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  1. 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...
  2. Interview with Dr. Aren Aizura

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Aizura, Aren
    Date: Oct. 13, 2016
    Topics: Art, Biphobia, Celebrities, Childbirth, Coming out, Drag, Educational institutions, Emigration and immigration, Family relationships, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Higher education, History, Hormones, Identity politics, Justice, Language, Mental health, Parenthood, Parents of transgender people, Politics, Pregnancy, Racism, Social movements, Sociology, Transgender people, Transphobia, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Aren Aizura, Leslie Feinberg, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Virginia Prince
    Description: Aren Aizura is a white trans guy from Australia. At the time of this interview, Aizura was an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studie...
  3. 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...
  4. Interview with Harvey Katz

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Katz, Harvey
    Date: Jan. 29, 2016
    Topics: Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Colleges, Coming out, Community life, Education, Educators, Entertainers, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Hormones, Jewish transgender people, LGBTQ+ poetry, Love, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical care, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Representation, Sex, Storytelling, Visibility, White people, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Athens Boys Choir, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Harvey Katz is a white man with a transgender history from Miami. At the time of this interview, Katz was working as a performer and an educator. In this oral history, Katz talks about coming out, ...
  5. Interview with Hayden Mora

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mora, Hayden
    Date: Sep. 26, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Alcoholism, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Educational institutions, Family members, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender role, Gender-affirming care, Health, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Housing, Income, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ people with addictions, Marriage law, Masculinities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Physical health, Pluralism, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Self-esteem, Sexism, Social classes, Social movements, Social privilege, Testosterone, Therapies, Transgender people, Wealth, Whites--Race identity, Work, Working class, Xenophobia
    Subject: Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Hayden Mora is a white trans male from Boston. At the time of this oral history, Mora was living in Washington D.C. and working for Trans United. In this oral history, Mora speaks about addiction a...
  6. Interview with Jessica Polacek

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: 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, 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...
  7. Interview with Laura Jane Grace

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Grace, Laura Jane
    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...
  8. Interview with Rebecca Kling

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Kling, Rebecca
    Date: Jan. 25, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Bullying, Coming out, Dating, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hair--Removal, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ visibility, Medical care, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Schools, Self-acceptance, Sexual orientation, Social movements, Social privilege, Surgery, Theatre, Therapies, Transgender identity, White transgender people
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Creating Change, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Rebecca Kling is a white trans woman from Chicago, Illinois. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and college years, her transition, and her work within Camp Aranu'tiq and th...
  9. Interview with Rehema Mertinez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mertinez, Rehema
    Date: Mar. 28, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Authority, Black people--Race identity, Black transgender people, Bullying, Celebrities, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Creative activities and seat work--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Depression, Discrimination, Emigration and immigration, Ethnic diversity, Ethnic groups, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Latin Americans, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ visibility, Love, Media, Medical care, Mental health, MtFs, Multiracial transgender people, Police, Police brutality, Prisons, Racially mixed people, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sex, Sexuality, Spirituality, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Visibility, Youth
    Subject: Avenues for Homeless Youth, Trans Youth Support Network, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Rehema Mertinez is a mixed Jamaican and Puerto Rican woman from Minnesota and Australia who goes by she and they. She talks about her early life, moving to Australia as a child, housing insecurity,...
  10. Interview with Sayuri Hernandez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hernandez, Sayuri
    Date: Sep. 12, 2016
    Topics: Addictions, Armed Forces, Child abuse, Classism, Dating, Exercise, Family relationships, Feminism, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ visibility, Medical care, Mental health, Race, Racially mixed people, Racism, Slurs, Spirituality, Stores, Retail, Substance abuse, Tucking (Phallus), White people, Women, Work
    Subject: George Michael, Lana Del Ray, Loyola University, Rihanna, RuPaul's Drag Race, Sayuri Hernandez
    Description: Sayuri Hernandez is a Puerto Rican trans woman from Houston, Texas. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and early life, experiences of addiction and recovery, her thoughts o...
  11. Interview with Terry Dickelman

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Dickelman, Terry
    Date: May 27, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Coming out, Family relationships, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Language, Mental health, Middle West, Passing (Gender), Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Religion, Social movements, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender youth, Visibility, White people--Race identity--United States, Work
    Subject: Janus Society, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, RECLAIM!, Terry Dickelman, Transforming Families, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Terry Dickelman is a white transgender male from Des Moines, Iowa. At the time of this interview, Dickelman was living in Minnesota. In this oral history, he recounts early childhood experiences, r...
  12. Interview with Thalia Fontan

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Fontan, Thalia
    Date: Feb. 12, 2016
    Topics: Celebrities, Education, Family relationships, Friendships, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ visibility, Mental health, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Puerto Rican women, Race, Racism, Self-esteem, Social privilege, Trans women, Transgender victims of bullying, Transgender youth, White transgender people, Work
    Subject: Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference (MBLGTACC), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Thalia Fontan is a Puerto Rican and white transwoman from Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Fontan was a student at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Fontan speaks at length...