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  1. Anna Travers Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Hormone therapy, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Anna Travers, Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Rainbow Health Network, Shelbourne Health Clinic
  2. Cheri DiNovo Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Clergy, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Politics, Psychiatry, Sexual reorientation, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Cheri DiNovo, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Toby's Law
  3. Greta Bauer Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Courts, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Insurance, Law, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Oral History with Greta Bauer, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/Summer ...
  4. Interview with Aaron Devor

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Devor, Aaron, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jun. 17, 2020
    Topics: Education, Feminism, Gender identity, Gender non-conforming identity, Gender studies, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Justice, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ archives, LGBTQ+ communities, Prisons, Research, Social advocacy, Transgender activism, Transgender archives, Transgender studies, Women's movement
    Subject: Aaron Devor, MTHF, Standards of Care, University of Victoria, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Oral history with Aaron Devor discussing his work in academia, activism, and archives.
  5. Interview with barbara findlay

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: findlay, barbara, Taylor, Evan
    Date: May 20, 2020
    Topics: Human rights, Law, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Queer rights, Transgender rights
    Subject: barbara findlay, Kimberly Nixon, Synthia Kavanagh
    Description: Oral history with barbara findlay discussing her work with the queer community as a lawyer and activist.
  6. Interview with David Harrison

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Harrison, David, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jan. 27, 2020
    Topics: Identity politics, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art, Photography, Transgender people
    Description: Oral history with David Harrison discussing his work as an actor, writer, and activist.
  7. Interview with Diana LaMonte

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: LaMonte, Diana, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Feb. 14, 2020
    Topics: Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Celibacy, Feminism, Gender affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ suicide, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Sex (Act), Sex work, Substance abuse, Trans women
    Subject: Association of Canadian Transsexuals (ACT), CHAT, Diana Lamonte
    Description: Oral history with Diana LaMonte discussing her transition, activism, and life story. Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content assault and self-harm.
  8. Interview with Miqqi Alicia/Michael Gilbert

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Alicia, Miqqi, Gilbert, Michael, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jan. 6, 2020
    Topics: Crossdressers, Degrees, Academic, Drag, Gender expression, Gender identity, Internet, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ relationships
    Subject: Fantasia Fair, Tapestry Magazine, York University
    Description: Oral history with Michael Gilbert aka Miqqi Alicia discussing activism, gender, and academia.
  9. Interview with Nicki Ward

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ward, Niki, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jan. 27, 2020
    Topics: Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Identification cards, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ graphic novels, LGBTQ+ memorials, Police, Politicians, Trans marches, Transgender activism
    Subject: Bill C-16, Bill C-389, Nicki Ward, Toronto Trans March
    Description: Oral history with Niki Ward discussing her political activism and career as well as her role in organizing the Toronto Trans March.
  10. Kay Gabriel Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Gabriel, Kay
    Date: Jun. 4, 2019
    Topics: Anarchism, Anarchists, Arab Spring, 2010-, Capitalism, Childhood, Christianity, Class struggle, Classicists, Communism, Crossdressing, Eating disorders, Jews, LGBTQ+ poetry, Modernism, MtFs, Poets, Self-mutilation, Therapists, Transitioning (Gender), Zionism
    Subject: Euripides, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Occupy Wallstreet
    Description: Kay Grabriel discusses studying critical theory and literature, her radicalization through Occupy Wall Street and becoming a communist, and her writing as a poet. Kay grew up in a left Jewish famil...
  11. Kimberly Nixon Full Interview (Audio Only)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Nixon, Kimberly, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jun. 29, 2020
    Topics: Air pilots, Human rights, Law, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ community centers, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Trans women, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: Oral history with Kimberly Nixon discussing her work as a pilot and the legal cases she pursued. Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to non-consensual sexual a...
  12. Martine Stonehouse Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Human rights, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Martine Stonehouse
  13. Nick Mule Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, Ki Namaste, Nick Mule, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rainbow Health Network
  14. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Apr. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Black power, Butches, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic relations, Gender role, Lesbian culture, Lesbian separatism, Migration, Oral history, Popular culture, Soft butches, Transphobia
    Subject: Lesbian Organization of Toronto
  15. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 2 (16 June 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Jun. 16, 2017
    Topics: Alcoholism, Bars, Butches, Gay pride, Hate crimes, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mardi gras, MtFs, Older transgender people, Oral history, Police, Police brutality--United States, Soft butches, Volunteering
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Club Manhattan, Lesbian Organization of Toronto, Lezlie Lee Kam, LOOT, Proud and Visible Coalition, Soca, The Rose, World Majority Lesbians
    Description: Lezlie Lee Kam is a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trin...