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  1. Bianey Garcia Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Garcia, Bianey
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Coming out, Discrimination, Families, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Immigration, Immigration law, Imprisonment, Latin american cultures, Lawyers, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Racism, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Bianey Garcia, Make the Road
    Description: Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities. Born in Veracruz, Mexico and ra...
  2. Cecilia Gentili Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Gentili, Cecilia
    Date: Jul. 14, 2017
    Topics: Addictions, Childhood, Clothing, Dictatorships, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Immigration, Immigration policy, Imprisonment, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Cecilia Gentili, Gay Men's Health Crisis
    Description: Cecilia Gentili is the Director of Policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). In this wide-ranging interview, she reflects on the relationships and experiences that inform her story of struggle, res...
  3. El Roy Red Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Red, El Roy, Holmes, Zoe
    Date: Mar. 30, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Adoption, Body image, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, Higher education, Immigration, Isolation, LGBTQ+ poetry, Passing (Gender), Sexuality, Substance abuse
    Subject: El Roy Red, Ponderosa Movement and Discovery, University of Pittsburgh
    Description: El Roy Red is a poet who has lived in New York City for three years. Red begins the interview by discussing her self-expression through a unique sense of style and how she found her voice as a writ...
  4. Interview with André Pérez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Pérez, André
    Date: Oct. 20, 2016
    Topics: Abuse, Aggression, AIDS activists, Art, Assigned gender, Civil rights, Discrimination, Family relationships, Feminism, FtMs, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Immigration, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, Machismo, Masculinities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Poverty, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Sexual assault, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Violence, White LGBTQ+ people, Work
    Subject: Cacina Queen, Greta Martela, Nina Chaubal, Sasha Perez, Story Corps, Trans Lifeline, Trans Oral History Project, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vagina Monologues
    Description: André Pérez is a mixed White and Puerto Rican trans person based out of Chicago who goes by they and he. At the time of this oral history, Pérez was working as a documentary filmmaker. They spend a...
  5. 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...
  6. Interview with Ashlee Sapalaran

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sapalaran, Ashlee
    Date: May 16, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Anti-transgender violence, Appearance, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Bathrooms, Catholic schools, Celebrities, Christianity, Church--Unity, Colorism, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Families, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Identity, Immigration, Katoeys, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ immigrants, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Linguistics, Love, Occupations, Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Politicians, Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Psychiatrists, Religion, Same-sex marriage, Self-acceptance, Sex, Skin--Bleaching, Social advocacy, Social privilege, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Surgery, Transgender people, Translations, Visas, Work
    Subject: Barack Obama, Laverne Cox, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ashlee Saparalan is a Filipina female from the Philippines. She talks about her family and growing up in the Philippines, and compares life in the Philippines to her experiences in the United State...
  7. Interview with Geena Rocero

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rocero, Geena
    Date: Nov. 16, 2016
    Topics: Anthropology, Art, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Celebrities, Contraception, Cultures, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Femmes, Filipino American women, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Immigration, Indigenous peoples, Lectures, LGBTI rights, LGBTQ+ visibility, Medical care, MtFs, Olympic games, Pageants, Passing (Gender), Photographic models, Poverty, Privilege (Social psychology), Racism, Roman catholicism, Self-acceptance, Sexual harassment, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Asian Pacific Wellness Center, Babaylan, Bakla, Beutiful as I Want to Be, Caitlyn Jenner, Ferdinand Magellan, Gender Proud, Janet Mock, Jazz Jennings, Jeffrey Caliendo, Lauren Foster, Mahu, Papuan, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Geena Rocero is a Filipino trans woman and supermodel from Makati City in the Philippines. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, her career as a model and founder of the prod...
  8. Naz Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Naz, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 20, 2017
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Childhood, Class struggle, Clothing, Colleges, Communities, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Homosexuality, Identity, Immigration, Islam, Labour, Politics, Refugees, Schools, Sexuality, Sports, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Naz is a gender non-conforming queer artist who works around in between spaces. They were born in Iran into a middle class muslim family, and followed their parents to the United States as a child ...
  9. Phoenix Danger Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Danger, Phoenix
    Date: Apr. 24, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gay-straight alliances, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Immigration, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, Multiculturalism, Politics, Racism, Substance abuse, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: Babeland, Phoenix Danger
    Description: Phoenix Danger was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. In this interview, they recount their early life in suburban New York as the child of Filipino imm...
  10. Raffi Marhaba Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Marhaba, Raffi
    Date: Feb. 26, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Asylum migration, Bisexuality, Change of name, Childhood, Gender diversity, Immigration, Language, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Mental health, Microaggressions, Pronoun, Psychotherapy, Self-mutilation, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Verbal abuse
    Description: Raffi Marhaba, a non-binary Brazilian migrant, discussed seeking political asylum due to violence based on their sexual orientation and the immigration process to the US. They shared about their id...
  11. Sabelo Narasimhan Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Narasimhan, Sabelo
    Date: Feb. 28, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Artists, Bathrooms, Childhood, Clothing, Dating, Environmentalism, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gender identity, Immigration, LGBTI community, Life stories, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Police, Prisons, Schools, Sports, Transgender people, Visibility, Youth centres
    Subject: Sabelo Narasimhan
    Description: In this interview, Sabelo Narasimhan--a South Asian youth activist, organizer, photographer, and immigrant of color--discusses his penchant for collecting and sharing stories. Hear him talk about w...