Interview 35 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Elissa Raffa, an activist and an organizer in the lesbian feminist community on the 1980s and early 1990s. She was a member of A Woman’s Coffeehouse Collective, involved in programming among other responsibilities. She was an early reader for Womyn’s B...
Creator:
Raffa, Elissa
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2024-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This talk deals with quantifying the rate of contraction of the relative entropy with respect to a reference probability measure under the action of a Markov kernel. Sharp contraction estimates for Markov kernels are useful in a variety of settings, including distributed communication and simulation, exact and approximate stochastic filtering, a...
Creator:
Raginsky, Maxim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Created:
2015-04-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Danika Ragnhild is a white trans woman from Crookston, MN. At the time of this interview, Ragnhild was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ragnhild speaks about her childhood, disability, abuse, her process of naming, renewal, polyamorous relationships, dating, and partnerships. Ragnhild also talks about her involvement with organizatio...
Creator:
Ragnhild, Danika
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Binita Rai was born in a refugee camp in Nepal in 1997. Her parents were born in Bhutan but moved to Nepal because they were Nepali and could not stay during the civil war. In 2014, the family applied for resettlement in the United States. In September 2015, they resettled in Colorado. A year later they moved to Minnesota to join relatives alrea...
Creator:
Rai, Binita
Created:
2017-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:633,600. Also shows congressional districts. "Ira B. Mills, Chas. E. Elmquist, O.P.B. Jacobson, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners; A.C. Clausen, Secretary; Thos. Yapp, Ass't. Sec'y." Insets: Vicinity of Duluth & Superior, Wis. Scale [1:506,880] -- Vicinity of Saint Paul & Minneapolis. Scale [1:316,8...
Creator:
Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota.; Cram, George Franklin (1841-1928); Mills, Ira B.; Elmquist, Charles Emil (1873-1948); Jacobson, Ole P.B.; Clausen, A. C.; Yapp, Thomas; George F. Cram Company
Created:
1914
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale [1:633,600]. Also shows congressional districts. "Ira B. Mills, Joseph G. Miller, C.F. Staples, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners; A.C. Clausen, Secretary." Insets: Vicinity of Duluth & Superior, Wis. Scale [1:506,880] -- Vicinity of Saint Paul & Minneapolis. Scale [1:316,800] -- Mesaba Range. Scale [1:506,880] -- ...
Creator:
Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota.; Cram, George Franklin (1841-1928); Mills, Ira B.; Miller, Joseph G.; Staples, Chas. F.; Clausen, A. C.; George F. Cram Company
Created:
1904
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:633,600. Also shows congressional districts. "Ira B. Mills, Chas. F. Staples, Chas. E. Elmquist, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners; A.C. Clausen, Secretary; Thos. Yapp, Ass't. Sec'y." Insets: Vicinity of Duluth & Superior, Wis. Scale [1:506,880] -- Vicinity of Saint Paul & Minneapolis. Scale [1:316,...
Creator:
Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota.; Cram, George Franklin (1841-1928); Mills, Ira B.; Staples, Chas. F.; Elmquist, Charles Emil (1873-1948); Clausen, A. C.; Yapp, Thomas; George F. Cram Company
Created:
1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
