Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Spencer Fugate
Spencer Fugate is a mixed white and Cherokee trans woman who grew up in Tennessee and uses she and they. In this interview, Fugate speaks at length about growing up in Tennessee, religion and spirituality, language and identity, coming out in college, polyamory, and being outed. They also touch upon harassment, encounters with healthcare and financial barriers to accessing medical transition, and positive experiences in queer and trans student groups on campus at Macalester.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 2v23vt52f
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Fugate, Spencer
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Sep. 5, 2015
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Minnesota
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Ramsey County
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City of Saint Paul
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Saint Paul
- Topic(s)
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Bisexuality
Celebrities
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Community life
Education
Families
Femmes
Friendship
Harassment
Health
Health insurance
Love
Medical care
Middle West
MtFs
Native American . . .
Native American transgender people
Passing (Gender)
Passing (Identity)
Polyamory
Racially mixed people
Racism
Religion
Rural development
Sex
Sexuality
Southern States
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Students
Transgender people
White people--Race identity--United States
White transgender people
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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