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  1. Interview with Sayuri Hernandez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hernandez, Sayuri, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Sep. 12, 2016
    Topics: Addictions, Child abuse, Dating, Exercise, Feminism, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Racially mixed people, Spirituality, Stores, Retail, Substance abuse, White people, Women
    Subject: Loyola University, Sayuri Hernandez
    Description: Sayuri Hernandez describes herself as a Puerto Rican, German and Irish heterosexual female. In this oral history, Hernandez reflects upon her early experiments in “drag,” childhood abuse, addiction...
  2. Interview with Selena Meza

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Meza, Selena
    Date: Nov. 19, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Families, Feminists, Femmes, Ho Chunk women, Latinos, Mexican American women, Migration, Transgender people, Transphobia, Women's studies
    Subject: bell hooks, Liv Mickla, Planned Parenthood, Project Runway
    Description: Selena Meza identifies as a Mexican-American queer trans femme assigned male at birth. She uses they/them and she/her pronouns. She’s from Chicago, Illinois originally and then moved to Nekoosa, Wi...
  3. Interview with Vanessa Sheridan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sheridan, Vanessa
    Date: Jul. 12, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Families, Fundamentalism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Performing arts, Racism, Religions, Socioeconomic characteristics, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chaz Bono, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Crossing Over, HB2, Jerry Springer Show, Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Maury Povich, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Pulse Night Club, RuPaul, The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace, Virginia Prince, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
    Description: Vanessa Sheridan identifies as transgender and was assigned male at birth. She knew she was different from the age of 2 or 3 but didn’t understand what it meant at the time since she had no framewo...
  4. Interview with Yvonne Cook-Riley

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Cook-Riley, Yvonne, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jan. 7, 2020
    Topics: Crossdressers, Education, Identity politics, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ people in the military, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ veterans, Non-binary people, Shamanism
    Subject: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Yvonne Cook-Riley
    Description: Oral history with Yvonne Cook-Riley discussing spirituality, activism, and the military.
  5. J. Soto Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Soto, J., Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Oct. 20, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Artists, Arts, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gay community, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Language, LGBTQ+ relationships, Migration, Night life, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: J. Soto
    Description: J. Soto recounts his evolving understanding of gender and identity along his eastward migration across the United States. Born and raised in the Bay Area, J. attended graduate school in Chicago, IL...
  6. Jackson Reddy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Reddy, Jackson
    Date: May 29, 2019
    Topics: AIDS activists, Alcoholism, Anti-transgender violence, Artists, Black people, Buddhism, Childhood, Comedians, Coming out, Education, Family members, Fathers, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, Hormones, Internalized homophobia, Media, Music, Pronoun, Psychotherapy, Sexual abuse, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Writers
    Subject: Black Trans TV, Malcolm X, Marsha P. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Shayna Matteski, Soka Gakkai International, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Jackson Reddy reflects on their family dynamics and how these relationships shaped their growth. They also touch upon the role of trauma and the process of healing, especially in terms of self-care...
  7. Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 1, 2016 April 9

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UNC Charlotte Atkins Library, Special Collections and University Archives
    Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, Wright, Christina
    Date: Apr. 9, 2016
    Topics: Detransitioning, Gay community, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ veterans, Older transgender people, Retransitioning, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender people in the military, Transgender-owned businesses
    Subject: Imperial Court of San Francisco, Janice Covington Allison, Lavender Panthers
    Description: In this first in a series of interviews, Janice Covington, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses her formative years and her early adult life. She recal...
  8. Jennifer Pritzker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Pritzker, Jennifer, Funk, Mason
    Date: Nov. 11, 2021
    Topics: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, Israel-Arab War, 1973, LGBTQ+ people in the military, LGBTQ+ veterans, Public bathroom bills
    Subject: Barry Winchell, Calpernia Addams, Jennifer Pritzker
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  9. Joanne and Julie Nemecek Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Nemecek, Julie, Nemecek, Joanne
    Date: Jul. 17, 2017
    Topics: LGBTQ+ Baptists, Marriage, Transgender people
    Subject: Bethel College, Christine Jorgensen, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Joanne Nemecek, Julie Nemecek, Michigan Equality, PFLAG, Renee Richards, Roberts Wesleyan College, Soulforce, Spring Arbor University, Susan Stanton
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Joanne and Julie Nemecek, conducted by Mason Funk on July 17, 2017 in their home in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Julie is a proud grandmother, Presbyterian church elder, and publ...
  10. Juliana Moraes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Moraes, Juliana, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 18, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Dance, Discrimination, Education, Femininities, Hormones, Immigrants, Latinos, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Machismo, Mental health, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Juliana Moraes tells interviewer Sebastián Castro Niculescu about her family immigrating to New Jersey from Brazil, and how growing up as a dark-skinned gender non-confirming child has had lasting ...
  11. Lisa Oakley Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Oakley, Lisa, MacCarthy, Jack
    Date: Feb. 4, 2022
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Coming out, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Trans women, Transgender people in the military, Transgender wheelchair users
    Subject: Lisa Oakley
    Description: Lisa Oakley was born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. For as long as she could remember, Lisa felt that she should have been born a girl. Lisa entered into the military at age nineteen for four years,...
  12. Major Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Jan. 29, 1998
    Topics: Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Hormones, Lesbian community, Military, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Finocchio's Club
  13. Marlow Monique Dickson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Dickson, Marlow Monique
    Date: Jun. 19, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag performers, Female impersonators, Older transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Crystal LaBeija, Jewel Box Revue, Josephine Baker, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: OUTWORDS guest interviewer Zackary Drucker interviewed Marlow Monique Dickson in Chicago in 2021. In the 1960s, Marlow moved from Chicago to New York, performing in bars around Greenwich Village. S...
  14. 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...
  15. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Major, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Dec. 16, 2017
    Topics: Care, Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Law, Legal aid, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Stigmatisation, Transgender people, Transgender prostitution, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Angels for Care, Christine Jorgensen, Griffin Gracy Historical Retreat and Resource Center, Harry Benjamin, Major Griffin-Gracy, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, Tenderloin AIDs Resource Project, Trans Gender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
    Description: In this interview, Miss Major talks about the culture of transwomen sex workers in New York City and Chicago during the 1960's through 1980's as well as her care-work and advocacy during the rise o...