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  1. Christian Appel Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Appel, Christian, Martinez, Dinick
    Date: May 8, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Body image, Childhood, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender diversity, Higher education, Hormones, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Oppression, Sexuality, Spirituality
    Subject: Christian Appel, SAGE, Trans Generational Theater Project
    Description: Christian Appel grew up in New Rochelle, escaping to find community in New York's party scene (particularly the Motherfucker parties) and at IDA, a queer gardening farmstead in Tennessee. She draws...
  2. Elsie Hupp Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Hupp, Elsie, Ramsay, Grace
    Date: Feb. 21, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Christianity, Eating disorders, Education, Feminism, Isolation, Mental health, MtFs, Oppression, Sexual assault, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Babycastles, Boy Scouts, DeviantArt, Elsie Hupp, Myspace, New York University, Twtich
    Description: Elsie grew up middle class in the Midwest where the church was a big presence in her life. Though she encountered a progressiveness in various ways within the religious communities she was part of ...
  3. Fainan Lakha Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lakha, Fainan, Maya, Elliott
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Coming out, Communities, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Islam, Liberation movements, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Fainan Lakha, Laverne Cox
    Description: Fainan Lakha is a student at Columbia majoring in Comparative Literature and Society. She grew up in a Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim community in Seattle and became involved in the Oneness University a...
  4. Free CeCe McDonald Panel

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Cox, Laverne, Gares, Jac, Jenkins, Andrea, McDonald, Chishaun Reed Mai'luv (CeCe)
    Date: Aug. 29, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Actors, Black people, Feminism, Film industry, Gender dysphoria, Imprisonment, Oppression, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Anti Violence Project, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Free CeCe, In The Life, Musical Chairs, Orange is the New Black, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sayuri Hernandez, The Exhibitionist, Transforming, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Unraveled
    Description: Laverne Cox is the executive producer of the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. She plays Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African American transgender woman. Cox is a renowned speaker...
  5. Interview with Alyssandra Taylor

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Taylor, Alyssandra
    Date: May 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Body image, Change of name, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Education, Family members, Femininities, Friendships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Oppression, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Boston Alliance for Gay, Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Alyssandra Taylor is a Black trans woman or sometimes a trans feminine nonbinary person from Boston. She discusses coming out as gay at a young age, and being kicked out when she came out as trans....
  6. Interview with Andrea Abi-Karam

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Abi-Karam, Andrea
    Date: Jun. 21, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Anti-fascism, Body image, Capitalism, Childhood, Counterculture, Depression, Divorce, Family members, Gender minorities, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Insurance, LGBTQ+ poetry, Masculinities, Neofascism, Oppression, Physicians, Prisons, Psychiatrists, Religions, Suburbs, Surgery, Tattoos, Terrorism, Transgender people, Zines
    Subject: Ana Mendieta, Elizabeth Bishop, Ghost Ship Fire, GQ, Maryanne Moore, Mills College, New York Police Department (NYPD), Nighboat Books, Sister Spit, Spraytan, Sylvia Plath, They/Them
  7. Interview with Ben Singer

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Singer, Ben
    Date: Nov. 24, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Activists, Bullying, Butches, Change of name, Coming out, Drag performance, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Education, Family members, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health, Health care, Health insurance, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Nineteen eighties, Oppression, Privilege (Social psychology), Public health, Race, Racism, Rural development, Sexual abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Social movements, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Bridges to Coalition: A Community Forum on Trans Issues, Transgender Health Action Coalition, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the ...
  8. Interview with JAC Stringer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Stringer, JAC
    Date: Feb. 17, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Activists, Androgyny, Assigned gender, Bipolar disorder, Bullying, Childhood and youth, Coming out, Community life, Counseling, Depression, Disabilities, Discrimination, Discrimination against people with disabilities, Drag, Education, Femininities, Friendship, Gender binaries, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health, Health care, Hormones, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medication, Mental health, Misogyny, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Native americans, Oppression, Parents of transgender people, Peace movement, Race, Roman catholicism, Social movements, Suicide, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: JAC Stringer is a Native American two spirit, genderqueer femme trans guy from Ohio. Stringer has founded multiple entities including the Heartland Trans Wellness Group, GenderBLOC, Cincinnati Tran...
  9. Interview with Kylar Broadus

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Broadus, Kylar
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Coming out, Discrimination, Divorce, Drag, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Lawyers, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Malpractice, Masculinities, Oppression, Parenthood, Race, Racism, Religion, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Social movements, Social privilege, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Work
    Subject: Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Billy Tipton, Christine Jorgensen, Creating Change, HBIGDA Standards of Care for Hormonal and Surgical Sex Reassignment of Gender Dysphoric Persons, John Alexander Goodrum, Karen Broadus, Renee Richards, The Program on Human Sexuality, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Kylar Broadus is a Black male from Fayette, Missouri. At the time of this interview, Broadus was working as a lawyer and an activist based out of Washington D.C. In this oral history, Broadus discu...
  10. Interview with Qui Dorian Alexander

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Alexander, Qui Dorian
    Date: Sep. 11, 2017
    Topics: Bible, Black people, Dating, Depression, FtMs, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Imprisonment, Lesbians, Masculinities, Oppression, Parents of transgender people, Partners of transgender people, Sexuality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Adrienne Maree, Brown Boi Project, Charlene Arcila, Emergent Strategy, Mazzoni Center, Reg Ju, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Tiq Milan, Trans Health Conference
    Description: Qui Dorian Alexander is a Puerto Rican/Black/Afro-Latinx trans-masculine non-binary FTM person who goes by he/him and they/them. At the time of this interview, Alexander was a graduate student and ...
  11. Nala Simone Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Simone, Nala, Calou, Yana
    Date: May 9, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Childhood, Clergy, Colleges, Coming out, Drag balls, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormones, Masculinities, Oppression, Racism, Religions, Representation, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Workshops
    Subject: Aaryn Lang, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Lourdes Ashley Hunter, Miss Major, Nala Simone
    Description: Nala Simone is an activist who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Nala begins with her childhood in Bushwick, her time as a fashion design student at the Fashion Institute of Design, and her process ...
  12. Naomi Clark Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Clark, Naomi
    Date: Mar. 3, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Bathrooms, Beauty standards, Change of name, Childhood, Coming out, Dating, Discrimination, Educators, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Internet forums, Isolation, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Social networking websites, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Video games--Design, Work situation
    Subject: Judith Butler, Lambda Legal, Naomi Clark, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Naomi Clark describes her work with hte Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the on-line trans and queer community Strap-On.org, and her career in video game design. She begins her oral history with her chil...
  13. Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Asapansa-Johnson Walker, Tanya
    Date: Apr. 2, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Army, Bullying, Childhood, Christianity, Discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gender identity, Harassment, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Migration, MtFs, Nurses, Oppression, Passing (Gender), Politics, Racism, Resistance movements, Sexual harassment, Sexuality, Social exclusion, Social workers, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Karen Burstein, Paris Is Burning, Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker
    Description: Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker is a co-founder of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she shares her history of LGB and trans activism in New York City. Born on Staten Island, Mis...