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Description:: David Pearlman shares some of the experiences he has had and his thoughts about the state of the country during this time of COVID-19. He discusses the complex reality of finding trustworthy news during this pandemic and during a presidential election year. He outlines his chosen news sources during this polarized moment in our country and expla...
Creator:: Pearlman, David
Contributor:: Moxley, Brandi
Created:: 2020-10-11
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-10-30

Description:: Dean Spade is a white trans activist, writer and teacher. He founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. He is the author of the book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Po...
Creator:: Spade, Dean
Contributor:: Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project assistant)
Created:: 2019-11-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-19

Description:: Debbie Rose shares her experiences of living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She tells us about the news outlets she turns to for information and discusses the vast array of misinformation in the media. She tells us how her news viewing and research habits have changed over the months. Debbie explains how her health has been impacted s...
Creator:: Rose, Debbie
Contributor:: Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:: 2020-11-09
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-12-23

Description:: Interview 13 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Deb (Deborah) Anderson, an early participant in the North Country Women’s Coffeehouse in Duluth, Minnesota. Deb grew up in Richfield, Minnesota and describes herself as a late bloomer in terms of her coming out and defines herself as bisexual. Deb was ...
Creator:: Anderson, Deborah (Deb)
Contributor:: Vecoli, Lisa
Created:: 2019-10-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2025-04-21

Description:: DeBora Rachelle Bernick describes her experiences of life and work during COVID-19. She describes how the pandemic affected the creation and marketing of a new travel suitcase that she was designing. She says the process was interrupted and then significantly slowed down when she couldn’t travel to China where the product is being made. She expl...
Creator:: Bernick, DeBora Rachelle
Contributor:: Villiard, Moira
Created:: 2020-09-11
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-09-30

Description:: Debra DeBruin is Interim Director, Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, the co-leader of the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative, and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses the role of bioethics ...
Creator:: DeBruin, Debra (interviewee)
Contributor:: Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:: 2021-05-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-03-01

Description:: Debra Every shares her perspective as a resident of Two Harbors, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes how she first heard of the virus, and was laid-off for a short time in March of 2020. She describes how she saw visitors to Two Harbors buying essentials in the grocery store and leaving shelves bare. She shares stories of how h...
Creator:: Every, Debra
Contributor:: Wright, Brooke
Created:: 2020-08-30
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-10-30

Description:: In this interview, Debra Stone (1952 - ) begins by giving some family background as it relates to St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In doing so, she tells briefly the story of her Communist father in Minnesota and the interesting circumstances which lead to both sides of her family settling in the Twin Cities area. As an African American, she...
Creator:: Stone, Debra, (1952 - )
Contributor:: Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:: 2012-06-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-16

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24