In this video Joel Vikre, one of the owners of Vikre Distillery, explains the process for picking up free sanitizer made and distributed by the distillery. The video shows people lined up outside the distillery waiting to get sanitizer, and employees distributing sanitizer inside. Vikre also explains how to use the sanitizer. Also included is in...
Creator:
Vikre Distillery
Contributor:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the fourth of a series of four Instagram posts. According to the creator, these posts document "the progression from open with extra care and sanitation to closed for the health and safety of our community." This post reads: "When it is safe for us to reopen we will take care of you and your hair on a sliding scale basis. We are aware of...
Creator:
Wright, Adeline; Adeline Inc.
Created:
2020-03-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A schedule of virtual events in Duluth and the surrounding area for March 21, 2020. The Facebook page Virtual Duluth is "A place to post all the upcoming virtual events happening in Duluth by so many of our talented community members."
Creator:
Dressel, Matt
Created:
2020-03-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Two Vikre Distillery employees standing behind a table distributing sanitizer that was made at the distillery. Two members of the public are on the other side of the table, waiting to pick up sanitizer. The employees are wearing gloves. Vikre Distillery posted this photo when they ran out of their first batch of house-made sanitizer. Vikre Disti...
Creator:
Vikre Distillery
Created:
2020-03-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A schedule of virtual events in Duluth and the surrounding area for March 19, 2020. The Facebook page Virtual Duluth is "A place to post all the upcoming virtual events happening in Duluth by so many of our talented community members."
Creator:
Dressel, Matt
Created:
2020-03-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Advertisement shows instructions for three at-home cocktail kits, which were available for pick-up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The kits are for Vikre Gals of November, Vikre Spruce Gin Gimlet, and Vikre Honor Brand Old Fashioned. Vikre Distillery is a local business in Canal Park in Duluth, Minnesota.
Creator:
Vikre Distillery
Created:
2020-03-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this short video Emily Vikre, one of the owners of Vikre Distillery, shows customers how to make a negroni cocktail at home, talks about how she is feeling during the first few days of social distancing, and sings a Norwegian drinking song. Vikre Distillery is a local business in Canal Park in Duluth, Minnesota.
Creator:
Vikre Distillery
Contributor:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-03-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign is on Park Point off of Lake Avenue South near the “S Curve” parking lot which has beach access. It is maintained by the Park Point Community Club.
Creator:
Brown, Aimee
Created:
2020-03-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Hawkins, Jerry
Created:
2020-03-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This PowerPoint presentation documents Jazmin Wong's experiences in Duluth, Minnesota from March 16 to August 13, 2020. Topics include Jazmin's work as the Indigenous First Arts and Gift Shop Coordinator at the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO), and as a piano teacher at Hamline Music, Note Worthy Kids, and AICHO. The presen...
Creator:
Wong, Jazmin; Vainio, Ivy
Created:
2020-03-16 - 2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the second of a series of four Instagram posts. According to the creator, these posts document "the progression from open with extra care and sanitation to closed for the health and safety of our community." This post reads: "Our Statement of Intention: We at Adeline Inc, including Peach Tattoo will plan to be open and operational as lon...
Creator:
Wright, Adeline; Adeline Inc.
Created:
2020-03-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Interview 18 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Gail Behrens McArdle, the first lesbian activist with the gay and lesbian student office at Mankato State University in the 1970’s. With a friend, she started the Cup of Warmth women’s coffeehouse in Mankato for students and community women. After movi...
Creator:
McArdle, Gail Behrens
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2020-03-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is the first of a series of four Instagram posts. According to the creator, these posts document "the progression from open with extra care and sanitation to closed for the health and safety of our community." This post reads: "We are majorly ramping up our already outstanding sanitation practice to ensure that we can serve our customers du...
Creator:
Wright, Adeline; Adeline Inc.
Created:
2020-03-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Booker-Drew, Froswa'
Created:
2020-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
From the creator: "The UMD men's hockey team gives a final stick salute to Amsoil Arena. They would not know this would be getting off the ice for the rest of the season as the playoffs would be cancelled the next week. The Bulldogs had a chance a making history with a 3-peat, but it would not be in 2020."
Creator:
Smith, Drew
Created:
2020-03-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
These press releases were published on the City of Duluth website and document the City's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020, 2021, and 2022. Topics include closures of city buildings, playgrounds, and libraries; school closures; limitations on gatherings; mask mandates; CARES funding; and vaccines; as well as information on the reop...
Creator:
City of Duluth
Created:
2020-03-06 - 2022-06-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A 2,700-word narrative timeline with photos comprising the creator's Duluth, Minnesota 2020 pandemic story from March through April 2020. The author discusses communicating with friends and frequenting local businesses before and during the stay-at-home order; learning that friends and acquaintances had contracted COVID-19; how cross-country ski...
Creator:
Ellis, Lane R.
Created:
2020-03-04 - 2020-04-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
From the creator: "This was on the sidewalk at the Essentia Health hospital employee entrance. I saw it when I was leaving after a 5 day stretch of call in the beginning of the COVID pandemic. It unexpectedly brought tears."
Creator:
Murphy, Darcy
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Chuayi Yang was born in Gien, France in 1978 and lived in a small town, Aubigny-sur-Nere, with her family until 1990. That year, her parents moved their family to St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States. Chuayi studied in the St. Paul public school district and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a bachelors degree in En...
Creator:
Yang, Chuayi
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
From the creator: "This is a video diary that I filmed in Duluth in the year 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak. It embodies a sense of the strange and uncanny feeling of life during this global pandemic. Images, Words (voiceover), and Editing by Allen Killian-Moore. The music is from an old public domain recording, though I don't know who is sin...
Creator:
Killian-Moore, Allen
Contributor:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the third of a series of four Instagram posts. According to the creator, these posts document "the progression from open with extra care and sanitation to closed for the health and safety of our community." This post reads: "My salon, my heart and my sanctuary will still be there, clean and bright and beautiful waiting for the day when i...
Creator:
Wright, Adeline; Adeline Inc.
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy Mouacheupao is a Program Officer for Creative Placemaking with the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (TC LISC) supporting community organizations to leverage arts and culture for community and economic development throughout the Twin Cities. She was awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2011 to research the Hmong diaspor...
Creator:
Mouacheupao, Kathy
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2020 production of Machinal. Run dates: March 5-22, 2020. (Note: Performances were canceled midway through the run due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the last performance was likely March 7.) Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Dudley Experimental Theatre. Director: William Payne. Cast list...
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, Dan
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mai Vang was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she graduated from Johnson High School in 2001. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology and Womens Studies with a minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she studied Anthropology and ...
Creator:
Vang, Mai
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Drawing of several face masks. The drawing also includes: the title, "Mask"; the artist's name, "Toko N"; and the date "March 2020". The artist is 11 years old. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of ...
Creator:
Nakajima, Toko
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A list of prompts related to COVID-19 and quarantine for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff), as well as Duluth community educators, artists, students of all levels, and hobbyists, brought together by o...
Creator:
Twu, Krista
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from organizations, institutions, medical facilities, and others in need of face masks and other PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic between March and June of 2020. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led community response to the PPE shortage at the ...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This document is the "Responses" spreadsheet generated by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade Google form titled "Requesting Donated Masks - I NEED MASKS." It documents the submissions by organizations and individuals to that online form. The Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from organizations, institutions, med...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03 - 2020-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This internal document contains ideas for social media posts and messaging for the Twin Ports Mask Brigade. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led community response to the PPE shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic." (Description from the organization's website.) It organized the collection of PPE from community memb...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This spreadsheet shows two drop-off points for masks and other PPE collected by Twin Ports Mask Brigade volunteers. Volunteers picked up PPE from the homes of individuals and from other sites, and dropped them off at one of these drop-off sites. They were then distributed by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade organizers. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "st...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This template email was used to ask businesses and organizations to donate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to the Twin Ports Mask Brigade. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led community response to the PPE shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic." (Description from the organization's website.) It organized the co...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from individuals donating face masks and other PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic between March and June of 2020. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led community response to the PPE shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic." (Description from...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This document is the "Responses" spreadsheet generated by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade Google form titled "Twin Ports Mask Brigade MASK DONATION - I HAVE MASKS." It documents submissions by individuals to that online form. The Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from people donating face masks and other PPE ...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03 - 2020-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This spreadsheet was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to schedule volunteers to pick up masks and other PPE from the homes of individuals who donated those items, and from other sites. It includes instructions for pick-ups, and color coding for neighborhoods in the Twin Ports. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led commun...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from people who wanted to volunteer with the organization, to pick up and deliver masks and/or provide other skills. Volunteers signed up between March and May 2020. The Twin Ports Mask Brigade "started up as a volunteer-led community response to the PPE shortage at...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This document is the "Responses" spreadsheet generated by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade Google form titled "Twin Ports Mask Brigade VOLUNTEERS - I WANT TO VOLUNTEER." It documents submissions by individuals to that online form. The Google form was used by the Twin Ports Mask Brigade to collect information from people who wanted to volunteer with t...
Creator:
Twin Ports Mask Brigade
Created:
2020-03 - 2020-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This series of three photographs shows how a University of Minnesota Duluth employee's workspace evolved between March 2020 and June 2021, while they were working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the creator: "I documented how my workspace evolved during my time working from home. I took a picture of my workspace during March 2020 wh...
Creator:
Jones, Kayleen
Created:
2020-03 - 2021-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Interview 17 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is one of two with Barb Wieser. In this conversation, Barb talks about her activism and organizing in Iowa City, Iowa from 1968 to 1986. She was a founding member of the Iowa City Women’s Press, Aunt Lute Books and Bergamot Books. She was also active in the Wo...
Creator:
Wieser, Barb
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2020-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Le Vo came to the United States seeking education and economic opportunity. He had difficulty adjusting to the language and culture, but was able to find friends through religion and school.
Creator:
Vo, Le
Created:
2020-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-02-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
From a young age, Jacob knew something felt off about the way others saw him. He would eventually come to learn that he was transgender and shared this discovery with his mother, Janette Lawson. Janette joins BiCities! to share her experience of raising a transgender child and to offer advice for other parents.
Contributor:
Lawson, Janet (Guest)
Created:
2020-02-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-02-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2020 production of The Little Prince. Run dates: February 6-15, 2020. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre. Director: Ann Aiko Bergeron. Cast list--The Little Prince: Austin Becker; Aviator: Jack Senske; King/Businessman/Geographer: Zachariah Sterner; Conceited Man/Lam...
Creator:
Groehler, Brett
Created:
2020-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Interview 16 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is the second interview with Toni McNaron, former Professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the founders of the Women’s Studies Department and the Maiden Rock Women’s Learning Institute. Toni talks about the tensions within organizations between out ...
Creator:
McNaron, Toni
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2020-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Three emails from the Dean of the Semester at Sea study abroad program sent to students participating in the program. The emails are dated January 23, 2020 through March 12, 2020, and document changes to the Semester at Sea schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These include canceling stops in China, diverting from ports in Malaysia and India, ...
Creator:
Semester at Sea
Contributor:
Taylor, Makayla
Created:
2020-01-23; 2020-02-15; 2020-03-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-01-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
LaSaia Wade is an Afro-Puerto Rican indigenous trans woman, activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of this oral history interview, she was the Director of Brave Space Alliance, the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing resources, progra...
Shelby Chestnut is an Indigenous, mixed race, Two Spirit community organizer and public policy advocate based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, they were Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center, having previously served as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Vio...
Four emails from the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China (americancitizensinchina@state.gov) regarding the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. The emails are dated January 17, 2020 through January 31, 2020, and document the increase in travel advisory status from "Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions" through "Level 4: Do Not Travel." These emai...
Creator:
U.S. Department of State; U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China
Contributor:
Taylor, Makayla
Created:
2020-01-17; 2020-01-21; 2020-01-28; 2020-01-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ash Stephens is a Black transmasculine anti-criminalization activist and community organizer based in Chicago. At the time of this interview, he was Manager of Policy & Strategy at the Transgender Law Center, a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC,) and a board member at th...
Carter Brown is a Black trans man, activist, and community organizer from Dallas, Texas. Brown is the founder of Black Transmen, Inc., and served as its Director at the time of this oral history interview. He also works with the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC, is highly active in community organizing efforts among Black trans men, and has ...
Creator:
Brown, Carter (interviewee); Stylz, Diamond (interviewee)
Sam Ames is a white transmasculine civil rights attorney, anti-conversion therapy activist, and theologian based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the interim executive director of Our Family Coalition - an organization that advocates for and serves LGBTQ+ youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, ...
Aldita Gallardo is a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and as a board member at El/La Para Translatinas, a community center, public health, and anti-viol...
JD Davids is a white trans journalist, writer, AIDS activist, and advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS and chronic illnesses. At the time of this interview, he was director of JD Strategies, a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective, and a board member of ME Action, an advocacy organization for people living with myalgic encephal...
Kiyomi Fujikawa is a mixed-race queer trans femme and activist based in Seattle. At the time of this interview, she served as Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, an activist philanthropic organization supporting grassroots, queer and trans youth of color- and women of color-led movements, as well as on the boards of the Groundswell Fund, Funders Con...
Local transgender activist Barbara Satin joins BiCities! to discuss her work as Assistant Faith Work Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force, as well as aging as a transgender person. Her story of finding affirmation and acceptance of herself in the context of her faith is complex and compelling,
Contributor:
Satin, Barbara (Guest)
Created:
2020-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Once St. Paul City Council President Bob Sylvester, Susan Kimberly came out as trans on the front page of the St. Paul Dispatch in 1983. Fifteen years later, Mayor Norm Coleman appointed her to serve as Deputy Mayor of St. Paul. She has written a play about her life, "Superman Becomes Lois Lane," which will run from February 8 to March 1, 2020 a...
Contributor:
Kimberly, Susan (Guest)
Created:
2020-01-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
These ten embroidered patches were created by Advantage Emblem & Screen Printing, a local business in Duluth, Minnesota. From the creator: "Advantage Emblem creates embroidered patches and lapel pins for organizations nationwide. As of 2020 we have we have over 5000 different patch designs. We create patches for different activities, historical ...
Creator:
Advantage Emblem & Screen Printing
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
An instrumental song arranged and performed by Gaelynn Lea Tressler. In her interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Gaelynn, a professional musician, discusses the role in her life of writing and performing music during the COVID-19 pandemic. This song was originally released in 2015. This item is related to "Interview ...
Creator:
Tressler, Gaeylnn Lea
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is one of a series of seven diptychs showing the experiences of the creator and her family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were created as a final project for a University of Minnesota Duluth class in the spring of 2020. The two images in this diptych show two boys playing on a trampoline. One image is a wide sho...
Creator:
Munkeby, Mae
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this short video, Herb Fineday Jr. speaks about the importance of staying at home to flatten the curve of COVID-19, as well as safety precautions to take when going out for essentials, such as wearing a face mask and washing hands. Fineday is dressed in pow wow regalia, and he dances at the beginning and end of the video. This video was creat...
Creator:
Fineday, Herb Jr.
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Digital image created for an online gaming group. The image shows a cartoon icon for a creator, "Blue," and two cartoon images of a green pear with the word "Pears" beneath it. One of the images of a pear is pixelated. The background of the image is white and pink. This item is related to "Interview with Brittany V. Hecker."
Creator:
Hecker, Brittany V.
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is one of a series of seven diptychs showing the experiences of the creator and her family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were created as a final project for a University of Minnesota Duluth class in the spring of 2020. The two images in this diptych show Mae's father doing yard work, digging with a shovel near ...
Creator:
Munkeby, Mae
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A series of drawings from Brian Barber's drawing tutorial videos. These daily videos were posted to the Facebook group Virtual Duluth in the Spring of 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. These items are related to "Interview with Brian Barber."
Creator:
Barber, Brian
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This series of 45 portraits depicts essestial workers doing their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professions in the series include grocery store workers, medical workers, K-12 school employees, mail carriers, protesters, and many more. The original pieces are pastel on paper. These images are related to "Interview with Carolyn Olson."
Creator:
Olson, Carolyn
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
These decals were placed on doors around the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. They read: "Stop The Spread of COVID-19, Face Covering Required." The text is in red on all the signs. The backgrounds of the three signs are gold, white, and beige, respectively. The signs also include a line drawing of a face mask.
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
An outdoor table containing snacks, drinks, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Two people are standing near the table, but far apart from each other. Both are wearing masks. The arm of a third person is also visible, reaching towards the hand sanitizer. This item is related to "Interview with Brittany V. Hecker."
Creator:
Hecker, Brittany V.
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Digital image created for an online gaming group. The image shows a cartoon seagull with the words "Illegal Seagulls" and "Kawaii." This item is related to "Interview with Brittany V. Hecker."
Creator:
Hecker, Brittany V.
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Digital image created for an online gaming group. The image shows a cartoon seagull with the words "Illegal Seagulls" and "Kawaii." This item is related to "Interview with Brittany V. Hecker."
Creator:
Hecker, Brittany V.
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
