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Description:: Agaiotupu Viena is a fa'afafine and trans woman from Amerika Samoa, educator, advocate, and community organizer based in the Seattle area. At the time of these interviews, she was Program Director for TRANSform Culture, an education and advocacy program of the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-area philanthropic organization prioritizing movements led...
Creator:: Viena, Agaiotupu (interviewee)
Contributor:: Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager); Chamness, Daria (transcriber)
Created:: 2020-07-24; 2020-08-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-02-22

Description:: Aidan Key is a white gender fluid trans man raised in the United States. At the time of this interview, Key was living and working in Washington as an educator and an organizer. In this oral history, Key speaks about coming out in lesbian, dyke, and leather communities as well as finding trans community in his thirties. Key also touches upon his...
Creator:: Key, Aidan
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-01-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Radical History Project.
Creator:: Rubinger, Al; Rubinger, Dorothy
Created:: 1988-06-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: In this interview, Alan Stiegler gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, World War II veteran and legal practitioner. He was born in 1925 and raised in Minneapolis. His family background in is Russia and he describes some of their stories that involve working in a sweatshop in St. Paul and homesteading in North Dakota. Stiegler desc...
Creator:: Stiegler, Alan, 1925-?
Contributor:: Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:: 2009-06-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

Description:: Aldita Gallardo is a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and as a board member at El/La Para Translatinas, a community center, public health, and anti-viol...
Creator:: Gallardo, Aldita (interviewee)
Contributor:: Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project assistant)
Created:: 2020-01-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2021-03-17

Description:: Alexander Martin shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about being unemployed for six weeks and the effects on his personal life. He is open about the combined challenges of staying home, having fewer social interactions, and the feeling of having less purpose while being laid off from work. He shares how this h...
Creator:: Martin, Alexander
Contributor:: Moxley, Brandi
Created:: 2020-08-23
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-09-30

Description:: Topics include: Survivor accounts of Holodomor famine-genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine; local 50th and 80th anniversary commemorations; Harvest of Despair; post-WWII Ukrainian diaspora.
Creator:: Poletz, Alexander
Contributor:: Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Zielyk, Marta; Ukrainian American Community Center
Created:: 2019-05-21; 2019-07-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2019-12-06

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Nahum Kipnis Project.
Creator:: Tulchinsky, Alexander
Created:: 1998-11-29 - 1999-04-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Creator:: Sonenfeld, Alexandra
Contributor:: Moran, Jacqueline
Created:: 1980
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-22

Description:: Alex Griffin is a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbringing and education on her politics, her first forays into, experiences within, and thoughts on trans politics, community organizing, and direct action, her experienc...
Creator:: Griffin, Alex (interviewee)
Contributor:: Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project assistant)
Created:: 2020-10-02
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2021-09-29