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Akasha Barker Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Barker, Akasha, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro Date: Jul. 12, 2018 Topics: Adolescence, Androgyny, Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Beauty schools, Body image, Change of name, Education, Family members, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Isolation, LGBTI community, Mental health, Music, NGOs, Police brutality, Sexually abused LGBTQ+ children, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people Description: In this conversation with interviewer Sebastián Castro Niculescu, entertainer Akasha Barker (she/her/hers & they/them/theirs) discusses her journey with her gender identity during the HIV/AIDS epid... -
Alejandra Rodriguez Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Rodriguez, Alejandra, Oloya-Santiago, Tamara Date: Aug. 21, 2017 Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Families, Hormones, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Community Healthcare Network (CHN) Description: In this oral history, Alejandra Rodriguez speaks about immigrating from Mexico to the United States as a young adult to escape the intense discrimination they were suffering. Alejandra speaks about... -
Alyssa Pariah Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Pariah, Alyssa Date: Jan. 16, 2018 Topics: Activists, Appearance, Arrests, Bathrooms, Bullying, Capitalism, Child abuse, Childhood, Clothing, Communities, Detention, Direct action, Discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Occupy movement--New York (State)--New York, Police, Schools, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Alyssa Pariah, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Description: Alyssa Pariah recounts her difficult childhood in New Jersey, her involvement in trans women of color and sex worker communities in New York, and her radicalization as a revolutionary socialist. Sh... -
Amanda Hurtado Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Hurtado, Amanda, Oloya-Santiago, Tamara Date: Mar. 15, 2018 Topics: Acceptance, Allies, Cultures, Families, Gender identity, Immigrants, Language, MtFs, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence Subject: Make the Road Description: Amanda Hurtado speaks with Tamara Oyola Santiago about her life in Ecuador and the change she experienced upon coming to the United States. In this intimate conversation, Amanda shares her history,... -
Amaree Jael Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Jael, Amaree, Maya, Elliott Date: Aug. 15, 2016 Topics: Bigender people, Black people, Bullying, Homophobia, Isolation, Parents of transgender people, Poverty, Race identity, Racism, Sexuality, Slavery, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Verbal abuse, Visibility Subject: Amaree Jael Description: Amaree Jael recounts their life growing up in New York City as a transmasculine person of color. Beginning on 125th Street between 5th and Lennox, Amaree describes their early life in a changing ne... -
An Interview with Cheon Jae-woo (Chorus Boy)
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos, Jae-woo, Cheon Date: Jun. 2, 2010 Topics: Activists, Asian cultures, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Gay men, Gay men's choirs, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, Physicians, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: G-Voice Description: Physician Cheon Jae-woo ruminates on his experiences as a part of G-Voice, the first gay chorus ever to be formed in Korea. He says that the main object of the gay chorus is to communicate gay prid... -
An Interview with CHOI Hyun-sook and MONG Choi
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos, Hyun-sook, CHOI, Choi, MONG Date: Jun. 3, 2010 Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Asian cultures, Capitalism, Discrimination, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Politicians, Politics Description: CHOI Hyun-sook, a former political candidate, and MONG Choi discuss their experiences as sexual minority activists. They describe the policies they are trying to change and those they are trying to... -
An Interview with Diana Navarro
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Navarro, Diana, Motta, Carlos Date: Mar. 15, 2010 Topics: Abuse, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Change of name, Crossdressers, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Identification cards, Intersex, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Queer theory, Sex education, Sexual orientation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transsexual people Subject: Option for the Right to Do and the Duty to Do Corporation Description: Diana Navarro, the director of the Option for the Right to Do and the Duty to Do Corporation, discusses her experiences as a transgender women and sex worker in Bogotaá, Colombia. As an activist,... -
An Interview with Fernando Serrano
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Serrano, Fernando, Motta, Carlos Date: Mar. 18, 2010 Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Femininities, Gender identity, LGBTI rights, LGBTI rights policy, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Transgender people, Violence Subject: Planeta Paz Description: Anthropologist Fernando Serrano talks to Carlos Motta about his work with the LGBT Community Centers Strategy, which seeks the development of a series of services for that specific community and fo... -
An Interview with Hanmuji
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos Date: May 30, 2010 Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Identification cards, Intersex, LGBTI community, Malpractice, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Medical interventions, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Politics, Sexual orientation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Transsexualism Description: Hanmuji, an FTM trans man, discusses his experience as a trans person and the structures and policies surrounding the transgender community in Korea. -
An Interview with Hossein Alizadeh
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos, Alizadeh, Hossein Date: Feb. 18, 2011 Topics: Activists, Arrests, Crimes, Discrimination, Gender identity, Law, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Middle East, Sexual orientation Subject: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) Description: Hossein Alizadeh, the Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), discusses the persecution of LGBTI people in Iran thro... -
An Interview with Joshua Pimiento Montoya
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos, Montoya, Joshua Pimiento Date: Mar. 19, 2010 Topics: Activists, Higher education, Intersex, LGBTI community, Organisations, Physicians, Religions, Transsexualism Description: Joshua Pimiento Montoya, an anthropologist from the National University of Colombia, discusses his research in and activism surrounding the treatment of intersex individuals by the medical community. -
An Interview with Kenyon Farrow
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An Interview with Mara Viveros
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Viveros, Mara, Motta, Carlos Date: Mar. 17, 2010 Topics: Anthropology, Ethnic groups, Feminism, Gender, Research, Sexuality, Sociology, Travel Description: Mara Viveros begins her interview by saying, "my initial training was as an economist but I later became an anthropologist, I like to mention this because it also explains who I am, that is, a pers... -
An Interview with Ruin
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos Date: Jun. 3, 2010 Topics: Coming out, Gender role, MtFs, Sexuality, Stereotypes, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Description: Ruin begins this interview saying: "My name is Ruin and I usually introduce myself as an MTF transgender lesbian. I’m also a vegetarian and a cat lover. I started thinking about gender issues in 20... -
Anaïs Duplan Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Duplan, Anaïs Date: Jun. 18, 2019 Topics: Afro-caribbeans, Black people, Body image, Change of name, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Indeterminacy (Linguistics), Intimacy, LGBTQ+ poetry, Time perception, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Gennady Aygi, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus, Paul Celan, Take This Stallion, Terrance Hayes -
Armani (ArmaniDae) Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Armani Date: Nov. 29, 2021 Topics: Black transgender people, Family, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Sexual orientation, Transgender community Description: An interview with Amani, a trans man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Ash Stephens Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Ash Stephens Date: Apr. 19, 2019 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black people, Butches, Change of name, Childhood, Christianity, Education, Family members, Femininities, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Higher education, Lesbian culture, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Military, Older people, Police patrol--Surveillance operations, Politics, Pronoun, Religions, Social classes, Soft butches, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people Subject: Bible Belt, Black Hollywood, Brooklyn Bail Fund, Georgia Southern University, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, University of Illinois at Chicago Description: Ash recounts growing up in a southern Bible Belt community. He details his journey from Georgia to Chicago where he completed his higher-level education and met his “chosen family.” Ash is currentl... -
B. Hawk Snipes Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Snipes, B. Hawk Date: Mar. 28, 2019 Topics: Artists, Bars, Black people, Childhood, Cocaine, Drug abuse, Education, Femininities, Gay and lesbian youth, Gay community centers, Gay liberation, Gay pride, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hospitals, Housing, Jews, Latinos, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Neighborhood government, Police, Police raids, Prisons, Pronoun, Stonewall riots, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Unemployment, White people, Women, Youth, Youth organisations Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, Amanda Milan, Amy's Bread, Anderson Cooper, Bawdy Audie Josie, Center Lane, Chi-Chi's, Cole Cafe, Covenant House, Covenant House Rite of Passage (ROP), Fenced Out, Greenwich Village Youth Council (GYC), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Iris House, James Street Hotel, JD Melendez, John Cameron Mitchell, Kate Barnhart, March of Dimes, Michael Bloomberg, New Neutral Zone, New York Police Department (NYPD), Octavia St. Laurent, Operation Spotlight, Peter Green, Project Reach, Rosie Perez, Sets, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, The Garden Left Behind, Trans Health Conference, Trans in Action, Transy House, Wilson Cruz, Zendo's Description: B. Hawk Snipes discusses their growing in the Bronx, their time at the La Guardia High School of the Performing Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and eventually becoming an entertainer ... -
Bianey Garcia Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Garcia, Bianey Date: Jul. 13, 2017 Topics: Childhood, Coming out, Discrimination, Families, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Immigration, Immigration law, Imprisonment, Latin american cultures, Lawyers, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Racism, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence Subject: Bianey Garcia, Make the Road Description: Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities. Born in Veracruz, Mexico and ra... -
Brenda Holder Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Holder, Brenda, Keyes, Anna Date: Apr. 4, 2018 Topics: Drag balls, Drag community, Drag queens, Homelessness, Intolerance, Latinos, LGBTI community, Military, Role models, Transsexual people Subject: Dorian Corey, Paris Dupree, Pepper Labeija Description: Army veteran and drag queen Brenda Holder discusses finding community in the drag world through her journey as a Hispanic trans woman. Holder tells interviewer Anna Keyes of her relationships with ... -
Brigitte Jamilette Hernandez Martinez Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Hernandez Martinez, Brigitte Jamilette Date: Aug. 2, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Beauty operators, Discrimination, Education, Families, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Safer sex, Self-acceptance, Sexual abuse, Transgender people Description: Lorenzo Van Ness entrevista a Brigitte Jamilet Hernández Martínez sobre su vida, quien comparte detalles de su niñez y adolescencia que recalcan la importancia que tiene su familia, sobre todo sus ... -
Brycen Gaines Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Elle, Eve, Gaines, Brycen Date: Apr. 29, 2017 Topics: Colleges, Discrimination, FtMs, Gay-straight alliances, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, Racism, Therapies, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Work situation Subject: Brycen Gaines Description: In this brief interview, Brycen Gaines touches on a variety of topics, beginning with his first moment of awareness of his gender identity. He discusses discrimination, healthcare, family, and tran... -
Cameron Overton
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: House of History Creator: Date: Feb. 23, 2024 Topics: African American transgender people, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Coming out, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ religious people, Trans men Subject: Cameron Overton Description: An interview with Dr. Cameron Overton. Cameron Overton is a transgender man who works as a pastor at the Zao MKE Church. In the interview, Overton discusses living in Milwaukee and coming out, as w... -
Capri Kasai Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Kasai, Capri Date: Mar. 19, 2019 Topics: Black people, Body image, Child abuse, Childhood, Climatic changes, Conservatism, Disaster medicine, Divorce, Environmental justice, Environmentalism, Femininities, Film, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Health care, Homophobia, Internet, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, Liberalism, Masculinities, Military, Misogyny, Moving, Household, Music, Politics, Polygamy, Public health, Queer theory, Racism, Religions, Skinheads, Southern States, Visibility, Writers Description: Capri recounts their childhood in a military family and the resulting relocations that their family underwent. They address family dynamics that continue to affect their inner monologue and relatio...