Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Reneka Evans
Reneka Evans is a Black trans female who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time of this oral history, Evans was working at The Red Door. In this oral history, Evans discusses moving to Minneapolis in the early 90s, drag culture, encounters with healthcare, sexuality, workplace discrimination, the importance of community, and her job as an HIV educator.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- ks65hc48h
- 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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Evans, Reneka
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Aug. 21, 2016
- Dates Covered
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circa 1980
circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Red Door Clinic
Reneka Evans
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality
- Places
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Minnesota
>
Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
>
Minneapolis
Tennessee > Shelby County > Memphis
- Topic(s)
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Activism
AIDS (Disease)
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Black people
Black people--Race identity
Community life
Dating
Discrimination
Drag
Drag balls
Drag performance
Education
Educators
Employment discrimination
Families
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Health
Health insurance
HIV infections
Hormones
Law enforcement
Love
Medical care
MtFs
Prisons
Religion
Sex
Sex work
Social movements
Southern States
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Surgery
Transgender community
Transgender people
Work
- 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/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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