Adam Swanson shares stories about his life as a full-time working artist during the COVID-19 pandemic. He describes how he was able to work steadily at his rural property on his paintings, as well as complete some mural installations in the area while following social distancing guidelines. He describes changes to family plans, such as not being...
Creator:
Swanson, Adam
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-29
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ada Rubenstein (1917 - ) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota; became involved with Jewish organizations at an early age and later took on several leadership positions. In this interview, the women discuss Rubenstein's career in community service and the community's needs at the time, with detailed discussion about various organizations such as Hadas...
Creator:
Rubenstein, Ada, 1917 -
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
1984-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Adeline Fremland (Tendser) gives an account of her early life as a Jewish Minnesotan. She was born in Mankato, Minnesota to Maurice Tendser and Fanny Silverman, who were Russian immigrants. She discusses how they came through Canada in the late 1800s, living at first in a log cabin, and describes how Maurice peddled merchandis...
Creator:
Fremland, Adeline
Contributor:
Lipschultz, Ellen (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Adrian Lowe is a white male activist, organizer, and prison abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and a community organizer with Hearts on a Wire, a grassroots organization he co-founded that supports transgender incarcerated people ...
Agaiotupu Viena is a fa'afafine and trans woman from Amerika Samoa, educator, advocate, and community organizer based in the Seattle area. At the time of these interviews, she was Program Director for TRANSform Culture, an education and advocacy program of the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-area philanthropic organization prioritizing movements led...
Aidan Key is a white gender fluid trans man raised in the United States. At the time of this interview, Key was living and working in Washington as an educator and an organizer. In this oral history, Key speaks about coming out in lesbian, dyke, and leather communities as well as finding trans community in his thirties. Key also touches upon his...
Creator:
Key, Aidan
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Alan Stiegler gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, World War II veteran and legal practitioner. He was born in 1925 and raised in Minneapolis. His family background in is Russia and he describes some of their stories that involve working in a sweatshop in St. Paul and homesteading in North Dakota. Stiegler desc...
Creator:
Stiegler, Alan, 1925-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2009-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
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...
Alexander Martin shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about being unemployed for six weeks and the effects on his personal life. He is open about the combined challenges of staying home, having fewer social interactions, and the feeling of having less purpose while being laid off from work. He shares how this h...
Creator:
Martin, Alexander
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Topics include: Survivor accounts of Holodomor famine-genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine; local 50th and 80th anniversary commemorations; Harvest of Despair; post-WWII Ukrainian diaspora.
Creator:
Poletz, Alexander
Contributor:
Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Zielyk, Marta; Ukrainian American Community Center
Created:
2019-05-21; 2019-07-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Alex Griffin is a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbringing and education on her politics, her first forays into, experiences within, and thoughts on trans politics, community organizing, and direct action, her experienc...
Alex Iantaffi is a white non-binary gender-queer trans-masculine person who grew up in Rome and uses they and he. In this oral history they speak at length about about their early childhood; their identifications with and through lesbian, bisexual and trans communities in their twenties; and their relationship with his family members. He also to...
Creator:
Iantaffi, Alex
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Alexis Paige is a mixed Korean and white trans woman from Nevada and Oregon. At the time of this interview, she was working as a Legal Aid at Lambda Legal. In this oral history Paige spends a significant amount of time talking about her childhood and family relationships, racism, sexism, and how strangers read her race. She also speaks at length...
Creator:
Paige, Alexis
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Alexander Li-Hua Lee is a Asian American trans masculine activist and attorney from Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the Project Director for the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) initiative at Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Prior to joining Funders, Alex was a public interest career counselor at UC Berkeley Sc...
Alex Tankenoff (1905 - ) grew up poor and Jewish in St. Paul, Minnesota, eventually owning a successful brewery and brewery equipment company. In this interview, the discussion follows Tankenoff's life story, brewery business and involvement in the Bremer Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota. This interview was conducted by Dr. Linda Mack Schloff, ...
Creator:
Tankenoff, Alex, 1905 -
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2005-08-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Topics include: Participation and leadership in Ukrainian-American community in Twin Cities; memories of their Holodomor survivor grandmother; learning about the Holodomor in school in Ukraine in the 1990s; 80th and 85th anniversary Holodomor commemorations; preservation of 1940s-era language and customs in Twin Cities diaspora.
Creator:
Khrystych, Oleksiy; Khrystych, Alla
Contributor:
Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Pidhayny, Taras; Ukrainian American Community Center
Created:
2019-06-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
In this interview, Judge Allen Oleisky gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. He was born in 1938 in Pierre, SD, to immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland. Oleisky gives family background, describes their move to Minneapolis and gives an account of his childhood, which includes a description of the North...
Creator:
Oleisky, Allen, 1938-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Alonzo Wesley is a Black transgender man from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Wesley was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Wesley reflects on his experiences living in Minneapolis. Wesley describes what masculinity, family, and community mean to him. He also touches upon coming out, drag, gay bars, disability, encounters wit...
Creator:
Wesley, Alonzo
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Alyssandra Taylor is a Black trans woman or sometimes a trans feminine nonbinary person from Boston. She discusses coming out as gay at a young age, and being kicked out when she came out as trans. She discusses her acting work with True Colors and Theater Offensive in Boston, and acting in Charm at Mixed Blood Theater. She explains why she is s...
Creator:
Taylor, Alyssandra
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-05-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Amanda is a white trans woman. At the time of this interview, Amanda was living in Ellendale, Minnesota. In this oral history, Amanda discusses her experiences of gender non-conformity in the years before WWII in rural Minnesota, her experiences with gender affirming medical care in the 1950s and 1960s, and the community of trans women in Minnea...
Creator:
Amanda
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview 23 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Jo Den Boer, Mev Miller, Lori Schroeder, and Barb Wieser, four core members of the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Amazon Bookstore was a hub of the lesbian community in the Twin Cities. It was one of over 100 femini...
Creator:
Amazon Bookstore Collective
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-06-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Amber Burns shares her experiences living during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Artistic Director for the Duluth Playhouse Family Theatre, she recalls the day they had to shut down the theater due to the statewide shutdown. She tells us the theater was in the middle of a run of the play Matilda, with a performance scheduled that evening, when they ha...
Creator:
Burns, Amber
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-10-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Amber Haglund-Pagel shares her experiences of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the Safety and Training Officer for the city of Duluth, Amber recalls that very early in the pandemic Duluth secured enough personal protective equipment for the fire and police departments but she recalls just how little was known and how “unnerving”...
Creator:
Haglund-Pagel, Amber
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ameirah Neal is a Black woman from Washington, DC. At the time of this interview she was working as a Peer Ed Coordinator with a nonprofit organization in DC. In this oral history she speaks at length about growing up in Washington DC with her mother, homelessness, her employment history and experiences with workplace discrimination, and going t...
Creator:
Neal, Ameirah
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Businessman Amos Heilicher (1907 - ) grew up poor and Jewish in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Depression. As a teenager he started a coin-operated machine company that later blossomed into several successful businesses, including a national retail record chain, real estate, banking, restaurants and more. This interview focuses on the history o...
Creator:
Heilicher, Amos, 1917 -
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Interview 8 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Amy Lange, a member of A Women’s Coffeehouse Collective from 1980 to 1984. Upon graduating from Oberlin College, she moved to Minneapolis in part because she learned that a professor at the University of Minnesota, Toni McNaron, taught a course on lesbi...
Creator:
Lange, Amy
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2019-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Amy Little on 02/10/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Little, Amy
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Kuhn, Christopher
Created:
2016-02-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Amy Westbrook shares details and stories about her life working at home during the time of COVID-19 in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes how she first heard about the virus on the news, and began taking her own measures to clean her workspace at the Environmental Protection Agency Lab and offices in Duluth. She worked at a front desk and a common...
Creator:
Westbrook, Amy
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Interview 24 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Ana Silva, an activist and one of the organizers of Women of Color Stir Fry. After meeting a group of sober lesbians at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, she moved to the Twin Cities where her community were women centered at the Women’s Coffeehouse...
Creator:
Silva, Ana
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Anders Hultstrom speaks about life and work during the time of COVID-19. He describes hearing about the novel coronavirus very early on. As a paramedic and EMS [Emergency Medical Services] worker, he says that when those in his line of work hear about a new pathogen they consider the worst-case scenarios. He also says that as a paramedic, he was...
Creator:
Hultstrom, Anders
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-09-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Andrea Anderson is a Latina trans woman from Mexico City and Minnesota. In this oral history, Anderson details her experiences immigrating from Mexico to the United States. She also speaks about her early childhood experiences of gender awareness; experiences with police harassment and discrimination in the workplace; her spirituality; the impac...
Creator:
Anderson, Andrea
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
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 first of two interviews with Jenkins held in Phase 1. In this oral history, Andrea Jenkins and Rox Anderson talk at length about growing up in the west side of ...
Creator:
Jenkins, Andrea
Contributor:
Anderson, Roxanne (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Andre Reed is a Black man of trans experience from Indiana and Georgia. He talks about growing up and his family relationships, and transitioning at work. He recounts his experience and successes in the drag scene, and the response from other drag kings when he came out as trans. He also talks about the lack of visibility and representation of t...
Creator:
Reed, Andre
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-09-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Andrew (Drew) Ahl is a white trans man. At the time of this interview, Ahl was living and working in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In this oral history, Ahl recounts growing up in a religious military household with his dad, serving in the Air Force, working in the service industry, drag, LGBT bar cultures, and his eventual relocation to Minnesota,...
Creator:
Ahl, Andrew
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-07-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
