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- Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Phase 1 (173)
- Gender Affirming Care (124)
- Family Relationships (123)
- Midwest (United States) (108)
- White (88)
- Friendship and Community (86)
- Work (85)
- Race (83)
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- Education (75)
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- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Ty Yule is a white trans man. In life, Yule has spent time in the Midwest (in Iowa and Minnesota) and in California (in Apple Valley and San Francisco). In this interview, Yule touches upon topics such as passing and adversity, coalition building, gay marriage, and assimilation. He also shares his experiences with queer organizing and activism i...
- Creator:
- Yule, Ty
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-08-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Elliot Winter is a Korean male who grew up in Georgia but also spent time in Ohio, California, and New Jersey. In this interview, Winter talks at length about participating in online trans communities and chat rooms such as Laura's Playground and Youtube. He also talks about his family relationships, recovery, race in the South, and encounters w...
- Creator:
- Winter, Elliot
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-06-08
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Raquel Willis is a Black trans woman from Augsuta, Georgia. At the time of this interview Willis was living in Oakland, CA. She is a writer, activist, and media maker, and, starting in 2018, the Executive Editor of Out Magazine. Prior to her work at Out magazine, Willis received a Soros Equity Fellowship to start the Black Trans Circles at the T...
- Creator:
- Willis, Raquel
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-06-07
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Toni-Michelle Williams is a Black woman of trans experience who has spent time in Georgia and Norfolk, Virginia. In this interview, Williams touches upon topics such as drag, family relationships, loving Black men, silencing, and oppression. She also talks about her past work in HIV prevention. At the time of this oral history she was working fo...
- Creator:
- Williams, Toni-Michelle
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-06-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Hunta Williams is a Black trans man from New York. At the time of this interview, Williams was living in Minnesota. In this oral history Williams discusses his early childhood, family members, and involvement with deaf communities. Williams also shares his thoughts on coming out, sexuality, isolation, his encounters with law enforcement, police ...
- Creator:
- Williams, Hunta
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-07-18
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Stef Wilenchek is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Georgia and Ohio. At the time of this oral history, Wilenchek was living in Minneapolis and working at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Wilenchek speaks at length about their childhood, growing up in the deep South, race and racism, family relationships, coming out, and...
- Creator:
- Wilenchek, Stef
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-09-11
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Alonzo Wesley is a Black transgender man from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Wesley was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Wesley reflects on his experiences living in Minneapolis. Wesley describes what masculinity, family, and community mean to him. He also touches upon coming out, drag, gay bars, disability, encounters wit...
- Creator:
- Wesley, Alonzo
- 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:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed in private beginning at the age of 12 or 13 since she wasn’t comfortable sharing it. Since she was young, she recognized that she wanted to be a girl, ...
- Creator:
- Wedin, Isabelle
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-31
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Lou Weaver is a white trans man. At the time of the interview Weaver was working for Equality Texas. He discusses his childhood, his experience doing drag, and finding a community in Houston. He explains that how his white privilege and trans masculinity privilege manifest in different situations. He discusses training police officers on trans i...
- Creator:
- Weaver, Lou
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-12-09
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Marcus Waterbury is a white transgender man raised in Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Waterbury was working as a wealth advisor based out of the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Waterbury speaks at length about his childhood experiences with gender, his family relationships, and dating as a straight man. He also touches upon his enco...
- Creator:
- Waterbury, Marcus
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-01-08
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- CJ is a mixed Native American and white trans man from Grand Forks, North Dakota. At the time of the interview they were a freshman at UND Grand Forks. They discuss how their first exposure to thinking about gender was by having a genderfluid partner in high school, and then later seeing a trans speaker talk about their transition made them real...
- Creator:
- Vondal, CJ
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-15
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Quinn Villagomez, also nicknamed Shimmer, is a biracial Hispanic female based in Minnesota. In this interview Villagomez talks about the field of radio and broadcasting, including her work co-hosting Fresh Fruit on KFAI Radio (Minneapolis). Villagomez also discusses her experiences in the drag community, cultivating self-confidence, her upbringi...
- Creator:
- Villagomez, Quinn
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-09-17
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Meredith Vezina is a white trans woman who was born in Berlin, NH and grew up in Long Island is based, at the time of this interview, in San Diego, CA. In this oral history she describes coming to terms with her gender identity in the 1960s and 1970s as well as her experiences with medical transition in that era, specifically at the gender clini...
- Creator:
- Vezina, Meredith
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-01-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Catalina Velasquez is a Colombian transgender goddess. At the time of this interview, Velasquez was a political consultant based out of Washington DC. She speaks at length about topics including self-love, feminisms and feminist analysis, xenophobia/nativism, and systems of oppression. She also touches upon her involvement with organizations suc...
- Creator:
- Velasquez, Catalina
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-12-09
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Haylee Veazey is a white trans woman from Farmington New Mexico. She discusses growing up in a small conservative and religious town, and her struggles with herself and her family. She discusses her experience in medical school and transition in the workplace, and how differently she was treated in the medical community when she presented as a m...
- Creator:
- Veazey, Haylee
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-12-01
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Nicole Vanderheiden is a white woman from Colorado and Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Vanderheiden worked in the Social Security office. In this oral history she touches upon her experiences in the Air Force; SPART*A, a group of transgender people who serve or have served in the United States Armed Forces; and her encounters with law ...
- Creator:
- Vanderheiden, Nicole
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-05-17
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Tamara Urban is a white female from South Dakota who founded TransAction South Dakota, Inc. At the time of this interview, Urban was retired. In this oral history she talks at length about being intersex. She also touches upon the cultural geography of Sioux Falls, her experience with employment discrimination, and care work within the trans com...
- Creator:
- Urban, Tamara
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-01-22
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Crispin Torres is a Latino trans masculine person. At the time of this oral history, Torres was working for Lambda Legal. In this oral history, Torres speaks at length about his childhood, coming out, being a musician, family relationships, chosen family, religion, racism, encounters with healthcare, and the shifts he's seen in transgender polit...
- Creator:
- Torres, Crispin
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Carter Thurmond is a white trans dyke from Louisiana. At the time of this oral history, Thurmond was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Thurmond touches upon their childhood, community building, coming out to family, their gender and sexual evolution, their relationship experiences, combating heteronormativity, and gender...
- Creator:
- Thurmond, Carter
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-08-27
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a white woman from Long Island. They both discuss their childhoods, the realizations that they were transgender, and how their wives supported them with...
- Creator:
- Taylor, June
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-31
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Alyssandra Taylor is a Black trans woman or sometimes a trans feminine nonbinary person from Boston. She discusses coming out as gay at a young age, and being kicked out when she came out as trans. She discusses her acting work with True Colors and Theater Offensive in Boston, and acting in Charm at Mixed Blood Theater. She explains why she is s...
- Creator:
- Taylor, Alyssandra
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-05-14
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Enzi Tanner is a Black intentional male raised in Missouri. At the time of this interview, Tanner was doing social work based out of Minneapolis. In this oral history, Tanner speaks at length about mentorship and working with youth, Judaism, his family, racism, masculinity, ex-gay, and his encounters with law enforcement. He also touches upon th...
- Creator:
- Tanner, Enzi
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-12-12
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Denise Sudbeck is a white trans woman from Maine. At the time of this interview, she was in school writing a dissertation on queer theology. In life she also was a member of the United States Navy; a police chaplain in Alaska; and also worked as an American Baptist pastor for churches in Maine, Minnesota, and Alaska. In this oral history Sudbeck...
- Creator:
- Sudbeck, Denise
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-01-15
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Valerie Spencer is a Black woman (trans) from LA. At the time of the interview, she was working on a Masters in Social Work at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. In the interview, she discusses her difficult relationship with her father growing up, and how supportive her mother has always been. She discusses what it was like in the 1980s and 1990s ...
- Creator:
- Spencer, Valerie
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-10-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Katie Spencer is a white cisgender woman who grew up in Farmington, Missouri. At the time of this oral history, Spencer was living in Minnesota and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality. In this oral history, Spencer speaks at length about her childhood, her time in college, and her experiences with femininity. Spen...
- Creator:
- Spencer, Dr. Katie
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-02-29
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Marlene Somers is a white MTF trannssexual person from South Minneapolis. At the time of this interview, Somers was retired. In this oral history, Somers speaks at length about living two lives at once, Christine Jorgensen, Caitlyn Jenner, and her family relationships. She also touches upon encounters with healthcare, Ray Blanchard's theory of a...
- Creator:
- Somers, Marlene
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-09-23
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Tygra Slarii is a Black trans woman from Omaha and Arizona. She discusses her family relationships, talks about her thoughts on the trans community here versus the community in Omaha. She also discusses her different experiences with theater and drag, and the relationship between the drag community and the trans community.
- Creator:
- Slarii, Tygra
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-01-26
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Nemo Siqueiros is a Native Indigenous/Mexica/Purepecha trans male from Iowa who uses he and they. Nemo explains their process of naming, experiences being bullied as a child, and how autism shapes the way they see the world. Nemo talks about having a supportive mom, how his race and gender identity influence each other. They were in The Laramie ...
- Creator:
- Siqueiros, Nemo
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-14
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white man. Shapiro also talks about the importance of queer community, work in queer activism, including starting a GLBT youth organization called Prism in C...
- Creator:
- Shapiro, Gradylee
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-01-17
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Faye Seidler is a white trans woman based out of North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Seidler was a writer, an educator, and a cook. In this oral history she speaks at length about her coming out process as well as her encounters with healthcare and healthcare providers. She also touches upon her experiences with passing privilege, her f...
- Creator:
- Seidler, Faye
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-15
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Ash Scott is a Blackfoot Indian/Irish/African American trans guy living in Minneapolis. He discusses his early life, family relationships, and being in the army when he identified as a lesbian during the time of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. He talks about his service, getting injured in Iraq, his life after serving, mental health, and navigating health...
- Creator:
- Scott, Ash (Ashley)
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-10-29
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Rachel Schroeder is white trans woman from Burnsville, Minnesota. She discusses how her desire and her decision to transition impacted her relationships, and the importance of being correctly gendered. She talks about trans visibility, including Caitlyn Jenner, and how having a trans community proved vital to support her during her transition.
- Creator:
- Schroeder, Rachel
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-02-23
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Oliver Schminkey is a white non-binary transgender person from Pine City, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Schminkey was living in Saint Paul attending Macalester College. In this oral history, Schminkey speaks about being a student, dating, growing up in a rural area, polyamory, their family relationships, and finding work as a non-bin...
- Creator:
- Schminkey, Oliver
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-08-18
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- 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:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Naiymah Ariana Sanchez is a Afro-Latina transgender female from the Bronx and Philadelphia. At the time of this oral history, Sanchez worked as the Trans Justice Coordinator with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-PA). In this interview she discusses her childhood experiences with gender, as well as her mentors. Sanchez also touches upon t...
- Creator:
- Sanchez, Naiymah
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-01-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Destinee Salinas is a Hispanic female from Indiana. She talks about her experiences growing up, doing drag, and some of the obstacles she has faced as a trans woman. She also discusses relationships, self-care, and her work at Hennepin County Medical Center.
- Creator:
- Salinas, Destinee
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-09-28
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Gavin Rouille is a white queer male from Burlington, Vermont. He talks about his art and how his artmaking process has evolved over time. He also discusses how his relationships have changed since his transition.
- Creator:
- Rouille, Gavin
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-10-22
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Geena Rocero is a Filipino trans woman and supermodel from Makati City in the Philippines. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, her career as a model and founder of the production company Gender Proud, and her perspective of Filipino history and culture. Specifically, Rocero talks at length about the history and visibilit...
- Creator:
- Rocero, Geena
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-11-16
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
