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  1. Ash Stephens Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Ash Stephens
    Date: Apr. 19, 2019
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black people, Butches, Change of name, Childhood, Christianity, Education, Family members, Femininities, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Higher education, Lesbian culture, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Military, Older people, Police patrol--Surveillance operations, Politics, Pronoun, Religions, Social classes, Soft butches, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Bible Belt, Black Hollywood, Brooklyn Bail Fund, Georgia Southern University, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Description: Ash recounts growing up in a southern Bible Belt community. He details his journey from Georgia to Chicago where he completed his higher-level education and met his “chosen family.” Ash is currentl...
  2. Interview with Chishaun (CeCe) McDonald

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: McDonald, Chishaun Reed Mai'luv (CeCe)
    Date: Nov. 27, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Assigned gender, Black people, Christianity, Coming out, Courts, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Families, Femmes, Gay boys, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Neonazism, Physical violence, Prisons, Racism, Role behavior, Sissies, Suicide, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Angela Davis, Brandon Teena, Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Dean Spade, Dorothy Day Shelter, Free CeCe, George Zimmerman, Honey Bear Royal, Howard Brown Center, Jerry Springer Show, Laverne Cox, Magic Johnson, Marci Bowers, Matthew Shepherd, Normal Life, The New Jim Crowe, Trayvon Martin
    Description: CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this ...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. J. Soto Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Soto, J., Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Oct. 20, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Artists, Arts, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gay community, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Language, LGBTQ+ relationships, Migration, Night life, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: J. Soto
    Description: J. Soto recounts his evolving understanding of gender and identity along his eastward migration across the United States. Born and raised in the Bay Area, J. attended graduate school in Chicago, IL...
  6. Oral History Interview with Erika Joyner

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Joyner, Erika
    Date: Sep. 29, 2016
    Topics: Bi+ people, Christianity, LGBTQ+ musicians, Public bathroom bills, Trans women, Transgender activism
    Subject: 1968 Democratic Convention, Appalantic Federation of Co-ops, Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Loose Gravel, Metropolitan Community Church, People Against Racism, Roanoke Diversity Center, Students for a Democratic Society, The New Left, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Wayne State Univeresity
    Description: Interviewers: Rebecca Proctor, Kalyn Fowler Interviewee: Erika Joyner Date: 29 September 2016 Duration: 57:17 Transcription prepared by: Kalyn Fowler and Sarah Groft