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  1. An Interview with Dr. Tiger Howard Devore, PhD

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Devore, Tiger Howard, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Feb. 7, 2011
    Topics: Chromosomes, Ethics, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Homosexuality, Intersex, Law, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Physicians, Psychology, Sexology, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Stereotypes, Surgery, Therapists, Transgender people
    Description: Dr. Tiger Howard Devore PhD, clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist, discusses how he works with people who are sexually different and has been advocating for their rights for 30 years. ...
  2. Barms Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Barms
    Date: May 17, 2019
    Topics: Anarchism, Anthropology, Anti-transgender violence, Art history, Autism spectrum disorders, Bars, Bisexual identity, Bisexuality, Childhood, Children, Christianity, Class struggle, Clubs, Coming out, Communism, Construction workers, Disabilities, Femininities, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender role, Gentrification, Hate speech, Homophobia, Internet, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marxism, Masculinities, Mental disorders, New Left, People with disabilities, Performance art, Pronoun, Religions, Sexuality, Socialism, Solidarity, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Red Bloom, Chris O'Feeley, Me Too Movement, Michael Bloomberg, Pratt Institute, Queer Workers Project, Rudy Guiliani, Sam Goody, True Scum
    Description: Barms is a construction worker apprentice and a communist. In this interview, they discuss the role of philosophy and abstract thinking for themselves and many trans people as a strategy of managin...
  3. Interview with Enzi Tanner

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Tanner, Enzi, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Dec. 12, 2015
    Topics: Black people, Coming out, Dating, Education, Families, Gay community, Health care, Hormones, Judaism, Men, Racism, Role models, Roman catholicism, Sexual reorientation, Social workers, Surgery, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Brown Boi Project, Enzi Tanner, Trans Youth Support Network
    Description: Enzi Tanner describes himself as a role model and mentor to younger men, a role that he’s been able to take on through his gender transition. In this oral history, Tanner speaks about his race, com...
  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. Interview with Ash (Ashley) Scott

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Scott, Ash (Ashley)
    Date: Oct. 29, 2015
    Topics: African American transgender people, Appearance, Bullying, Communication, Dating, Disabilities, Discrimination, Drag kings, Femininities, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Language, Masculinities, Military, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Schools, Surgery, Therapies
    Description: Ash Scott identifies as a black female to male trans guy who was assigned female at birth. He is an Air Force brat. He was born in California at the Castle Air Force Base. He also lived in Louisian...
  6. Interview with Awen Briem

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Briem, Awen
    Date: Dec. 28, 2015
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Communities, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Harassment, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, Language, LGBTQ+ partners, Masculinities, Politics, Religions, Schools, Sexuality, Social media, Suicide, Surgery, Therapies, Transgender people, Transphobia, Youth
    Subject: OutFront Minnesota
    Description: Awen Briem identifies as transgender and as male if he’s not out to them. He was assigned female at birth and grew up in Syracuse, New York. His family then moved to Des Moines, Iowa. He experience...
  7. Interview with Chloe Alexa Landry

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Landry, Chloe Alexa, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Oct. 22, 2015
    Topics: Educators, Family members, Lesbian identity, Marriage, MtFs, Photographers, Surgery, Veterans
    Subject: Society for the Second Self
    Description: In this oral history, Chloe Alexa Landry shares her experiences about growing up with an awareness of her gendered difference in Minneapolis, MN.
  8. Interview with Crispin Torres

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Torres, Crispin, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: May 27, 2016
    Topics: Coming out, Education, Educators, Gay community, Gay culture, Gay families, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Latinos, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Mexican Americans, Misogyny, Musicians, Political movements, Roman catholicism, Surgery, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Lambda Legal
    Description: Crispin Torres has been an LGBT advocate and worked to support LGBT people with national organizations for much of his professional career. In this oral history, Torres shares his personal story, f...
  9. Interview with Ejay Jack

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jack, Ejay, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Sep. 15, 2015
    Topics: FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Partners of transgender people, Polyamory, Reproductive health, Social workers, Surgery, Transgender people
    Subject: Ejay Jack, Red Door Clinic
    Description: Ejay Jack grew up in rural Pennsylvania. It was in college at Penn State University that he first began exploring his trans identity, identifying as genderqueer for a decade before taking testoster...
  10. Interview with Eli Clare

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Clare, Eli
    Date: Mar. 1, 2016
    Topics: Bullying, Cerebral palsy, Clinical medicine, Diagnosis, Disability studies, Employment, Gay community, Gender minorities, Gender realignment surgery, Lesbian community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Passing (Gender), People with disabilities, Public buildings--Restrooms, Rural areas, Small cities, Stonewall riots, Surgery, Working class, Writers
    Subject: Americans with Disabilities Act, Compton's Cafeteria Riots, Eli Clare, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
    Description: Eli Clare is a genderqueer disability advocate, writer and poet. In this oral history, Clare discusses how language gets re-claimed, taken up, or not; tensions in lesbian community around trans mas...
  11. Interview with Hunta Williams

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Williams, Hunta, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 18, 2016
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Coming out, Cooks, Deaf people, Families, FtMs, Health care, Hormones, Parents of transgender people, Police brutality, Surgery, Transgender people
    Subject: Hunta Williams
    Description: Hunta Williams is a deaf, black trans man. Williams grew up in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Minneapolis to attend culinary school. From a young age, he felt “different” than his peers, always playing ...
  12. Interview with Joe Ippolito

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Ippolito, Joe
    Date: Sep. 3, 2015
    Topics: Aging, Educators, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Heterosexuality, Hormones, Jews, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Roman catholicism, Surgery, Therapists, Transgender people
    Subject: Gender Reel, Joe Ippolito, Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Philadelphia| psychology
    Description: Joe Ippolito grew up in Florida in the 1970s. In this oral history, he shares some of his experiences building trans community: establishing the Gender Reel festival, chairing the Philadelphia Tran...
  13. Interview with Maxwell Poessnecker

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Poessnecker, Maxwell
    Date: Jul. 6, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Families, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Lesbian identity, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Pronoun, Separation, Sexual orientation, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Queer for Career
    Description: Maxwell Poessnecker is a 26-year-old queer trans masculine guy who was assigned female at birth. They use they/them pronouns, but predominately also use he/him pronouns depending on the space they ...
  14. Interview with Melinda Lee

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Lee, Melinda
    Date: Aug. 17, 2017
    Topics: Asian Americans, Dating, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Labeling, Language, LGBTI community, Politics, Pronoun, Rape, Schools, Sexual orientation, Social media, Surgery, Transphobia, Violence, White supremacy movements--United States
    Subject: Black and Pink, Khmer Rouge, Lobby Days, OutFront Minnesota, The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans, Trans Advisory and Action Team
    Description: Melinda Lee is a gender non-conforming, non-binary person. They were assigned female at birth, and they come from Cambodian, Chinese, and Vietnamese descent. They were born and raised in Long Beach...
  15. Interview with Monet (Kisha) Martin

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Martin, Monet (Kisha)
    Date: May 18, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Cannabis, Cross-cultural relationships, Drag queens, Families, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Rape, Sexual relationships, Sports, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Surgery, Transgender people, Violence
    Description: Monet (Kisha) Martin identifies as a trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She played sports growing up such as basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. Martin was kicked out of high school ...