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  1. Amaree Jael Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Jael, Amaree, Maya, Elliott
    Date: Aug. 15, 2016
    Topics: Bigender people, Black people, Bullying, Homophobia, Isolation, Parents of transgender people, Poverty, Race identity, Racism, Sexuality, Slavery, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Verbal abuse, Visibility
    Subject: Amaree Jael
    Description: Amaree Jael recounts their life growing up in New York City as a transmasculine person of color. Beginning on 125th Street between 5th and Lennox, Amaree describes their early life in a changing ne...
  2. Interview with Charlene Bradshaw

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Bradshaw, Charlene
    Date: Jan. 12, 2016
    Topics: Black people, Bullying, Childhood, Children, Coming out, Education, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Homophobia, Lesbians, Masculinities, Military, Sexism, Sexuality, Spirituality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, Volunteering, Writers
    Subject: Charlene Bradshaw, Don't Ask, Don't Tell
    Description: Charlene Bradshaw is a Black lesbian born and raised in Hawaii. In this oral history, Bradshaw speaks about his experiences being a Black transgender person in Minneapolis, alongside serving in the...
  3. Interview with Destinee Salinas

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Salinas, Destinee
    Date: Sep. 28, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Androgyny, Anti-transgender violence, Anxiety, Augmentation mammaplasty, Bathrooms, Bullying, Catholic schools, Clothing, Cosmetics, Discrimination, Drag, Families, Gender identity, Gender role, Health insurance, Hispanic Americans, Hormones, Language, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Media, Mental health, Mexican Americans, Police, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Popular culture, Pronoun, Racially mixed people, Racism, Social media, Transgender people
    Subject: Annual Minneapolis Transgender Equity Summer
    Description: Destinee Salinas is a Hispanic female from Indiana. She talks about her experiences growing up, doing drag, and some of the obstacles she has faced as a trans woman. She also discusses relationship...
  4. Interview with EJ Olson

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Olson, EJ
    Date: Dec. 16, 2016
    Topics: AIDS organizations, Allies, Appearance, Art, Artists, Assigned gender, Bullying, Colleges, Coming out, Communities, Counseling, Dating, Families, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Health care, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Racism, Religion, Religions, Self-acceptance, Sexual orientation, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Theatre, Therapies, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Whites--Race identity, Women's colleges, Work
    Subject: Callen Lorde, Chatham College, Family Tree Clinic, Garden State Equality, LGBT Task Force, LGBTQ Center, Rainbow Health Initiative, Riot Girl Feminism, Trans Hormone Care Program, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: EJ Olson is a white gender-queer person from Empire, Michigan. At the time of this interview, Olson was working as the Clinical Operations Director at Family Tree Clinic. In this oral history they ...
  5. Interview with Eli Clare

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Clare, Eli
    Date: Mar. 1, 2016
    Topics: Bullying, Cerebral palsy, Clinical medicine, Diagnosis, Disability studies, Employment, Gay community, Gender minorities, Gender realignment surgery, Lesbian community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Passing (Gender), People with disabilities, Public buildings--Restrooms, Rural areas, Small cities, Stonewall riots, Surgery, Working class, Writers
    Subject: Americans with Disabilities Act, Compton's Cafeteria Riots, Eli Clare, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Eli Clare is a genderqueer disability advocate, writer and poet. In this oral history, Clare discusses how language gets re-claimed, taken up, or not; tensions in lesbian community around trans mas...
  6. Interview with Elliot Winter

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Winter, Elliot
    Date: Jun. 8, 2016
    Topics: Adopted children, Anti-transgender violence, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Clothing, Community life, Drug abuse, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hormone therapy, Korean Americans, LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ people with addictions, Masculinities, Medical care, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Online dating, Parents, White, Racism, Role behavior, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Social media, Suicide, Therapies, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Elliot Winter is a Korean male who grew up in Georgia but also spent time in Ohio, California, and New Jersey. In this interview, Winter talks at length about participating in online trans communit...
  7. Interview with Faye Seidler

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Seidler, Faye
    Date: Oct. 15, 2016
    Topics: AIDS education, Art, Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Community life, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hair--Removal, Hormones, Hospitals, Insurance, Isolation, Legal name, Love, Masculinities, Mentoring, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Polyamory, Puberty, Sex, Sexuality, Suicidal behavior, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Whites--Race identity, Working class, Writers
    Subject: Grey Ace Trans Woman, The Great Plains Affirming Campus Conference, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Faye Seidler is a white trans woman based out of North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Seidler was a writer, an educator, and a cook. In this oral history she speaks at length about her comi...
  8. 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...
  9. Interview with Gradylee Shapiro

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Shapiro, Gradylee
    Date: Jan. 17, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bisexuality, Bullying, Butches, Classism, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Dating, Death and dying, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Mental disorders, Mental health, Ovariectomy, Passing (Gender), Poor, Racism, Schools, Social movements, Social privilege, Soft butches, Swindlers and swindling, Testosterone, Transitioning (Gender), Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: District 202, Ethan Laubach, Gender Blur, GLBT Youth Organization, Prism, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white m...
  10. Interview with Haylee Veazey

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Veazey, Haylee
    Date: Dec. 1, 2016
    Topics: Bisexual identity, Bullying, Christianity, Clinics, Coming out, Conservatives, Education, Electrolysis, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Gay-straight alliances, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health care, Health insurance, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ relationships, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical policy, MtFs, Overweight people, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Religion, Religions, Sexism, Southwest, New, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Stress, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Whites--Race identity, Women, Work
    Subject: Affordable Care Act, Hennepin County Medical Center, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Haylee Veazey is a white trans woman from Farmington New Mexico. She discusses growing up in a small conservative and religious town, and her struggles with herself and her family. She discusses he...
  11. Interview with Isabelle Wedin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wedin, Isabelle
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Androgyny, Anxiety, Assigned gender, Biotechnology, Bisexuals, Bullying, Children, Coming out, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Employment discrimination, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Indigenous peoples, Intersex, Law, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Plays, Police, Racially mixed people, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Social justice, Spironolactone, Support groups, Swimwear, Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-spirit people, Volunteering
    Subject: Alliance Defending Freedom, Allina Health Systems, Avery Edison, Catherine Graffam, Free CeCe, Google Hangouts, Informational Technology, Julia Serano, June Taylor, MetaFilter, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed i...
  12. 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...
  13. Interview with Jess Dugan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Dugan, Jess
    Date: Jan. 22, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Appearance, Art, Arts, Assigned gender, Bathrooms, Bullying, Coming out, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Communities, Creative activities and seat work, Dating, Divorce, Education, Families, Family relationships, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Photography, Privilege (Social psychology), Puberty, Race, Self-acceptance, Sex, Social movements, Southern States, White people--Race identity--United States
    Subject: Dykes to Watch Out For, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Transcending Boundaries, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, True Spirit
    Description: Jess Dugan is a white genderqueer person raised in Arkansas. At the time of this interview, Dugan was working as an artist living in St. Louis, Missouri. In this oral history she speaks at length a...
  14. Interview with Julienne Brown (Mizz June)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Brown, Julienne (Mizz June)
    Date: May 6, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Allies, Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Bullying, Celebrities, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Community life, Creative ability, Creative activities and seat work, Dating, Education, Femininities, Film, Friendship, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labelling, LGBTI community, Love, Migration, Passing (Gender), Passing (Identity), Race, Religion, Representation, Role behavior, Schools, Sex, Sexism, Sexual identity, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transphobia, Visibility
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP), FIERCE, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Julienne Brown, also known as “Mizz June”, is a Black trans woman raised in New York. At the time of this oral history, Brown was working as a musician and an actor. In this oral history she speaks...
  15. Interview with Lou Weaver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Weaver, Lou
    Date: Dec. 9, 2016
    Topics: Adoption, Bullying, Change of name, Coming out, Drag, Family members, Family relationships, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Human rights, Hysterectomy, Identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Patriarchy, Police, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Pregnancy, Race, Same-sex marriage, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Social privilege, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia, White LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, CeCe McDonald, Chaz Bono, Donald Trump, Ellen Degeneres, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, RuPaul, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Lou Weaver is a white trans man. At the time of the interview Weaver was working for Equality Texas. He discusses his childhood, his experience doing drag, and finding a community in Houston. He ex...