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  1. Interview with Raquel Willis

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Willis, Raquel
    Date: Jun. 7, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Art, Assigned gender, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Coming out, Counseling, Dating, Drag, Drag kings, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, LGBTQ+ activism, Love, Masculinities, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Queer people, Race, Religions, Religious texts, Role behavior, Sex, Sexism, Social movements, Southern States, Sports, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: Black Girl Dangerous, RuPaul, Trans Advocacy Organization, Transgender Law Center, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Raquel Willis is a Black trans woman from Augusta, Georgia. At the time of this interview Willis was living in Oakland, CA. She is a writer, activist, and media maker, and, starting in 2018, the Ex...
  2. Interview with Wahira LaBelle

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: LaBelle, Wahira
    Date: Dec. 7, 2020
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ migrants, Queer people, Transfeminine people, Women, Somali
    Subject: Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP), Black Trans Migrants United (BTMU)
    Description: An interview with Wahira LaBelle, a trans fem queer of Somali descent, community organizer, migrant justice activist, and advocate based in California. At the time of this interview, she was the Ba...