Interview with Kya Concepcion

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Kya Concepcion is a mixed Native, Black, and white trans femme person from Marietta, Georgia. At the time of this interview, they were living in the Twin Cities. In this interview Concepcion touches upon topics including homelessness, their family relationships, recovery, and workplace discrimination. They also talk about their goals for the future, sex work, being intersex, and Blackness.

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Identifier: ks65hc35f
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Concepcion, Kya
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Oct. 24, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Seoul
Georgia > Cobb County > Marietta
Georgia > Carroll > Carrollton
Georgia > Carroll > Villa Rica
Topic(s): Activism
Battering
Black people
Black people--Race identity
Black transgender people
Bullying
Cherokee women
Clubs
Cocaine
Coming out
Community life
Drug addiction
Education
Families
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender diversity
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Healing
Homelessness
Intersex
Intersex people of color
Intimate partner violence
LGBTQ+ partners
LGBTQ+ people in recovery
LGBTQ+ people with addictions
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Middle West
Native American . . .
Native American transgender people
People with disabilities
Psychotherapy
Race
Racially mixed people
Racism
Religion
Rural development
Sex work
Sexual abuse
Sexuality
Social movements
Southern States
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Substance abuse
Tomboys
Transgender people
White transgender people
Whites--Race identity
Work
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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