Interview with Rickke Mananzala

An interview with Rickke Mananzala, a trans activist and community organizer. At the time of this interview, he was the Vice President for Strategy & Programs with Borealis Philanthropy, working with the Fund for Trans Generations. Prior to his work with Borealis, Mananzala was executive director of FIERCE, an organization building the leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of color in New York City. In this oral history interview, Mananzala discusses his background and initial forays into activism, his work with trans youth of color in New York City with FIERCE in the early to mid 2000s, the distinction between grassroots and mainstream queer and trans movements, and the lessons gleamed from FIERCE's structure, philosophy, and operations. Specifically, he discusses the differing priorities of grassroots, people of color-led movements for justice and more mainstream, white-led movements for visibility, rights, and mainstream recognition, the relationship between philanthropy and grassroots movements, and the urgency of addressing violence against Black and Brown trans women.

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Identifier: pc289j39t
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Mananzala, Rickke
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 19, 2019
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Borealis Philanthropy
FIERCE
Fund for Trans Generations
Places: New York
Washington > King County > City of Seattle > Seattle
Topic(s): BIPOC
LGBTQ+ activism
LGBTQ+ people of color
LGBTQ+ youth
Trans women
Transgender people
Transgender youth
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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