Interview with Bran Fenner

An interview with Bran Fenner, a Black transmasculine activist, consultant, educator, and ER and hospice nurse based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, he was Director of People and Organizational Culture at the Transgender Law Center. Prior to his work at TLC, Fenner was the founder of the Education for Liberation Project, a co-director of FIERCE!, and was involved for over two decades with The Audre Lorde Project (ALP.) In this oral history interview, Fenner discusses his upbringing in New York City in the 1990s and entry into queer and trans worlds at Brooklyn Technical High School and the Christopher Street piers, his work with the Education for Liberation Project educating trans organizations, his time as a co-director of FIERCE! and the organization's work with LGBTQ youth of color in New York, his work with ALP, and his work to spearhead changes at TLC. Additionally, he discusses FIERCE!'s political grounding in youth of color organizing and street outreach as opposed to LGBT identity, his thoughts on burnout, nonprofit structures and practices, nursing and its relationship to movement work and direct action, parenting, transformative justice, and his visions for the future.

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Identifier: wd375w63h
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Fenner, Bran
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Brenner-Adam, Katherine
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 12, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Education for Liberation Project
FIERCE
The Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
Transgender Law Center (TLC)
Places: New York
New York > Kings County > Brooklyn
Topic(s): BIPOC
Black LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ activism
LGBTQ+ people of color
LGBTQ+ youth
Nurses
Transmasculine people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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