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Contributing Organization
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. (76)
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth (40)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives. (1)
Collection
Format
Created
Subject
- Education (117)
- Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Phase 1 (75)
- Family Relationships (52)
- Gender Affirming Care (48)
- Midwest (United States) (46)
- White (44)
- Mental Health (43)
- Privilege (41)
- Race (41)
- Coronavirus (40)
- Covid 19 (40)
- Coming Out (36)
- Friendship and Community (36)
- Health and Healthcare (36)
- Work (34)
Creator
Contributor
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer) (75)
- Moxley, Brandi (6)
- O'Brien, Christopher (5)
- Scholtz, Mike (5)
- Spehar, Elizabeth (5)
- Villiard, Moira (5)
- Nicklawske, Mark (4)
- Thomas, Blake (4)
- Jacobson, Katie (3)
- Wright, Brooke (2)
- Kohen, Harriet (Interviewer) (1)
- Lundgren, Paul (1)
- Tobell, Dominique (Interviewer) (1)
Language
- Description:
- Zeam Porter is a Black and Blackfoot demiboy from Minnesota who goes by they/he/Z. At the time of this oral history, Porter was a student at Macalester College living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Z talks about the organizing work they did with OutFront, mental health, basketball, poetry, family relationships and family support. He also to...
- Creator:
- Porter, Zeam
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-12-29
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- 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 difficult relationship with her father growing up, and how supportive her mother has always been. She discusses what it was like in the 1980s and 1990s ...
- Creator:
- Spencer, Valerie
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-10-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Ty Yule is a white trans man. In life, Yule has spent time in the Midwest (in Iowa and Minnesota) and in California (in Apple Valley and San Francisco). In this interview, Yule touches upon topics such as passing and adversity, coalition building, gay marriage, and assimilation. He also shares his experiences with queer organizing and activism i...
- Creator:
- Yule, Ty
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-08-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Tiq Milan is a Black trans man who grew up in Buffalo, New York. At the time of this interview, Milan was working as a writer based out of New York. In this oral history he talks about growing up in Buffalo during the 1980s, Black families and support networks, and (in his own words) organic masculinity. Milan also touches upon his experiences p...
- Creator:
- Milan, Tiq
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-11-02
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Tiffani Skroch shares her experiences as a college student living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls sitting in class when her Apple Watch buzzed with a news update about Coronavirus numbers rising, and remembers this moment to be the one when she took more seriously what was happening. She lists some of the mainstream news so...
- Creator:
- Skroch, Tiffani
- Contributor:
- Nicklawske, Mark
- Created:
- 2020-09-25
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-02
- Description:
- Thomas O’Rourke shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about his weekend getaway at a cabin with his wife and friends just before the lockdown happened, describing it as a “calm before the storm.” Tom is the executive director of the Hartley Nature Center in Duluth, Minnesota, which provides many prog...
- Creator:
- O'Rourke, Thomas
- Contributor:
- Thomas, Blake
- Created:
- 2020-10-23
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-23
- 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 about her family relationships, mental health, bullying, street harassment, self worth, and racism. She also touches upon workplace discrimination, e...
- Creator:
- Fontan, Thalia
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-02-12
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Tera Amesbury shares stories about her life as a parent to four children during the time of COVID-19 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. She describes her concerns about her son’s health care needs continuing to be met in a time of medication shortages and pressure on hospitals due to COVID-19. Her son has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which is a form of epil...
- Creator:
- Amesbury, Tera
- Contributor:
- Wright, Brooke
- Created:
- 2020-08-13
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-10-30
- Description:
- Taylor Foster is a white transman who grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Foster was working as a 911 dispatcher for the City of Minneapolis. In this oral history, Foster talks about his college experiences, his work as a 911 dispatcher, coming out at work, his understandings of sexuality and dating, and trans poli...
- Creator:
- Foster, Taylor
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-10-07
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Taya Mitchell is a Black trans woman from California. At the time of this interview, Mitchell was working as a performance artist and community organizer in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Mitchell speaks about being homeschooled, bullying, her childhood, housing discrimination, coming out, encounters with healthcare, and socially transitioni...
- Creator:
- Mitchell, Taya
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-04-06
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Tate Haglund-Pagel shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an educator who is an instructional technology integration coach, he talks briefly about his work in the school system on the day students and teachers were sent home last spring. He says working from home is a mixed blessing; there have been some additional str...
- Creator:
- Haglund-Pagel, Tate
- Contributor:
- Jacobson, Katie
- Created:
- 2020-10-25
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-23
- Description:
- Suenary Philavanh shares stories of her life as a college student in Duluth during the time of the COVID-19 quarantine and shut-downs. She shares how she first heard about the virus before her spring break from college, and how she changed her trip from the original plan to go to Portland, Washington because cases were rising there. She describe...
- Creator:
- Philavanh, Suenary
- Contributor:
- Nicklawske, Mark
- Created:
- 2020-08-27
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-02
- Description:
- Steinarr Harriday is a biracial trans male from Lakeville, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Harriday was living in Minnesota. In this oral history he discusses playing on the boy's football team in school, the passing of his father, learning how to shave, and coming out to his family. Harriday also discusses the difficulties of losin...
- Creator:
- Harriday, Steinarr
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-04-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- 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 this oral history Wilenchek speaks at length about their childhood, growing up in the deep South, race and racism, family relationships, coming out, and...
- Creator:
- Wilenchek, Stef
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-09-11
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Spencer Fugate is a mixed white and Cherokee trans woman who grew up in Tennessee and uses she and they. In this interview, Fugate speaks at length about growing up in Tennessee, religion and spirituality, language and identity, coming out in college, polyamory, and being outed. They also touch upon harassment, encounters with healthcare and fin...
- Creator:
- Fugate, Spencer
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-09-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Shannon Walz shares her experiences living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She remembers the precautionary measures implemented while working at an environmental learning camp in the state of Washington over ten years ago during the H1N1 flu outbreak. Based on that experience she recounts her reaction to COVID-19 in the early days of t...
- Creator:
- Walz, Shannon
- Contributor:
- O'Brien, Christopher
- Created:
- 2020-09-28
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-02
- Description:
- Selena Meza is a Mexican-American trans femme from Nekoosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing in rural Wisconsin, her college experience and career, and her thoughts on feminist and trans politics. Specifically, Meza tells of her interest in the arts and work as an illustrator at a design firm, her experienc...
- Creator:
- Meza, Selena
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-11-19
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Sarah Curtiss shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins the interview by introducing herself in Ojibwe. Sarah is the co-executive director of the non-profit Men As Peacemakers and describes what the organization is, the many ways they serve the community, and how COVID-19 has impacted much of what they do...
- Creator:
- Curtiss, Sarah
- Contributor:
- O'Brien, Christopher
- Created:
- 2020-08-25
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-12-23
- Description:
- Sarah Brokke discusses her work and experiences as a visual artist and art professor at St. Scholastica in Duluth, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. She shares her experience with traveling in Bali just as the pandemic was beginning, and returning to a home that seemed changed. She discusses how teaching changed so much when it ...
- Creator:
- Brokke, Sarah
- Contributor:
- Scholtz, Mike
- Created:
- 2020-07-30
- Contributed By:
- Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Last Updated:
- 2020-10-02
- Description:
- Sandy James is a Black trans man raised in England. At the time of this interview, James was working as a researcher, a student and a lawyer based out of Maryland. In this oral history, James speaks at length about immigrating to the United States, racism and anti-blackness in the UK versus the US, helping produce the transgender survey for the ...
- Creator:
- James, Sandy
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-09-29
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
