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Description:: Barbara Satin is trans woman from St Paul. She discusses growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, and her experience coming out later in life. She talks about the importance of visibility, and the difficulty of finding a trans community at a time when everyone had to be so secretive. She was president of the City of the Lakes Crossgender Community in ...
Creator:: Satin, Barbara
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.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Interview 17 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is one of two with Barb Wieser. In this conversation, Barb talks about her activism and organizing in Iowa City, Iowa from 1968 to 1986. She was a founding member of the Iowa City Women’s Press, Aunt Lute Books and Bergamot Books. She was also active in the Wo...
Creator:: Wieser, Barb
Contributor:: Vecoli, Lisa
Created:: 2020-02-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2025-04-21

Description:: Interview 20 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is the second of two with Barb Wieser, a founder of the Iowa City Women’s Press and Aunt Lute Book Company, long-time member of the Amazon Bookstore worker cooperative, and author and lesbian feminist activist in Iowa City, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. In 1...
Creator:: Weiser, Barb
Contributor:: Vecoli, Lisa
Created:: 2021-04-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2025-04-21

Description:: Interview 26 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Barrie Borich, a writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and essays. Among other titles, she is the author of My Lesbian Husband, Body Geographic and Apocalypse, Darling. After moving to Minnesota from Illinois in the early 1980’s, she volunteered and l...
Creator:: Borich, Barrie Jean
Contributor:: Vecoli, Lisa
Created:: 2021-09-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2025-04-21

Description:: Beau Larsen is a white trans educator, scholar, and forensics coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Forensics at Macalester College, where they directed and coached the mock trial, ethics bowl, and debate teams. Prior to their work at Macalester, Larsen was a graduate student and debate coac...
Creator:: Larsen, Beau (interviewee)
Contributor:: Rodriguez, Maddie (interviewer); Schneiderman, Ruben (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager)
Created:: 2021-11-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-03-15

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Beth Jacobs Oral History Project.
Creator:: Weinberg, Bea
Created:: 1993-03-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Beth Jacob Oral History Project.
Creator:: Doneshefsky, Ben
Created:: 1995-03-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: Benjamin Hugus shares his experiences as an entrepreneur of a newer business, Ursa Minor Brewing, in the Lincoln Park Craft District of Duluth, Minnesota during the time of COVID-19. He says that in the early weeks of the pandemic business owners were faced with a choice of either quitting or adapting their business operations. He outlines many ...
Creator:: Hugus, Benjamin
Contributor:: Lundgren, Paul
Created:: 2020-09-10
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-10-30