Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Rebecca Kling
Rebecca Kling is a white trans woman from Chicago, Illinois. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and college years, her transition, and her work within Camp Aranu'tiq and the trans activist movement at large. Specifically, Kling discusses learning about trans identity online in the 1990s and the narratives that impacted her decision to transition, her work with the host committee for Creating Change in Chicago and with Camp Aranu'tiq, a camp for trans and gender variant young people based in New Hampshire and California, and her thoughts on trans representation in popular culture.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- j098zb306
- 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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Kling, Rebecca
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jan. 25, 2016
- Dates Covered
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circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Caitlyn Jenner
Creating Change
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Philadelphia Trans Health Conference
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Pennsylvania
>
Bucks County
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Borough of New Hope
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New Hope
Illinois > Cook County > Evanston Township > Evanston
Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Midwest
- Topic(s)
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Acceptance
Art
Bullying
Coming out
Dating
Discrimination
Employment discrimination
Gender dysphoria
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Hair--Removal
Harassment
Hormones
LGBTQ+ activism
LGBTQ+ discrimination
LGBTQ+ partners
LGBTQ+ visibility
Medical care
Mental health
Passing (Gender)
Schools
Self-acceptance
Sexual orientation
Social movements
Social privilege
Surgery
Theatre
Therapies
Transgender identity
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/
- Rights
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In copyright
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