Reneka Evans is a Black female who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time of this oral history, Evans was working at The Red Door. In this oral history, Evans discusses moving to Minneapolis in the early 90s, drag culture, encounters with healthcare, sexuality, workplace discrimination, the importance of community, and her job as...
Creator:
Evans, Reneka
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Roze (R.B.) Brooks is a white gender queer person raised in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of this interview, R.B. was a graduate student. In this oral history, they speak at length about queer and trans activism and advocacy work in higher education at University of Minnesota Duluth. They also talk about sexism, participating in theatre and c...
Creator:
Brooks, Roze (R.B.)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ryan Li Dahlstrom is a mixed Asian and white trans masculine person from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Dahlstrom was working as a consultant. In this oral history, Dahlstrom discusses coming out in college, activism, building trans community spaces and trans leadership, racial justice within transgender and queer communities; and the...
Creator:
Dahlstrom, Ryan Li
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Sayuri Hernandez is a Puerto Rican trans woman from Houston, Texas. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and early life, experiences of addiction and recovery, her thoughts on trans politics, and her experiences of moving through the corporate world and the public sphere as a trans woman.
Creator:
Hernandez, Sayuri
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-09-12
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tona Brown is a African American transgender woman from Alexandria, Virginia. At the time of this interview, Brown was working as a musician, a teacher, and a performer. world class, In this oral history, she speaks about her childhood spent in Virginia, her voice, coming out as a transgender woman, and her family relationships. She also touches...
Creator:
Brown, Tona
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-09-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Vanessa Sheridan is a white transgender woman raised in the South. At the time of this interview, Sheridan was the Director of Transgender Relations and Community Engagement at Center on Halsted (Chicago IL). In this oral history, Sheridan speaks at length about the Center on Halsted, her involvement with the City of Lakes Crossgender Community,...
Creator:
Sheridan, Vanessa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Zeam Porter is a Black and Blackfoot demiboy from Minnesota who goes by they/he/Z. At the time of this oral history, Porter was a student at Macalester College living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Z talks about the organizing work they did with OutFront, mental health, basketball, poetry, family relationships and family support. He also to...
Creator:
Porter, Zeam
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-29
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ani Koch is a white genderqueer person from Dubuque, Iowa. They talk about their experiences at school growing up, coming to better understand their gender, and their experience with and thoughts on drag. They share what trans people have inspired them, and what it is like to be perceived by some people as a white man. They discuss their family ...
Creator:
Koch, Ani
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Anthony Ceballos is a Native and Hispanic androgynous person raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Ceballos was living and working in Minnesota. In this oral history he talks about his experiences with femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. He also touches upon bullying, his childhood, his family relationships, goth c...
Creator:
Ceballos, Anthony
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Aria Said is a Black American and Ethiopian woman of trans experience from Oregon. At the time of this interview she lived and worked in San Francisco. In this oral history she talks at length about her childhood and familial experiences with race, gender, and visibility as well as her mentor Bobbie Jean Baker. She also touches upon 2000s trans ...
Creator:
Said, Aria
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Arin McNeese is a mixed Native American and white trans male from Minnesota who uses he, she, and they. At the time of this interview, McNeese was living in California. In this oral history, McNeese speaks at length about their childhood, coming out, gender fluidity, transitioning, dating, sobriety, and organizations they have been a part of. Sh...
Creator:
McNeese, Arin
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ash Farah is a East African/Black trans man who has lived in New York, Minnesota, and "the middle part of East Africa". A the time of this interview he was attending college in Minneapolis. In this oral history he touches upon topics such as growing up in an Islamic household, homelessness, Cafe SouthSide, and immigrating to America post-9/11. H...
Creator:
Farah, Ash
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ashlee Saparalan is a Filipina female from the Philippines. She talks about her family and growing up in the Philippines, and compares life in the Philippines to her experiences in the United States. She talks about working in Thailand, religion, and meeting and marrying her husband.
Creator:
Sapalaran, Ashlee
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ashley Finch is a white trans femme person from Saint Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Finch was working as an artist based in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Finch speaks at length about her gender and sexuality through time, her experiences at a Catholic school named St. Bernard, mental health, and her familial relatio...
Creator:
Finch, Ashley
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the lesbian community during the 1980s, his journey to activism, and his work in trans healthcare activism. He discusses the Philadelphia Trans Healthcare...
Creator:
Singer, Ben
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Branwen Zakariasen is a white trans woman originally from Texas who later spent time in Minneapolis and Portland. At the time of this interview, she was working as a customer support specialist. In this oral history Zakariasen discusses naming, healing from trauma and abuse, taking up labels, family relationships, sexism, and the video game indu...
Creator:
Zakariasen, Brawen
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Breatta Bee Amore is a Black trans female from Chicago and Milwaukee. At the time of this interview, she was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Amore touches upon topics such as gay bars in the Twin Cities from the 1980s and onward, including the Gay 90s, the Saloon, and Brass Rail. She also speaks about working and perfo...
Creator:
Amore, Breatta Bea
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
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.
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.
Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee is a Black trans woman from Georgia and the founder of LaGender Inc. At the time of this interview, Chamblee was the Executive Director of LaGender. In this oral history, Chamblee talks about her HIV/AIDS activism, housing insecurity, clubbing in Georgia during the 1970s/1980s, and her encounters with law enforcement. She ...
Creator:
Chamblee, Dee Dee
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Diana Green is a white female who has lived in New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Green was working as a caregiver for People with AIDS, an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and on her graphic memoir titled A Sharp Invitation. In this oral history, Green speaks at len...
Creator:
Green, Diana
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dominic Giovon Chilko is a bi-racial Afro-Latinx trans man from Eagan, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, he discusses his childhood, relationships, and experiences of transition, his thoughts on chosen family, trans politics, and the trans agenda, and his experience as a performing artist and drag king. Specifically, he discusses his ex...
Creator:
Chilko, Dominic Giovon
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the second of two interviews between Jenkins and Ewing held in the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. At the time of this interview, Ewing was retired and living in the Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ewing speaks at length about drag she performed under the nam...
Creator:
Ewing, Donna
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Elle Hearns, founder of the Marsha P Johnson Institute and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, was assigned Black at birth. At the time of this interview Hearns was organizing in Ohio. In this oral history she speaks about the serial murders of Black trans women in Ohio alongside her experiences with law enforcement which led he...
Creator:
Hearns, Elle
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ethan O’Brien is a white male from Holliston, Massachusetts. He talks about his relationship with his family, and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality, including how the program has changed over the years. He talks about volunteering with different organizations, the problem with organizations prioritizing marriage...
Creator:
O'Brien, Ethan
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
finn schneider is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Michigan. At the time of this interview, schneider was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, scheider speaks at length about gender and contextuality, fluidity, working in higher education, their family relationships, and their involvement in an educational organization ca...
Creator:
schneider, finn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Freya Richman is a Jewish trans woman from Appleton, Wisconsin. She became involved with 20 Percent Theater and their show The Naked I, which she was able to use as a platform to tell her story. She discusses what it is like to come out as trans later in life, and the impact that had on her relationships. She talks about workplace discrimination...
Creator:
Richman, Freya
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Gaebriel Lyrek is a white male from Montrose, Minnesota. At the time of this interview he was working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history, he speaks at length about his familial relations, growing up in a rural community, and his encounters with healthcare. He also touches upon topics such as drag, clothing, and his romantic relation...
Creator:
Lyrek, Gaebriel
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
George Hoagland is a Black American androgynous person who uses all pronouns. At the time of this interview, Hoagland was an Associate Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In this oral history, they speak at length about changes in language and identity through time, his relationships with family members, and growing up in San...
Creator:
Hoagland, George
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Hannah Jo Stein is a white trans woman from Georgia. At the time of this interview, Stein was living in Minnesota and working as a jazz club host. In this oral history Stein talks at length about being closeted, her life after college, her relationships with her friends, and her work history. Stein is active in the theater community and has both...
Creator:
Stein, Hannah
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-10-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
JAC Stringer is a Native American two spirit, genderqueer femme trans guy from Ohio. Stringer has founded multiple entities including the Heartland Trans Wellness Group, GenderBLOC, Cincinnati Trans Community Group, and Trans Identified Providers Support (TIPS). At the time of this video, he was a community organizer based out of the Midwest. In...
Creator:
Stringer, JAC
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.
James Schwartz is a white trans man from Monticello, Minnesota. He discusses growing up in a conservative town, and his relationships with his family. He talks about his trans identity, and the impact growing up with a queer grandmother who was active in the LGBT community. He gives his thoughts on the Program in Human Sexuality, and talks about...
Creator:
Schwartz, James
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jane Fee is a white trans woman raised in Maryland. At the time of this interview, Fee was a retired and living in St. Petersburg, Florida. In this oral history, she touches upon her 29 years in the United States Military, her childhood, coming out in 1989, and her advocacy work. She also talks about organizations and entities she has been invol...
Creator:
Fee, Jane
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Joy Michael Starkey is a white genderqueer non-binary trans person from Washington. At the time of this interview, Starkley was a PhD student. In this oral history, Starkey speaks at length about starting a Gay-Straight Alliance in High School, their sister, race and gender, working in academia, racism, and being non-binary. They also touch upon...
Creator:
Starkey, Joy Michael
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
K. Davis Senseman is a white gender-queer person from Pittsburgh who uses all pronouns. At the time of this interview, Senseman was working as a lawyer based out of Northeast Minneapolis. In this oral history, Senseman speaks at length about language and identity, being a parent, intersectionality, and their familial relationships. She also touc...
Creator:
Senseman, K. Davis
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kya Concepcion is a mixed Native, Black, and white trans femme person from Marietta, Georgia. At the time of this interview, they were living in the Twin Cities. In this interview Concepcion touches upon topics including homelessness, their family relationships, recovery, and workplace discrimination. They also talk about their goals for the fut...
Creator:
Concepcion, Kya
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-10-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black trans communities. Specifically, she recounts her work to found a support group for trans people of color in Detroit at the age of 17, her experience wi...
Creator:
Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mara Keisling is a white transgender woman from Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, Keisling was the Executive Director at the National Center for Transgender Equality. In this oral history, Keisling speaks at length about her family relationships, naming, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the importance of trans people ...
Creator:
Keisling, Mara
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Maxwell Poessnecker is a white trans masculine person raised in Nebraska who goes by he and sometimes they. At the time of this interview, Poessnecker was working as the Associate Director of Student Life and Director of LGBTQ Services at Century College. In this oral history, Poessnecker speaks at length about masculinity, his family relationsh...
Creator:
Poessnecker, Maxwell
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.