Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Lourdes Ashley Hunter
Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black trans communities. Specifically, she recounts her work to found a support group for trans people of color in Detroit at the age of 17, her experience with Queers for Economic Justice and other radical queer and trans organizations in New York, and her co-founding of the Trans Women of Color Collective. She also discusses the violence faced by Black trans people, and her ideas around healing, community support, mentorship, and intergenerational organizing for trans liberation.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- br86b375x
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Mar. 22, 2017
- Dates Covered
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circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Barack Obama
Creating Change
Ellie Ford
Islan Nettles
Laverne Cox
Queers for Economic Justice
Slyvia Rivera Law Project
Trans Justice
Trans Youth Group
TransWomen of Color Collective
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Women's March
- Places
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New York
Minnesota > Ramsey County > City of Saint Paul > Saint Paul
Michigan > Wayne County > City of Detroit > Detroit
- Topic(s)
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Activism
Activists
Assigned gender
Black people
Black people--Race identity
Bullying
Christianity
Community life
Families
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender diversity
Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender-affirming care
Genocide
Hair--Removal
Healing
HIV/AIDS
Hormones
Liberation movements
Mentoring
Middle West
Race
Racism
Self-acceptance
Sex work
Social movements
Social work with youth
Transgender people
Violence
- 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/
- Rights
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In copyright
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