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Ceyenne Doroshow Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Doroshow, Ceyenne, Mukerjee, Lucy Date: Feb. 25, 2022 Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender autobiographies, Transmisogynoir Subject: 96 West, Andre's, Ceyenne Doroshow, Cooking in Heels: A Memoir, Flawless Sabrina, Gays and Lesbians Living In A Transgender Society ( G.L.I.T.S.) Description: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence and transphobic language. -
Sophia Margeaux Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Margeaux, Sophia, Bliss, Tom Date: Mar. 18, 2022 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Bigender people, Crossdressing, Epilepsy, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ unhoused people Subject: Jon Winegarner, Sophia Margeaux Description: Sophia Margeaux was born Jon Winegarner in Hettinger, North Dakota in 1953 (Sophia continues to use both names in different contexts and uses he/she/they pronouns). After high school, Sophia moved ... -
Interview with Margaret Deirdre O'Hartigan
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: O'Hartigan, Margaret Deirdre Date: Apr. 6, 2022 Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Irish American Catholics, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ older people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transsexual people Subject: Filisa Vistima Foundation Description: An interview with Margaret Deirdre O'Hartigan, an Irish Catholic transsexual woman, transsexual health and rights activist, writer, and retired secretary and typesetter living in Portland, Oregon. ... -
Jessica Xavier Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Xavier, Jessica M., MacCarthy, Jack Date: Jul. 5, 2022 Topics: AIDS awareness, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA), It’s Time, America!, Jessica Xavier, Leslie Feinberg, March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Transgender Educational Association, Transgender Needs Assessment Survey (WTNAS) Description: Jessica Xavier was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1952. From age 7, she realized she was not a boy but struggled to find a label to define herself. At age 39, she began her medical transition. Jess... -
Karina Samala Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Samala, Karina, Valdez, Rain Date: Jul. 27, 2022 Topics: Asian transgender people, Filipinos, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender people of color, Transgender political activists Subject: Imperial Court, Jeffrey Prang, José Sarria, Karina Samala, The Closet Ball, West Hollywood Transgender Advisory Board Description: Karina Samala migrated to California from Manila, Philippines after finishing school, where she worked for 13 years as a senior engineer in an aerospace military company. After winning Closet Ball ... -
Dr. T.J. Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Dr. T.J. Date: Sep. 20, 2022 Topics: Armed Forces, Crossdressing, Gender expression, Non-binary people, Physicians, Transgender community Description: An interview with Dr. T.J. about their live and experiences. -
Trans Poetry as “Artivism”: An Interview with Rupert Raj
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Oct. 21, 2022 Topics: BIPOC, Poetry--Collections, Transgender activism, Transgender authors, Transgender community, Transgender poetry Description: An interview with trans activist and trailblazer Rupert Raj. In this interview, Raj discusses his international trans poetry anthology, Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual,... -
Earline Budd Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Budd, Earline, Mendy, Nix Date: Nov. 11, 2022 Topics: AIDS death and dying, AIDS education, Anti-transgender discrimination, Black transgender people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Trans women, Transgender rights Subject: Dee Curry, Earline Budd, Frank Kameny, Gay Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA), HIV Community Coalition (HCC), Inner City AIDS Network (ICAN) Description: Content Warning: This item contains homophobic language. -
Gage Spex Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Spex, Gage Date: Dec. 2, 2022 Topics: Art schools, Fashion, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ artists, Nightlife, Non-binary people, Transgender community Subject: Dreamhouse, Spectrum Description: Gage Spex discusses growing up in Western Massachusetts, where, at a young age, they fell in love with fashion through older movies, like those of Judy Garland. Gage later moved to San Francisco to... -
Tracee McDaniel Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: McDaniel, Tracee, Mukerjee, Lucy Date: Dec. 13, 2022 Topics: Black transgender people, Entertainers, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ visibility, Trans women, Transgender authors, Transgender autobiographies, Transgender political activists, Transgender rights Subject: Atlanta Citizens Review Board, Betty Couvertier, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Peanuts Disco, The Housing Atlanta Program (THAP), Tracee McDaniel, Trans Affairs Committee Description: Tracee McDaniel was born on January 20th 1967 in Sumter, South Carolina. At the age of 18, Tracee began performing as her alter ego Destiny (Your Mistress of Illusions), before moving to L.A. and s... -
Mikail Khan Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Khan, Mikail Date: Dec. 19, 2022 Topics: Family violence, Gender non-conforming identity, Language, QTPOC, Queer community, Sexual orientation, South Asian transgender people Description: An interview with Mikail Khan, a trans identifying person from Dhaka, Bangladesh. They talk about their life and experiences. -
Ari Brostoff Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Brostoff, Ari Date: Jan. 2, 2023 Topics: Jewish transgender people, Queer theory, Social advocacy, Transgender authors, Transgender community Subject: Beyond the Pale, Jewish Currents Description: Ari Brostoff is an author and editor at Jewish Currents magazine. In this interview, they recount reading Jewish historical fiction as a child growing up in California. After attending college on t... -
Sawyer DeVuyst Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: DeVuyst, Sawyer Date: Jan. 28, 2023 Topics: Agender identity, Faith, Hormone therapy (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people Description: An interview with Sawyer DeVuyst, a trans identifying person from New Jersey. -
Charley Burton Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Burton, Charley, Bliss, Tom Date: Feb. 10, 2023 Topics: Black transgender people, Electroshock therapy, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, Gender affirming surgery, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ people with substance use disorders, LGBTQ+ support groups, Segregation, Stealth (Transgender), Trans men, Transgender authors, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Alcoholics Anonymous, Black Trans Man Incorporated, Charley Burton, Morehouse College, The Boy Beneath My Skin: A Black Trans Man Living in the South, University of Virginia Hospital Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to sexual assault, child abuse, suicide, and transphobic language. -
Iman Le Caire Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Le Caire, Iman Date: Feb. 17, 2023 Topics: Artists, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Police harassment, QTPOC, Religion, Sexual violence, Trans women, Transfeminine people Description: An interview with Iman Le Caire a trans woman from Cairo, Egypt. Iman talks about her life and experiences.