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  1. Interview with Billy Navarro Jr.

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Navarro, Billy Jr.
    Date: Feb. 19, 2016
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, FtMs, Gender diversity, Genderfluid identity, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Jews, Racism, Roman catholicism, Transgender people, Transphobia, Volunteering
    Subject: Beyond the Binary, Black Lives Matter (BLM), CeCe McDonald, Clothing Shelf, District 202, Free CeCe, Gender Gear Program, Holly Wood, La Clinica, Laverne Cox, Marsha P. Johnson, Michelle Alexander, Minnesota Aids Project, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Out for Equity, Rainbow Health Initiative, Shot Clinic, Sylvia Rivera, Transgender Youth Support Network
    Description: Billy Navarro Jr. is a mixed Puerto Rican and white gender-queer trans-man from Mound, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Navarro was a youth worker and teacher at the Minnesota Transgender ...
  2. Interview with Catalina Velasquez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Velasquez, Catalina
    Date: Dec. 9, 2016
    Topics: Augmentation mammaplasty, Change of name, Citizenship, Colombian Americans, Dating, Development, Employment, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Illegal aliens, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, MtFs, Privilege (Social psychology), Racism, Role behavior, Self-acceptance, Transgender people, Xenophobia
    Subject: Audre Lorde, Casa Ruby, Laverne Cox
    Description: Catalina Velasquez identifies as a straight transgender woman attracted to cis men and goes by Queen Goddess Sister. She is Colombian, was born in Cali, Colombia, and has a sister. She came to the ...
  3. 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 ...
  4. Interview with Erica Fields

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Fields, Erica
    Date: Sep. 8, 2015
    Topics: Adoption, African Americans, Art, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Bullying, Celebrities, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Educational institutions, Family members, Family relationships, Feminists, Friendship, Gender bending, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Hormone therapy, Income, Lesbians, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Middle West, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Race identity, Race relations, Racism, Religion, Roman catholicism, Sex, Sexuality, Socio-economic status, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Support groups, Theatre, Therapies, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Wealth, Work
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine McGinn, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Ellen Krug, Gender Justice, Gender Outlaws, Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change, GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Gonzaga University, Hedda Gabler, Hidden Agenda, Hidden Agender, Hogan's Heroes, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Janet Mock, Jenny Boylan, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Leigh Smythe, Mara Keisling, Marcus Waterbury, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, NASA, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Northwest Bible College, Of Mice and Men, Old Bedlam Theatre, Star Trek, The Miser, The Taming of the Shrew, Trans, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Women's Employment and Security Act (WESA)
    Description: Erica Fields is a woman of transgender history from Edina, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Fields was working in Minnesota as a business woman selling rye. In this oral history Fields spe...
  5. Interview with Lourdes Ashley Hunter

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
    Date: Mar. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Activists, Assigned gender, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Bullying, Christianity, Community life, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Genocide, Hair--Removal, Healing, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Liberation movements, Mentoring, Middle West, Race, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sex work, Social movements, Social work with youth, Transgender people, Violence
    Subject: Barack Obama, Creating Change, Ellie Ford, Islan Nettles, Laverne Cox, Queers for Economic Justice, Slyvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Justice, Trans Youth Group, TransWomen of Color Collective, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Women's March
    Description: Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black tr...
  6. Interview with Quinton Neal

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Neal, Quinton
    Date: Feb. 23, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Androgyny (Psychology), Appearance, Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people--Race identity, Discrimination, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTI community, Medical interventions, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Native American . . ., Native American LGBTQ+ people, Online dating, Police, Prisons, Privilege (Social psychology), Problem-oriented policing, Psychic trauma, Race, Racially mixed people, Racism, Rape, Religion, Religions, Religious institutions, Role behavior, Rural areas, Schools, Self-care, Health, Sexual freedom, Sexual orientation, Sexual violence, Sexuality, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Support groups, Transgender community
    Subject: Black Liberation Projects, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Caitlyn Jenner, Delta Phi Upsilon, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Quinton Neal is a Black and Native American gender-fluid person from Peoria and Philadelphia who goes by she and he. At the time of this interview, Neal was a student in graduate school. In this or...
  7. Interview with Stef Wilenchek

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wilenchek, Stef
    Date: Sep. 11, 2015
    Topics: Activism, Bisexuality, Classism, Coming out, Depression, Disabilities, Discrimination, Eating disorders, Education, Family members, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Genderqueer people, Harassment, Health insurance, Heteronormativity, Higher education, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersex, Justice, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Mental health, Parenthood, Police brutality, Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Puberty, Race, Racism, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Social movements, Southern States, Transgender community, Transphobia, Violence, White LGBTQ+ people, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Laverne Cox, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Stef Wilenchek is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Georgia and Ohio. At the time of this oral history, Wilenchek was living in Minneapolis and working at the University of Minnesota. In th...
  8. Interview with Toni-Michelle Williams

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Willliams, Toni-Michelle
    Date: Jun. 7, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, AIDS (Disease), Androgyny, Arrests, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Coming out, Courts, Drag, Drag performance, Drag queens, Family relationships, Femininities, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Heterosexuals, HIV infections, Hormone therapy, Law enforcement, Legal process, Love, Prisons, Race, Racism, Sex, Social movements, Southern States, Transgender people
    Subject: Access Aids Health Care, Barack Obama, Emerging Leaders Initiative with the National Black Justice Coalition, Jasmine Dyree, Jasmine Gray, Jim Crowe, Kimberly Waldon, Laverne Cox, Leading the Education of Gay and Straight Individuals (LEGSI), Morgan Harrison, National Organization for Women (NOW), Rob Burr, RuPaul, Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women, Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, T Girls Empowerment, Tijuana Michelle Ponder, Toni Braxton, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Toni-Michelle Williams is a Black woman of trans experience who has spent time in Georgia and Norfolk, Virginia. In this interview, Williams touches upon topics such as drag, family relationships, ...
  9. Interview with Valerie Spencer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Valerie
    Date: Oct. 5, 2017
    Topics: African American transgender people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Butches, Christianity, Clothing, Depression, Drag queens, Employment discrimination, Exorcism, Families, Families, Black, Femininities, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Identity politics, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labeling, Language, Marriage, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychic trauma, Racism, Role behavior, Role models, Schools, Self-care, Health, Social advocacy, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
    Description: Valerie Spencer is a Black woman (trans) from LA. At the time of the interview, she was working on a Masters in Social Work at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. In the interview, she discusses her di...
  10. Interview with Vanessa Sheridan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sheridan, Vanessa
    Date: Jul. 12, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Families, Fundamentalism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Performing arts, Racism, Religions, Socioeconomic characteristics, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chaz Bono, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Crossing Over, HB2, Jerry Springer Show, Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Maury Povich, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Pulse Night Club, RuPaul, The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace, Virginia Prince, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
    Description: Vanessa Sheridan is a white transgender woman raised in the South. At the time of this interview, Sheridan was the Director of Transgender Relations and Community Engagement at Center on Halsted (C...
  11. Nala Simone Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Simone, Nala, Calou, Yana
    Date: May 9, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Childhood, Clergy, Colleges, Coming out, Drag balls, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormones, Masculinities, Oppression, Racism, Religions, Representation, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Workshops
    Subject: Aaryn Lang, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Lourdes Ashley Hunter, Miss Major, Nala Simone
    Description: Nala Simone is an activist who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Nala begins with her childhood in Bushwick, her time as a fashion design student at the Fashion Institute of Design, and her process ...