At the time of this interview, Sister Joanne Lucid was the Director of the AIDS Ministry of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In 1986, Sr. Lucid founded the first Diocesan office of AIDS ministry in the world, and through the Diocesan AIDS ministry was very active in providing housing for HIV/AIDS patients at Brother Louie’s, Grace Ho...
Creator:
Lucid, Joanne
Contributor:
Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2014-05-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Topics include: Reflection on the experiences of his grandmother, a Holodomor survivor and Ost Arbeiter during World War II; coping mechanisms and the importance of storytelling for processing traumatic and negative experiences; learning about the Holodomor from books in the 1980’s; 82nd anniversary commemoration; Soviet persecution of Ukrainian...
Creator:
Iwaskewycz, Stefan
Contributor:
Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Ukrainian American Community Center
Created:
2019-05-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
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.
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.
Stephanie Luz Hernandez, LMFT is a queer Latinx trans-femme licensed mental health therapist, gender health specialist, and trans health activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of this interview, she worked at a clinic in Oakland, California supporting trans and gender nonconforming adolescents and adults in accessing gender-af...
Interview 6 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Sue Knollenberg, one of the original leaders of the Lesbian Advocacy Committee of the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women. Sue came out in a supportive environment during her years studying women’s studies and studio art at the Experimental College a...
Creator:
Knollenberg, Sue
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2019-08-19
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 Sue Maki, who talks about her time with the Aurora Northland Lesbian Center. Mak...
Creator:
Maki, Sue
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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
At the time of this interview, Sue Purchase was involved in several harm reduction, needle exchange, and safe injection projects across the United States. Purchase is the founder of Women with a Point, a syringe exchange program aimed at reducing the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other bloodborne pathogens among women drug users in Minneapolis. I...
Creator:
Purchase, Susan
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-5-1
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Sue Ring explains her father's wholesale business and how her family moved from South Dakota to Minneapolis. Her family belonged to Beth El. Sue explains how she was a medical technician and worked with the army in Colorado Springs during the war. Her husband Marty Ring also talks about his personal information such as his gen...
Creator:
Ring, Sue
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
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.
Audio file of an interview with Sylvia Peilen conducted by Ann Greenberg. The interview includes: Peilen family history, including growing up on the East side and moving to the West side of St. Paul; Jewish-gentile relations; Sylvia Peilen's schooling and early employment history. Peilen also recalls her work with several different community ser...
Creator:
Sylvia Peilen, 1896-1986
Contributor:
Greenberg, Ann (Interviewer)
Created:
1978
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
T. Aaron Hans is a white butch transmasculine person who grew up in Germany and the United States and uses he and ze. At the time of this oral history, Hans was working as at Hamline University. In this oral history ze discusses hir early understandings of gender identity at a young age, being heavily bullied in school; hir experience with trans...
Creator:
Hans, T. Aaron
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Taffy Johnson is a fa'afafine and trans woman of color from Sāmoa, and a queer and trans activist and community organizer in the Pacific Islander communities of South King County, Washington. At the time of this interview, she served as the executive director of United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA,) an advocacy and mutual su...
Tamara Urban is a white female from South Dakota who founded TransAction South Dakota, Inc. At the time of this interview, Urban was retired. In this oral history she talks at length about being intersex. She also touches upon the cultural geography of Sioux Falls, her experience with employment discrimination, and care work within the trans com...
Creator:
Urban, Tamara
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Tamlyn Murray is a white gender nonconforming female from Centerville, Minnesota. She talks about coming out, and her interactions with healthcare. She discusses relationships, and the issues within the trans community, such as racism, trans misogyny, and internalized transphobia.
Creator:
Murray, Tamlyn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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
Topics include: Recollection of history of mother Maria (Mykas) Wowk, including dekulakization/dispossession by Communists, surviving the Holodomor famine-genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine, World War II and being a Displaced Person; growing up in the Ukrainian diaspora in the Twin Cities; intergenerational trauma.
Creator:
Riabokin, Tatiana
Contributor:
Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Ukrainian American Community Center
Created:
2019-06-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
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.
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.
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
Terry Dickelman is a white transgender male from Des Moines, Iowa. At the time of this interview, Dickelman was living in Minnesota. In this oral history, he recounts early childhood experiences, relationships between language and identity, challenges in his earlier stages of transition, the complexities of passing, and his perspectives on trans...
Creator:
Dickelman, Terry
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.
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.
Thalia Hernandez is a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director at Equality Virginia, the leading LGBTQ advocacy organization in the commonwealth. In this oral history interview, Hernandez discusses her upbringing, experiences of ...
In this interview, Theatrice "T" Williams (1934 - ) gives his personal background and reasons for arriving in Minneapolis in the 1960s as a social worker on the North Side. Williams describes his relationship with the Phyllis Wheatley Center (director from 1965 - 1972) within the context of the American civil rights movement. The race riots on P...
Creator:
Williams, Theatrice, (1934 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Minnesota Issues was a half-hour weekly television program produced by University Media Resources of the University of Minnesota that was broadcast on public television channel KTCA, St. Paul. The program was produced and hosted by former Minneapolis mayor and University public affairs professor Arthur Naftalin from 1976 to 1988.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. University Media Resources
Contributor:
Naftalin, Arthur; Hoefsteade, Al; Marlow, Andrew (Producer)
Created:
1977-01-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
The Reverend Louis Mitchell is a Black trans man, elder, ordained clergy, trans activist and advocate. At the time of this interview, he was the executive director and co-founder of TransFaith, a multi-tradition, multi-racial, multi-gender, multi-generational organization working to support transgender spiritual/cultural/energetic workers and th...
Thomas Murray, or Pastor Tom, shares his experiences of life as a Lutheran pastor living on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a pastor at two remote churches, one in Lutsen, Minnesota and the other in Finland, Minnesota. He talks about the changes in the lives of his parishioners, his c...
Creator:
Murray, Thomas
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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
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
Timothy Broman shares his experiences of living under COVID-19 in Northeastern Minnesota. He describes how his visits with his 88-year-old mother, who also lives in Duluth, have changed over the months, from the beginning of the pandemic to now. Tim is currently working in retail and details the new safety procedures required at his job, which i...
Creator:
Broman, Timothy
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-17
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 Tina Olson, who discusses her experiences with Mending the Sacred Hoop. The inte...
Creator:
Olson, Tina
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2008-01-02; 2014-10-16
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 Tina Olson, who discusses her work with Safe Haven Shelter. Olson begins by talk...
Creator:
Olson, Tina
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-02-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
