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Description:: Susan Kimberly is a white transwoman from St. Paul, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and early life, her time in the Peace Corps, her transition, her experiences with the University of Minnesota’s Program in Human Sexuality, her entry into St. Paul politics culminating in her time as Deputy Mayor under Norm ...
Creator:: Kimberly, Susan (interviewee)
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (interviewer)
Created:: 2016-03-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-04-14

Description:: Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed in private beginning at the age of 12 or 13 since she wasn’t comfortable sharing it. Since she was young, she recognized that she wanted to be a girl, ...
Creator:: Wedin, Isabelle
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-10-31
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

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 masculinity; passing; and the contradictions he felt medically transitioning and while simultaneously resisting pathologizing his body as needing a "cure...
Creator:: Clare, Eli
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-03-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Dr. Eli Coleman is a professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality, one of the first programs in the country of its kind, at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as well as the first endowed chair in sexual health at the University of Minnesota. Coleman describes his experience coming to work at the Program in Human Sexuality a...
Creator:: Coleman, Eli Dr.
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-02-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Laverne Cox is the executive producer of the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. She plays Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African American transgender woman. Cox is a renowned speaker whose insights are featured on CNN, MSNBC, HLN, VH1, and Fox News Latino. Cox is the first trans woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstrea...
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-10-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Cal Evoniuk is a white male from North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Evoniuk was a student at North Dakota State University. In this oral history, Evoniuk briefly shares his experience of growing up in a rural area, how his identity has changed through time, and his experience with just recently coming out as trans.
Creator:: Evoniuk, Calum
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-10-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Venus de Mars is a white trans woman from Duluth, Minnesota. This is the second of two interviews the Tretter Collection holds between Jenkins and de Mars. At the time of this interview de Mars was the founder and leader of the band All The Pretty Horses. In this oral history she speaks at length about a documentary called Venus of Mars, fetish ...
Creator:: DeMars, Venus
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-09-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Neno Miller is a white gender queer, non-binary, trans masculine, gender fuck from Medford, Wisconsin. They talk about growing up, their definition of queer, and their experience dealing with public bathrooms. As a student at the University of Minnesota at the time of this interview, they have had both positive and negative experiences at the un...
Creator:: Miller, Neno
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-11-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Nichole Moravec is a white nonbinary person from Faribault, Minnesota. They talk about growing up and their family relationships. At the time of the interview, they were one of the co-presidents of Full Spectrum Winona State’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance as well as on the council of KEAP, and they describe how attending the queer college confe...
Creator:: Moravec, Nichole
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-03-30
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Andrea Jenkins is a Black trans-feminine person raised in Chicago. At the time of this interview, she was the Oral Historian for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. This is the second of two interviews with Jenkins held in Phase 1. In this oral history, Andrea Jenkins and Dominique Tobbell speak at length about the operations, opportun...
Creator:: Jenkins, Andrea
Contributor:: Tobell, Dominique (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-07-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24