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  1. Fainan Lakha Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lakha, Fainan, Maya, Elliott
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Coming out, Communities, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Islam, Liberation movements, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Fainan Lakha, Laverne Cox
    Description: Fainan Lakha is a student at Columbia majoring in Comparative Literature and Society. She grew up in a Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim community in Seattle and became involved in the Oneness University a...
  2. Interview with Alex Lee

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Lee, Alex
    Date: Nov. 17, 2019
    Topics: Asian American transgender people, Legal services, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, Police harassment, Prisoners--Civil rights, Social justice, Transgender activism, Transgender people, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC), TransAction
    Description: An interview with Alexander Li-Hua Lee, an Asian American trans masculine activist and attorney from Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the Project Director for the Grantmak...
  3. Interview with Kiyomi Fujikawa

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Fujikawa, Kiyomi
    Date: Jan. 15, 2020
    Topics: BIPOC, Intersectionality, Multiracial transgender people, Queer people, Transfeminine people, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transgender youth
    Subject: Fund for Trans Generations, Third Wave Fund
    Description: An interview with Kiyomi Fujikawa, a mixed-race queer trans femme and activist based in Seattle. At the time of this interview, she served as Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, an activist philanthrop...
  4. Interview with Lee Livingston Perine

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Perine, Lee Livingston
    Date: Dec. 22, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Butch-femme relationships, Children, Coming out, Community life, Divorce, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gay identity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Marriage, Masculinities, Misogyny, Race, Racism, Sexuality, Social privilege, Sports, Suicide, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Twins, Work
    Subject: Donald Trump, Prince, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Lee Levingston Perine is a Black genderqueer person from St. Louis, Missouri. They talk about their early life, college, and grad school, as well as having a very supportive family. They talk at le...
  5. Interview with Ola Osaze

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Osaze, Ola
    Date: Nov. 21, 2019
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black queer people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ migrants, LGBTQ+ people of color, Queer authors, Transgender people, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP), Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP), Queers for Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), Uhuru Wazobia
    Description: An interview with Ola Osifo Osaze, a transmasculine queer of Edo and Yoruba descent. At the time of this interview, Osaze was the Director for the Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP) and had been a...
  6. Interview with Rickke Mananzala

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mananzala, Rickke
    Date: Nov. 19, 2019
    Topics: BIPOC, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ youth, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender youth
    Subject: Borealis Philanthropy, FIERCE, Fund for Trans Generations
    Description: An interview with Rickke Mananzala, a trans activist and community organizer. At the time of this interview, he was the Vice President for Strategy & Programs with Borealis Philanthropy, working wi...
  7. Jules Skloot Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Skloot, Jules, Dicken, Matthew
    Date: Dec. 13, 2018
    Topics: Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Educators, Genderfluid identity, Passing (Gender), Transgender people
    Subject: Leslie Feinberg
    Description: Jules Skloot talks to Matthew Dicken about his childhood and development of his gender identity, particularly his experiences with crossdressing and passing as a male at an early age. Over time, Sk...
  8. 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 ...
  9. Marsha Botzer Full Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Botzer, Marsha, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Feb. 19, 2020
    Topics: Community life, Labor movement, LGBTQ+ activism, Medical care, Self-help groups, Transgender activism, Transgender people
    Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center
    Description: Oral history with Marsha Botzer. Discussion of the founding of Ingersoll Gender Center, Botzer's activism, and her work with marginalized communities.
  10. Naomi Clark Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Clark, Naomi
    Date: Mar. 3, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Bathrooms, Beauty standards, Change of name, Childhood, Coming out, Dating, Discrimination, Educators, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Internet forums, Isolation, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Social networking websites, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Video games--Design, Work situation
    Subject: Judith Butler, Lambda Legal, Naomi Clark, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Naomi Clark describes her work with hte Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the on-line trans and queer community Strap-On.org, and her career in video game design. She begins her oral history with her chil...
  11. Sandra Mesics Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mesics, Sandra
    Date: Jan. 14, 2019
    Topics: Childhood, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Insurance, Journalists, Mardi gras, Marriage, Peace movement, Pronoun, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Steel industry and trade, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Angela Douglas, Betty Johnson, Bobby Ray, Brandy Alexander, Christine Jorgensen, David Wesser, Divine, Eddie Joe Stark, Elizabeth Coffey, Empathy Press, Eromin (Erotic Minorities) Center, Fantasia Fair, Gay Liberation Front, Harry Benjamin, Image, Jack O'Brien, John Money, John Ronald Brown, Lee Brewster, National Enquirer, National Insider, Neptune Productions, Pink Flamingos, Pudgy Roberts, Rachel Harlow, Radical Queens, Reed Erickson, Richard Finocchio, Stonewall Rebellion, The Daily Collegiate, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Third World Communications, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Transvestia, United Transvestites Transsexual Society (UTTS), Virginia Prince, Zelda Suplee
    Description: andra Mesics is a registered nurse and midwife and has been the director of St. Luke’s School of Nursing since 2004. In this conversation with AJ Lewis, Sandy describes accessing hormones and surge...
  12. Trans Oral History: Nothing Left to Tuck

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project
    Date: Oct. 12, 2011
    Topics: Colleges, Coming out, Finances, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center
    Description: Elayne discuses her 15-year process of finding community, coming out, and transitioning in LA and Seattle.