West, Migrants, Misogyny, Nativism, Racism, Religion, Religions, Same-sex marriage, Sex, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender youth
    Subject: Avenues for Homeless Youth, Barack Obama, CeCe McDonald, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Out Front, Roxanne Anderson, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ash Farah is a East African/Black trans man who has lived in New York, Minnesota, and "the middle part of East Africa". A the time of this interview he was attending college in Minneapolis. In this...
  6. Interview with Gloria Allen

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Allen, Gloria
    Date: Apr. 26, 2016
    Topics: Actors, Art, Biracial transgender people, Black people, Church, Community life, Discrimination, Education, Entertainers, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Love, Marriage, Mentoring, Middle West, Nurses, Older people, Racially mixed people, Religion, Sex, Singers, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transitioning (Gender), Women, Work
    Subject: Center on Halstead, Charm (play), Charm school, Gloria Allen, Mixed Blood Theater, Precious Davis, Trans 100 Legacy Award, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halst...
  7. Interview with Hunta Williams

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Williams, Hunta, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 18, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Anti-transgender violence, Atlantic Coast (North America), Black people--Race identity, Coming out, Community life, Cooks, Deaf people, Discrimination, Education, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, FtMs, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Health care, Hormones, Law enforcement, LGBTQ+ Deaf people, LGBTQ+ visibility, Love, Medical care, Middle West, Parents of transgender people, Police brutality, Prisons, Race, Racism, Sex, Social movements, Surgery, Transgender people, Work
    Subject: Hunta Williams, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Hunta Williams is a deaf, black trans man. Williams grew up in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Minneapolis to attend culinary school. From a young age, he felt “different” than his peers, always playing ...
  8. Interview with Jae Bates

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Bates, Jae
    Date: Jun. 28, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Activism, Adoption, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Asian American transgender people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Diabetes, Discrimination, Education, Family relationships, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health insurance, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Medical care, Middle West, Partners of transgender people, Race, Racism, Sexuality, Social movements, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia, Verbal abuse, Youth
    Subject: Korean War, OutFront Minnesota, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vietnam War
    Description: Jae Bates is a Korean American trans man who grew up near Hopkins, Minnesota. In this oral history, Bates details childhood experiences of gender and race, including narratives of bullying, transph...
  9. Interview with June Remus, Part 1 of 2

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Remus, June
    Date: Aug. 5, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Celebrities, Children, Christianity, Community life, Discos, Divorce, Drag performance, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Grandchildren, Health, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Mentoring, Middle West, MtFs, Race, Racism, Religion, Religions, Retirement, Sex, Sexuality, Social integration, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Strippers, Transgender youth, Transsexual people, Women
    Subject: June Remus, Transgender Equity Summit, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality
    Description: June Remus, also known as Mama June or Big Mama, is a Black female from Des Moines, Iowa. This is the first of two oral histories the Tretter Collection holds between Jenkins and Remus. At the time...
  10. Interview with Kya Concepcion

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Concepcion, Kya
    Date: Oct. 24, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Battering, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Black transgender people, Bullying, Cherokee women, Clubs, Cocaine, Coming out, Community life, Drug addiction, Education, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Healing, Homelessness, Intersex, Intersex people of color, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ people with addictions, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Middle West, Native American . . ., Native American transgender people, People with disabilities, Psychotherapy, Race, Racially mixed people, Racism, Religion, Rural development, Sex work, Sexual abuse, Sexuality, Social movements, Southern States, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Substance abuse, Tomboys, Transgender people, White transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to child abuse and sexual assault.
  11. Interview with Kye Allums

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Allums, Kye
    Date: Sep. 4, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Bisexuals, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Coming out, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Community life, Education, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Mentoring, Middle West, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Racism, Self-esteem, Sexual orientation, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Fearless Project, Gay and Lesbian Sports Education Network, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Hancock Recreation Center, Jeff Sheng, National Black Justice Coalition, RECLAIM!, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Kye Allums is a Black queer fluid trans person from Minnesota who goes by he and they. In this oral history, Allums speaks at length about playing Division I basketball for George Washington Univer...
  12. Interview with Lawrence Tanner Richardson

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Richardson, Lawrence Tanner
    Date: Jun. 10, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Androgyny, Assigned gender, Bisexuality, Black people--Race identity, Child abuse, Christianity, Community life, Depression, Drug abuse, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Gender-affirming care, Homeless people, Identity, Language, Law enforcement, Loneliness, Love, Marriage, Menstruation, Mental disorders, Middle West, Police, Prisons, Puberty, Race, Racism, Religion, Role behavior, Self-acceptance, Separation, Sex, Sexual orientation, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, OutFront Minnesota, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Lawrence Tanner Richardson is a Black trans man from St. Paul, Minnesota. He talks about his childhood, including being raised by his grandmother and being very involved in the Southern Baptist chu...
  13. Interview with Lourdes Ashley Hunter

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
    Date: Mar. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Activists, Assigned gender, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Bullying, Christianity, Community life, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Genocide, Hair--Removal, Healing, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Liberation movements, Mentoring, Middle West, Race, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sex work, Social movements, Social work with youth, Transgender people, Violence
    Subject: Barack Obama, Creating Change, Ellie Ford, Islan Nettles, Laverne Cox, Queers for Economic Justice, Slyvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Justice, Trans Youth Group, TransWomen of Color Collective, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Women's March
    Description: Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black tr...
  14. Interview with Melinda Lee

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Lee, Melinda
    Date: Aug. 17, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Asian Americans, Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, Atlantic Coast (North America), Dating, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Labeling, Language, LGBTI community, Love, Middle West, Politics, Pronoun, Race, Racism, Rape, Schools, Sex, Sexual orientation, Social media, Social movements, Surgery, Transphobia, Violence, White supremacy movements--United States, Work
    Subject: Black and Pink, Khmer Rouge, Lobby Days, OutFront Minnesota, The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans, Trans Advisory and Action Team, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Melinda Lee is a Cambodian-American, Vietnamese-American, and Chinese-American gender non-conforming, non-binary person from Long Beach, California. At the time of this oral history interview, they...
  15. Interview with Nick Metcalf

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Metcalf, Nick
    Date: May 10, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Assigned gender, Bullying, Community life, Discrimination, Drag, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender identity, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, Middle West, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Navajo Indians, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexuality, Social movements, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Afro Elegance, American Indian Movement, Brandon Lacy Campos, Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council, Gay Student Association, Man to Man, Minnesota Men of Color, Richard La Fortune, RuPaul, Ryan White Program, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Nick Metcalf is an American Indian Two-Spirit person born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation located in South Dakota. At the time of this interview, Metcalf was working in the Twin Cities. In th...