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Interview with Jessi Brandon
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Brandon, Jessi, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Nov. 27, 2016 Topics: Autism spectrum disorders, Bisexuality, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Boarding schools, Christianity, Community life, Discrimination against people with disabilities, Education, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender minorities, Gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ disabled people, Masculinities, Neurotic disorders, Politics, Religion, Resistance movements, Sexual orientation, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people Subject: Jessi Brandon, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Trump Administration Description: Jessi Brandon is a Black non-binary demiboy from Germany and Alabama. At the time of this interview, Brandon was a student at Macalester College. In this oral history, Brandon speaks at length abou... -
Interview with Jessica Polacek
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Polacek, Jessica Date: Aug. 17, 2016 Topics: Army, Child abuse, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Community life, Discrimination, Divorce, Family, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Income, Interpersonal relations, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Mental disorders, Mental health, Middle West, Military bases, Nineteen eighties, Nineteen seventies, Parenthood, Passing (Identity), Religion, Sex, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people in the military, Wealth, Work Subject: Jessica Polacek, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Veteran’s Administration hospital Description: Jessica Polacek is a white woman of transgender history. At the time of this interview, Polacek was living in Wisconsin and working at an LGBT center. In this oral history Polacek speaks about livi... -
Interview with Joe Ippolito
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Ippolito, Joe Date: Sep. 3, 2015 Topics: Aging, Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Coming out, Community life, Education, Educators, Employment discrimination, Friendship, FtMs, Gender-affirming care, Health, Heterosexuality, Hormones, Jews, LGBTQ+ relationships, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Mental health, Middle West, Race, Roman catholicism, Sex, Surgery, Therapists, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity Subject: Gender Reel, Joe Ippolito, Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Philadelphia| psychology, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Description: Joe Ippolito is a white trans man who grew up in Florida. In this oral history, he talks about establishing the Gender Reel festival, chairing the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, and providin... -
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... -
Interview with June Remus, Part 2 of 2
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Remus, June Date: Sep. 2, 2016 Topics: Activists, Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Children, Christianity, Community life, Discos, Divorce, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Grandchildren, Health, LGBTQ+ families, Marriage, Medical care, Mentoring, MtFs, Race, Racism, Religion, Religions, Retirement, Sexuality, Slurs, 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. At the time of this interview, Remus was a retired caregiver living in Minnesota. This is the second of two... -
Interview with Karl Meyer
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Meyer, Karl, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Oct. 5, 2015 Topics: Art, Community life, Dating, Discrimination, Education, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Health, Income, LGBTQ+ parents, Love, Medical care, Mental health, Middle West, Religion, Religions, Sex, Sexual relationships, Sexuality, Social classes, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Wealth, Whites--Race identity, Youth Subject: Tretter Collection Autogynephilia, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Description: Karl Meyer is a white autogynephilic gender non-conforming person from Faribault, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Meyer was a writer and a researcher pursuing what he calls divine-source ... -
Interview with Kate Bornstein
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Bornstein, Kate Date: Aug. 20, 2015 Topics: Activists, BDSM, Cancer, Drag, Dramatists, Families, Gender minorities, History, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Phone sex, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Visibility, Writers Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Kate Bornstein, Lou Sullivan Description: Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, advocate and pioneer in the trans community. In this oral history, Bornstein shares her experiences transitioning over 30 years ago. From drag bars to phone... -
Interview with Lane Cunningham
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Cunningham, Lane, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Aug. 11, 2015 Topics: Bullying, FtMs, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Masculinities, Musicians, Visibility Description: In this oral history, Cunningham recounts his childhood awareness of his masculinity and his boredom in school. He details his process of coming out as trans and his experimentation with masculinit... -
Interview with Laura Jane Grace
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Grace, Laura Jane, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Jun. 15, 2016 Topics: Adolescence, Art, Bars (Drinking establishments), Bisexuality, Celebrities, Coming out, Community life, Creative activities and seat work, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Discrimination in medical care, Education, Families of military personnel, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ parenthood, Love, Marriage, Mental health, MtFs, Music, Privilege (Social psychology), Sex, Southern States, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Women Subject: Against Me!, An Act to Provide for Single-sex Multiple Occupancy Bathroom and Changing Facilities in Schools and Public Agencies and to Create Statewide Consistency in Regulation of Employment and Public Accommodations, HB2, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Description: Laura Jane Grace is a female from Florida who uses she and they. At the time of this interview, Grace was working as a musician for the band Against Me! In this oral history, Grace reflects upon mo... -
Interview with Mara Glubka
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Glubka, Mara, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Apr. 11, 2016 Topics: Celebrities, Coming out, Community life, Discrimination, Divorce, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Happiness, Harassment, Health, Hormone therapy, Legal name, Love, Medical care, Middle West, MtFs, Parenthood, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Religion, Sex, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Work Subject: An Act to Provide for Single-sex Multiple Occupancy Bathroom and Changing Facilities in Schools and Public Agencies and to Create Statewide Consistency in Regulation of Employment and Public Accommodations, Christine Jorgensen, HB2, Mara Glubka, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Description: Mara Glubka is a white transgender woman born and raised in Winona, MN. At the time of this interview, Glubka was retired and living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Glubka talks about her child... -
Interview with Monica Cross
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Cross, Monica, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Feb. 6, 2017 Topics: Black people, Clergy, Counseling, Discrimination, Gender minorities, Grandparents, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Navy, Passing (Gender), Spirituality, Suicide, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), White nationalism, White supremacy movements Subject: Authenticity and Imagination in the Face of Oppression, Monica Cross, Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women, Tapestry Ministries, The Collaborative Community Planning Council Description: onica Joy Cross is a Pastor at First Christian Church of Oakland and Associate Pastor at Tapestry Ministries in Berkeley, who identifies as Black and trans. In this oral history, she shares many of... -
Interview with Oliver Schminkey
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Schminkey, Oliver, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Aug. 18, 2015 Topics: Coming out, Dating, LGBTQ+ poetry, Polyamory, Sexuality, Students, Transgender people Description: Oliver Schminkey is a non-binary transgender person who attends Macalester College. They describe the troubles they face with faculty, dating, family and finding work as a non-binary person. Schmin... -
Interview with Paula Overby
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Overby, Paula, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Nov. 16, 2015 Topics: Crossdressers, Divorce, Marriage, Politics, Sexuality, Theatre, Transgender rights Subject: Confessions of a Crossdresser Description: In this oral history, Paula Overby describes her lifelong experiences with her sexuality and gender identity. Her political commitment in clear in this interview: she discusses current LGBT politic... -
Interview with Phillipe Cunningham
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Cunningham, Phillipe, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Sep. 25, 2015 Topics: Black people, Bullying, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, FtMs, Gay community, Gender minorities Description: In this powerful oral history, Phillipe Cunningham shares his experiences as Black trans man with a complicated history of gendered and sexual identities. -
Interview with Renata Garcia and Jennicet Gutierrez
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Garcia, Renata, Gutierrez, Jennicet, Jenkins, Andrea Date: Oct. 3, 2015 Topics: Activists, Alien detention centers, Catholic Church, Dating, Families, Hormones, Illegal residents, Immigrants, MtFs, Sexuality, Transgender people Subject: Bamby Salcedo, Barack Obama, FAMILIA Trans Queer Liberation Movement, Jennicet Gutierrez, Renata Garcia, Trans Latina Coalition Description: Renata Garcia and Jennicet Gutierrez participate in a mediated conversation with Andrea Jenkins, sharing their experiences as immigrant Latina trans women living in the United States. While Garcia ...
