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  1. Aelita Parizek Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Parizek, Aelita, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 10, 2018
    Topics: Arts, Arts and entertainment occupations, Body image, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Students, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: In this interview with Sebastián Casto Niculescu, Aelita Parizek discusses their journey of discovery both with their transness and in the art world. Parizek explains how their experiences at Parso...
  2. 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...
  3. Donna M. Cartwright Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Cartwright, Donna M., O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Dec. 23, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Arrests, Beauty standards, Colleges, Coming out, Crossdressing, Dating, Drag queens, Ethnic relations, Events, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ movement, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Normalization, Organisations, Secrecy, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Stereotypes, Therapists, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender rights, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Christine Jorgensen, Donna M. Cartwright, Gender Right Advocacy Association of New Jersey (GRAANJ), GenderPAC, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pride at Work, Terence Stamp, The New York Times
    Description: Donna Cartwright discusses her long history in the labor movement, as a socialist militant, in leading roles in trans rights organizing and LGBTQ organizations. She recounts her 30 years spent as a...
  4. 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...
  5. Interview with Dona Ewing

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Ewing, Dona
    Date: Apr. 5, 2016
    Topics: Alcohol, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Medical care, Surgery--Complications, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dona Ewing
    Description: Dona Ewing shares stories about growing up in Crookston, MN and making a home in the Twin Cities. Dona worked for 22 years at the Gay 90’s, a Minneapolis club, as a coat check and shares stories ab...
  6. 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...
  7. Interview with Monet (Kisha) Martin

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Martin, Monet (Kisha)
    Date: May 18, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Cannabis, Cross-cultural relationships, Drag queens, Families, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Rape, Sexual relationships, Sports, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Surgery, Transgender people, Violence
    Description: Monet (Kisha) Martin identifies as a trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She played sports growing up such as basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. Martin was kicked out of high school ...
  8. Juliana Moraes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Moraes, Juliana, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 18, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Dance, Discrimination, Education, Femininities, Hormones, Immigrants, Latinos, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Machismo, Mental health, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Juliana Moraes tells interviewer Sebastián Castro Niculescu about her family immigrating to New Jersey from Brazil, and how growing up as a dark-skinned gender non-confirming child has had lasting ...
  9. Kiara St. James Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara
    Date: Mar. 6, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG)
    Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr...
  10. Kim Watson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Watson, Kim
    Date: Jun. 18, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Adoptive parents, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Gender, Health care, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychiatry, Social service organisations, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC), AIDS WATCH, Bright Point, Bronx Lebanon, Carmen Vasquez, Community Kinship Life (CK Life), Empire [State] Pride Agenda, Escuelitas, HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG), Marti Adult Day Program, Odyssey House, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stonewall, The Modern-Day Woman, The Monster, Two Potatoes
    Description: Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of home...
  11. Melissa Sklarz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sklarz, Melissa, Tennenbaum, Ric
    Date: Jul. 5, 2017
    Topics: Bathrooms, Civil rights, Crossdressing, Elections, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Homelessness, Hormones, Isolation, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Lobbying, MtFs, Night life, Politics, Public facilities, Public sex, Representation, Schools, Stigmatisation, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, GenderPAC, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Melissa Sklarz, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Riki Anne Wilchins, Stonewall Democrats
    Description: Melissa Sklarz was the first transgender elected official in New York, having been a judicial delegate since the 1990s. She has served on many trans rights legislative committees, including the Sto...
  12. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Major, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Dec. 16, 2017
    Topics: Care, Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Law, Legal aid, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Stigmatisation, Transgender people, Transgender prostitution, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Angels for Care, Christine Jorgensen, Griffin Gracy Historical Retreat and Resource Center, Harry Benjamin, Major Griffin-Gracy, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, Tenderloin AIDs Resource Project, Trans Gender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
    Description: In this interview, Miss Major talks about the culture of transwomen sex workers in New York City and Chicago during the 1960's through 1980's as well as her care-work and advocacy during the rise o...
  13. Paris Milane Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Milane, Paris
    Date: Jun. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Change of name, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Crimes, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Housing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Stealth (Transgender), Substance abuse, Support groups, Transgender community, Unemployment, Violence
    Subject: Housing Works, Paris Milane
    Description: Paris shares her experience of growing up in Atlanta and starting to “live her truth” at a young age. She recalls finding reassurance in a community of other Black trans women for the first time an...
  14. Susan Stryker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Oct. 22, 2019
    Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, BDSM, Childhood, Crossdressing, Ethnic groups, Historians, Homophobia, Hormones, Leather community, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Military, Mormonism, Peace movement, Social classes, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transgender studies
    Subject: Blue Jeans Day, Christine Jorgensen, Dear Abby, Gay Activist Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, Gay Pieere, I Want What I Want, Janice Raymond, Leslie Feinberg, Patrick Califia-Rice, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the She-Male, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Victor Silverman
    Description: Susan Stryker is an esteemed author and professor of gender and women’s studies. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Oklahoma, while also spending time in Germany and Hawaii as part of h...
  15. 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...