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  1. Tuesday Smillie Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Smille, Tuesday
    Date: Oct. 11, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Animal rights activists, Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Family members, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visual arts, Zines
    Subject: Adele Carpenter, Ali Forney Center, Kirsten Rossi, Michelle O'Brien, Sergio Rodriguez, Silence of the Lambs, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Ursula K. Le Guin, Wangechi Mutu
    Description: (Photo of Tuesday and interviewer Michelle). Tuesday Smillie is a visual artist whose work grapples with power and violence. In this interview, Tuesday recounts her coming out in a radical queer yo...
  2. Kate Bornstein Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Bornstein, Kate
    Date: Nov. 4, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Actors, Buddhism, Cancer, Chat rooms, Childhood, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crowdsourcing, Cults, Death and dying, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Fundraising, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health care, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Overweight people, Postmodernism, Religions, Scientology, SM, Suicide, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, World war II, Wrestling, Writers, Youth
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Thousand and One Ways to Live Without Working, America Online (AOL), B'hai, Barbara Carrellas, Christine Jorgensen, Church of Scientology, Gazebo, Gender Just for the Fun of it: Compassionate Gender Strategies for Divisive Times, Gender Outlaw, Hello Cruel World, I Am Cait, Jamison Green, Laura Vogel, Lee Sullivan, On Our Backs, Power Surge, Tuli Kupferberg, We Croak
    Description: Kate Bornstein discusses her life as a writer and actor. Moving between growing up in a Jewish family on the New Jersey shore, studying acting in school, joining the Church of Scientology, finding ...
  3. Imani Henry Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Henry, Imani
    Date: Mar. 8, 2019
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Arrests, Black people, Christianity, Cults, Discrimination, Gay pride, Gender minorities, Middle class, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Religions, School facilities, Slavery, Social media, Street violence, Transgender people, Violence, Working class, Youth
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Student Organization, Boston Tech, Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United, Emerson College, English High, Equality for Flatbush, ICE, James Dobson, Keith Kyler, Ken Livingston, Kimani Grey, Latin Academy, Latin Boston, Malcolm X, National School Walkout Day, Patrick Dorsman, Peoples Monday, Rodney King, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell, Trish Marinara, University of Massachusetts - Lowell (UMass Lowell)
  4. Interview with Andrea Abi-Karam

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Abi-Karam, Andrea
    Date: Jun. 21, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Anti-fascism, Body image, Capitalism, Childhood, Counterculture, Depression, Divorce, Family members, Gender minorities, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Insurance, LGBTQ+ poetry, Masculinities, Neofascism, Oppression, Physicians, Prisons, Psychiatrists, Religions, Suburbs, Surgery, Tattoos, Terrorism, Transgender people, Zines
    Subject: Ana Mendieta, Elizabeth Bishop, Ghost Ship Fire, GQ, Maryanne Moore, Mills College, New York Police Department (NYPD), Nighboat Books, Sister Spit, Spraytan, Sylvia Plath, They/Them
  5. Trans Oral History: Meeting Lou Sullivan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Aug. 27, 2011
    Topics: Activists, FtMs, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Passing (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: East Coast FtM Group, Lou Sullivan
    Description: Ben Power has been a transgender activist and community historian for more than three decades. He describes the first time he met another FTM--Lou Sullivan, the founder of FTM international--and ho...
  6. IFGE Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 2/3 (Fall/Winter, 1998)

     
    Collection: International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hawley, Mykael
    Date: Autumn 1998
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Books, Christianity, Conferences, Crossdressing, Drug abuse, Employment discrimination, Employment policies, FtMs, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, Liberation movements, Organisations, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transphobia, Transsexualism
    Subject: American Airlines, Metropolitan Community Church, Rita Hester, Transgender Tapestry, Victoria S. Kolakowski
  7. Chase Strangio Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Strangio, Chase, O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Oct. 12, 2018
    Topics: Activists, Gender identity, Imprisonment, Judaism, Law, Lawyers, Legal process, LGBTQ+ movement, Transgender people
    Subject: Chelsea Manning
    Description: Chase Strangio discusses their work as a leading LGBTQ legal advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), including their representation of and connection to well-known former political...
  8. The Transgenderist (January-February 1992)

     
    Collection: Upstate New York Newsletters
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1992 to Feb. 1992
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Appearance, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gatherings, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Police brutality, Sexual orientation, Stereotypes, Support groups, Transgender people, Transsexual people
  9. The Transgenderist (February, 1996)

     
    Collection: Upstate New York Newsletters
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 1996
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Change of name, Crossdressers, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Gatherings, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ partners, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Sexuality, Social activities clubs, Support groups, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, FTM Conference of the Americas, Gabrielle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Phyllis Randolph Frye, Virginia Prince
  10. Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985: A Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
    Creator: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
    Date: Aug. 1992
    Topics: Abortion, Activists, African-americans, Anglicanism, Civil rights, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Equal rights amendments--United States, Gender identity, Genderism, Human rights, Sex discrimination, Sexism, Women's movement, Women's rights
    Subject: Eleanor Roosevelt, Pauli Murray
    Description: The collection documents many aspects of Murray's professional and unpaid work, as well as some areas of Murray's personal life. Information about areas in which the professional and personal aspec...
  11. Finding Aid to the Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien Personal Collection

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Ben
    Date: Mar. 12, 2018
    Topics: Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.), Demonstrations, Gay pride parades, Intimate partner violence, MtFs, Pageants, Printed ephemera, Transgender people
    Subject: Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, Miss Trans America Pageant, Miss Trans New England Pageant, Miss Trans Northampton Pageant, New England Transgender Pride March
  12. Memory Circle: Remembering Bryn Kelly

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Scholl, Zachary, Barton, Joss, Lewis, AJ, Kerr, Theodore, Clark, Naomi, Liederman, Katie, Crandall, Maxe, Parker, Chris, Cage, Diana, Shulman, Sarah, Novack, Rebecca, Buffalo Trace
    Date: Aug. 20, 2016
    Topics: Activists, AIDS phobia, Artists, Blogs, Christianity, Colleges, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Hospitals, Isolation, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Music groups, Night life, Self-help, Smoking, Solidarity, Suicide, Tarot, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Bryn Kelly, Lambda Literary Retreat, Testo Junkie
    Description: Story sharers include: Katie Liederman, Diana Cage, Maxe Crandall, Chris Parker, Naomi Clark, Buffalo Trace, AJ Lewis, Zachary Scholl, Rebecca Novack, Joss Barton, Sarah Shulman / / Friends of prol...
  13. Luce Lincoln Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Lincoln, Luce
    Date: Jul. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Appearance, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, Film, Gender diversity, Immigrant youth, LGBTI community, Passing (Gender), Schools, Self-acceptance, Transgender people, Travel, Youth organisations
    Subject: Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Luce Lincoln
    Description: Luce Lincoln discusses the identity clashes of his white and Philippine lineages. Learning more about his Philippine culture, and Philippine gender expression, expanded his self-understanding and m...
  14. Jamie Bauer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Bauer, Jamie
    Date: Jun. 5, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Age, Childhood, Civil rights, Clothing, Coming out, Dating, Demonstrations, Ethnic groups, FtMs, Gay rights, Gender diversity, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Lesbian community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Liberation movements, Politics, Racism, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Therapists, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Work situation
    Subject: ACT UP, Anita Bryant, Jamie Bauer, Women's Pentagon Action
    Description: Jamie Bauer recounts their childhood and adolescence growing up in New York City’s Stuyvesant Town, resisting family pressure to conform to normative gender expressions and discovering butch femme ...
  15. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (November 10 & 17, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Nov. 10, 1987 to Nov. 17, 1987
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Communities, Crossdressers, Demonstrations, FtMs, Gay liberation, HIV/AIDS, Leather community, Letters, LGBTQ+ lovers, Liberation movements, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Self-image, SM, Transgender people
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, FTM Newsletter, Jesse Jackson, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library