Interview with Ameriah Neal

Ameirah Neal is a Black woman from Washington, DC. At the time of this interview she was working as a Peer Ed Coordinator with a nonprofit organization in DC. In this oral history she speaks at length about growing up in Washington DC with her mother, homelessness, her employment history and experiences with workplace discrimination, and going to art school in the South. She also touches upon topics such as the ballroom scene in Baltimore, geographies of social support for trans people of color, and her encounters with law enforcement.

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Identifier: 5425k9934
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Neal, Ameirah
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Dec. 1, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: Washington, D.C. > Washington County > Washington
Washington, D.C. > Washington > Anacostia
South
Topic(s): Art
Assigned gender
Ball culture
Black LGBTQ+ people
Black people
Child abuse
Colleges
Detention of LGBTQ+ people
Discrimination
Division
Drag
Drug abuse
Employment policies
Etymology
Families
Femininities
Friendships
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Homelessness
Hormone therapy
Intersectionality (Sociology)
Language
LGBTQ+ communities
Passing (Gender)
Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people
Politics
Prejudices
Race relations
Sex work
Sexual orientation
Stereotypes
Transgender community
Transgender people
Work
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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