Interview with Ignacio Rivera

Ignacio Rivera is a Black-Boricua-Taíno transgender Two-Spirit person from Brooklyn. At the time of this interview, Rivera was working as an Educator, Activist, and Performer based out of New York. In this oral history, they speak at length about their family relationships, gender fluidity, economic justice, and POC presence in play parties and kink spaces. They also touch upon their work for non-profits, community-based alternatives to calling the police, respectability politics, and polyamory. Rivera is the founder of a project dedicated to sexual liberation called Poly Patao Productions.

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Identifier: cj82k743r
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Rivera, Ignacio
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 7, 2015
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Amanda Rivera
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Project
Poly Patao Productions
This Bridge Called My Back
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: New York
New York > Kings County > Brooklyn
San Juan > San Juan Antiguo Barrio
East Coast
Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Topic(s): Activists
Androgyny
Art
Artists
Assigned gender
Black people--Race identity
Bullying
Children of transgender people
Coming out
Discrimination
Education
Families
Family relationships
Femininities
Gender realignment surgery
Gender role
Gender-affirming care
Heteronormativity
Hormones
Hysterectomy
Indigenous peoples
Lesbian culture
Lesbians
LGBTQ+ partners
Love
Masculinities
Mental health
Misogyny
Multiracial LGBTQ+ people
Native American LGBTQ+ people
Parenthood
Passing (Gender)
Police
Polyamory
Race
Racism
Sex
Social privilege
Transgender people
Transphobia
Two-Spirit people
Work
Writers
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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