Canyon Carballosa is a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students H...
Carey McWilliams, regular contributor to Common Ground 1941-1950, interviewed by William Beyer, 24 June 1977 at McWilliams'. Mr. Beyer is interviewing Mr. McWilliams about an editorial magazine named Common Ground. He inquires about how Common Ground was an institution to help publish new authors, mainly immigrant and ethnic authors who otherwis...
Creator:
McWilliams, Carey
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Carla Hamilton shares her experiences living under COVID-19. She shares that when the news first came out about the pandemic, she wasn’t too worried and she traveled to San Francisco. She reveals that she and her son had COVID-19 in March and she describes what that experience was like for them. She mentions that her boyfriend recently got teste...
Creator:
Hamilton, Carla
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-09-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Both Carly Hiti and Kaila Formanek speak about their advocacy and therapy work with PAVSA [Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault] in Duluth, Minnesota and of their personal lives during this time of COVID-19. Carly describes her work as an outreach advocate at PAVSA and Kaila says that she is one of the two therapists that work at PAVSA. ...
Creator:
Hiti, Carly; Formanek, Kaila
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Caroline Pelzel, who discusses her work with the Aurora Northland Lesbian Center...
Creator:
Pelzel, Caroline
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Carol Thompson, who discusses her work with Duluth's Domestic Abuse Intervention...
Creator:
Thompson, Carol
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Carolyn Olson recounts her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares that she is staying safely in her home and has been relatively okay during this time. She expresses concern for her two adult twin children, aged 25, who are both essential workers in the Twin Cities. She talks about how guidelines at their workpla...
Creator:
Olson, Carolyn
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-08-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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)
Carter Thurmond is a white trans dyke from Louisiana. At the time of this oral history, Thurmond was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Thurmond touches upon their childhood, community building, coming out to family, their gender and sexual evolution, their relationship experiences, combating heteronormativity, and gender...
Creator:
Thurmond, Carter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Catalina Velasquez is a Colombian transgender goddess. At the time of this interview, Velasquez was a political consultant based out of Washington DC. She speaks at length about topics including self-love, feminisms and feminist analysis, xenophobia/nativism, and systems of oppression. She also touches upon her involvement with organizations suc...
Creator:
Velasquez, Catalina
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Cathy Kiana Keiko Kapua is a Native Hawaiian māhūwahine and trans woman, community organizer, and public health advocate based on O'ahu. At the time of this interview, she was Deputy Director of the Trans Justice Funding Project, an organization that distributes grants and other funding to grassroots organizations led by and serving trans commun...
CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this oral history she talks extensively about her early life in Chicago, the prison industrial complex, the matrix of domination, and the TLGB community. S...
Creator:
McDonald, Chishaun (CeCe)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chad Pitts is a white transgender man from Arizona. At the time of this oral history, Pitts was a student living in Fargo, North Dakota. In this short oral history Pitts speaks about coming out, his romantic relationships, his family relationships, and transitioning.
Creator:
Pitts, Chad
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.
Charlene Bradshaw is a Black lesbian born and raised in Hawaii. In this oral history, Bradshaw speaks about his experiences being a Black transgender person in Minneapolis, alongside serving in the military for 22 years. He also touches upon his early childhood experiences of his gender awareness, Don't Ask Don't Tell, being a parent, harassment...
Creator:
Bradshaw, Charlene
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chase Strangio is a white transmasculine attorney and activist. At the time of this interview, he was a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and served as Deputy Director for Trans Justice of the organization's LGBT & HIV Project. Prior to joining the ACLU, Strangio worked at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York Cit...
Chloe Alexa Landry is a white trans lady from Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Landry was retired and living in Minnnesota. In this oral history, Landry speaks at length about early childhood, family relationships, losing friends to AIDS, changes in identity through time, encounters with healthcare, experiences with a Tr...
Creator:
Landry, Chloe Alexa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview 21 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Chris Cinque, a playwright, director, and actor. She is among the earliest out lesbian playwrights in the country to write positive plays with out lesbian characters. Early in her career, she wrote In Search of Meryl Strange for the Palace Theater and ...
Creator:
Cinque, Chris
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Christine Etima Colbenson reflects on her experiences with work, family, church, and life under the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares how her employment and experience as a social worker in Virginia, Minnesota has changed, including how she meets with clients, how she has lost the connection with coworkers, and even how she misses the transition tim...
Creator:
Colbenson, Christine Etima
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Christopher J. Cuevas is an Indigenous-Latinx, non-binary community organizer, educator, and peace practitioner based in Orlando, Florida. Since co-founding the organization in 2016 following the Pulse nightclub shooting, Cuevas has served as the executive director of QLatinx, a racial, social, and gender justice movement working toward the adva...
Christopher O’Brien shares his unique experiences in rural Finland, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the adjustments he had to make from working with around 325 people at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, to being at home with his family of four after he was laid off and then furloughed due to the pandemic. He descr...
Creator:
O'Brien, Christopher
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-07-26
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Michelle McMullin and Christopher Woolery, a married couple, were interviewed together and share their experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. They share their recollections of first learning about the novel coronavirus and discuss why they choose particular news outlets for information. They have three young children who...
Creator:
Woolery, Christopher; McMullin, Michelle
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
At the time of this interview, Chris Waller was a HERR (Health Education and Risk Reduction) coordinator at Hennepin County Medical Center's Positive Care Center, a clinic providing services to people living with HIV/AIDS. As a HERR coordinator, Waller served as the primary intake coordinator for clients on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxsis,) a me...
Creator:
Waller, Christine
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-07-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Chuck Hassebrook on 8/02/15 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Hassebrook, Chuck
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Grindberg, Kyle
Created:
2015-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
At the time of this interview, Chuck Peterson was the executive director of Clare Housing, an organization that provides housing for people living with HIV and AIDS in the Twin Cities, and a member of the board of directors for Cantus Vocal Ensemble and the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Peterson previously served as the Vice President of Memb...
Creator:
Peterson, Charles
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing); Margolis, Robin (video support)
Created:
2016-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
CJ is a mixed Native American and white trans man from Grand Forks, North Dakota. At the time of the interview they were a freshman at UND Grand Forks. They discuss how their first exposure to thinking about gender was by having a genderfluid partner in high school, and then later seeing a trans speaker talk about their transition made them real...
Creator:
Vondal, CJ
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.
Claire High shares her experience of living in Ely, Minnesota, a small town, during the time of COVID-19. She illustrates the conflicts that have arisen within the community between people who believe everyone should wear a mask for the safety of others, and those who believe they shouldn’t be forced to wear a mask because it infringes on their ...
Creator:
High, Claire
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
At the time of this interview, Clint Lende was the former director of MinnKota Health Project, an organization serving people living with HIV and AIDS in northwestern Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota. Lende began his work in HIV/AIDS counseling when he took a job counselling LGBT clients and clients living with HIV during his time in grad...
Creator:
Lende, Clinton
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2016-01-19; 2016-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview 7 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Connie Wolfe, one of the founders in 1972 of Sagaris, a women’s therapy collective in Minneapolis. In the late 1960’s she was an anti-Viet Nam war activist, part of the Get Clean for Gene movement, and a protester at the 1968 Democratic Convention. She ...
Creator:
Wolfe, Connie
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2019-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Corinne Feinberg discusses her early life (being born in 1933), and how her family came to Minneapolis in 1936. They moved to the North Side of Minneapolis because they sold their family grocery store in Iowa. Her father wanted to become more successful. Her mother was a legal secretary. Her husband worked in law.
Creator:
Feinberg, Corinne
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Interview with Craig Cox on 9/04/15 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Cox, Craig
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Grindberg, Kyle
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Cressida Silver is a transgender lesbian from Minnesota. She discusses her family and experiences growing up, starting a family, and her experience with work and getting her Master’s degree. She also talks about her changing relationship to activism over the years.
Creator:
Silver, Cressida
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Crispin Torres is a Latino trans masculine person. At the time of this oral history, Torres was working for Lambda Legal. In this oral history, Torres speaks at length about his childhood, coming out, being a musician, family relationships, chosen family, religion, racism, encounters with healthcare, and the shifts he's seen in transgender polit...
Creator:
Torres, Crispin
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-05-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Crystal Pelkey shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about first hearing of the novel coronavirus in February. She recalls attending a Wilco concert on the tenth of March at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center [DECC] and noticing that the attendance was unusually low. She tells us that by mi...
Creator:
Pelkey, Crystal
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-10-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Damion Mendez is a Latino trans masculine identified person from St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Mendez was living in Minnesota. In this oral history Mendez speaks about transracial adoption, bullying, being raised in a primarily white family, his family relationships, bodily autonomy, masculinity, and transitioning. Mendez a...
Creator:
Mendez, Damion
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Dana Doyle, who discusses her work with the Center Against Sexual and Domestic A...
Creator:
Doyle, Dana
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-03-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Daniel Benoit shares his experience of living and creating during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the way he first heard about the novel coronavirus and details where he gets his news. He mentions that he intentionally follows a broad political spectrum of information and reads with a critical awareness of potential bias. He ex...
Creator:
Benoit, Daniel
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
