Interview with Diana Green

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Diana Green is a white female who has lived in New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Green was working as a caregiver for People with AIDS, an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and on her graphic memoir titled A Sharp Invitation. In this oral history, Green speaks at length about comics she was worked on over the years including "Tranny Towers" published in Lavender Magazine, as well as discusses housing insecurity, domestic abuse, her friends, and her relationships with her family members. She also touches upon her work as a musician, bullying, her experiences with feminist spaces, and encounters with healthcare.

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Identifier: jm214p30p
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Green, Diana
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Issued: Aug. 8, 2015
Dates Covered: circa 1980
circa 1990
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Crompton Cafeteria
OutFront MN
Tranny Towers
TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Topic(s): Bisexual identity
Divorce
Gender affirming surgery
Lesbian identity
LGBTQ+ communities
Trans women
Transsexual people
Unemployment
Working class
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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