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  1. Interview with Damion Mendez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mendez, Damion
    Date: Jun. 17, 2017
    Topics: Adoption, Assigned gender, Bullying, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gay men, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hysterectomy, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ death and dying, Masculinities, Medicalisation, Men, Passing (Gender), Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Racism, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Barack Obama, Family Tree Clinic, Human Sexuality Program, Janet Byrstrom, Jendeen Forberg, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Mondo Queer Beach Party, Pamela Anderson, Prince, Pulse Night Club, Roxanne Anderson
    Description: Damion Mendez is a Latino trans masculine identified person from St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Mendez was living in Minnesota. In this oral history Mendez speaks about transra...
  2. Interview with Danika Ragnhild

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ragnhild, Danika
    Date: Feb. 17, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Autistic people, Biology, Bullying, Change of name, Dating, Disabilities, Femininity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-nonconforming people, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ porn films, Marriage, MtFs, Non-monogamous relationships, People with disabilities, Politics, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Poverty, Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Rape, Rural areas, Sex industry, Sex workers, Sexual abuse, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Transgender people, Violence, Women, Black
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Stanley Kubrick, The Exchange, Transgender Youth Support Network
    Description: Danika Ragnhild is a white trans woman from Crookston, MN. At the time of this interview, Ragnhild was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ragnhild speaks about her childhood, disability, ...
  3. Interview with Denise Sudbeck

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sudbeck, Denise
    Date: Jan. 15, 2016
    Topics: Addictions, Alcoholism, Baptist church, Bisexuality, Coming out, Dissertations, Doctor of philosophy degree, Estrogen, Evangelicalism, Gender identity, Hormones, Law enforcement, Lesbian identity, Liberation theology, Marriage, MtFs, Pronoun, Psychology, Religions, Sexuality, Stereotypes, Substance abuse, Theological seminaries, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: State University of New York, Transgender Day of Remembrance, United Theological New Brighton
    Description: Denise Sudbeck is a white trans woman from Maine. At the time of this interview, she was in school writing a dissertation on queer theology. In life she also was a member of the United States Navy;...
  4. 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...
  5. Interview with Diana Green

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Green, Diana
    Date: Aug. 8, 2015
    Topics: Bisexual identity, Divorce, Gender affirming surgery, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ communities, Trans women, Transsexual people, Unemployment, Working class
    Subject: Crompton Cafeteria, OutFront MN, Tranny Towers, TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to suicide.
  6. Interview with Dominic Giovon Chilko

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Chilko, Dominic Giovon
    Date: Jun. 2, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Adoption, Art, Assigned gender, Black LGBTQ+ people, Coming out, Corrective rape, Disabilities, Drag, Drag kings, Ethnic groups, FtMs, Gay pride, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Heterosexuals, Hormones, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Masculinities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Performing arts, Physical fitness, Physicians, Psychotherapy, Racism, Sex, Sexuality, Social movements, Social privilege, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Boys Don't Cry, Buck Angel, Everest Institute, Lil One, Man Made, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Dominic Giovon Chilko is a bi-racial Afro-Latinx trans man from Eagan, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, he discusses his childhood, relationships, and experiences of transition, his thoug...
  7. Interview with Dona Ewing

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ewing, Dona
    Date: Apr. 5, 2016
    Topics: AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Alcohol, Bars (Drinking establishments), Community life, Drag performance, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Income, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Medical care, Middle West, Race, Racism, Sex work, Sexual orientation, Surgery--Complications, Transitioning (Gender), Wealth, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Dona Ewing, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the first of two interviews between Jenkins and Ewing held in the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. At the time of...
  8. Interview with Donna Ewing part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ewing, Dona
    Date: May 1, 2017
    Topics: AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Anti-racism, Assigned gender, Bars (Drinking establishments), Biology, Cannabis, Celebrities, Clothing, Community life, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Drag performance, Drag queens, Drug traffic, Electrolysis, Entertainers, Ethnicity, Family relationships, Friendship, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, HIV/AIDS, Immigrants, Income, Intersex people, Investments, Middle West, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Sex work, Sexual practices, Strippers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, Wealth, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Copper Squirrel, Donald Hastings, G.I. Act, Laverne Cox, RuPaul, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the second of two interviews between Jenkins and Ewing held in the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. At the time o...
  9. 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...
  10. Interview with Dr. Katie Spencer

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Katie
    Date: Feb. 29, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Activists, Assigned gender, Coming out, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Education, Feminism, Femmes, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Hormone therapy, LGBTI community, Medical care, Medicalisation, Middle West, Misogyny, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychology, Psychotherapy, Race, Racism, Sexism, Social movements, Transgender people, Transphobia, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Deb Thorp, Eli Colman, Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, Keith Ellison, OutFront Minnesota, Park Nicollet, Riki Wilchins, Roxanne Anderson, Transgender Health Action Coalition, Transsexual Menace, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Xavier Schmidt
    Description: Katie Spencer is a white cisgender woman who grew up in Farmington, Missouri. At the time of this oral history, Spencer was living in Minnesota and working at the University of Minnesota's Program ...
  11. Interview with Dr. Rhys Preston

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Preston, Rhys
    Date: Oct. 28, 2021
    Topics: Chiropractors, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ recovery groups, LGBTQ+ youth, Trans men, White transgender people
    Subject: Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Queerspace Collective
    Description: An interview with Dr. Rhys Preston, a white trans man, chiropractor, and trans health activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, he was practicing at his chiropractic ...
  12. 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 ...
  13. 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...
  14. Interview with Ellie Krug

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Krug, Ellie
    Date: Dec. 15, 2015
    Topics: Bisexuality, Counseling, Crossdressing, Education, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Insurance, Lawyers, LGBTQ+ relationships, Sexuality, Social advocacy, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Call for Justice, Christine Jorgensen, David Ahlvers, Fairview Health, Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change, Lavender magazine, Martin Luther King Jr., Minnesota Lavender Bar Association, MyTalk 107, Target Corporation
    Description: Ellie Krug was born during the 1950s in Newark, New Jersey where her parents both lived in the tenements. She identifies herself as a transgender woman assigned male at birth. At 11, Krug’s father ...
  15. Interview with Ellie Krug

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Krug, Ellie
    Date: Dec. 15, 2015
    Topics: Celebrities, Education, Family relationships, Gender affirming surgery, Gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ families, LGBTQ+ people with addictions, LGBTQ+ visibility, Love, Middle West, Sex, Substance abuse, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), White transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Call for Justice, Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ellie Krug is a white trans woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, family, and relationships, her memoirs and experiences of transition, her tho...