Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Mara Keisling
Mara Keisling is a white transgender woman from Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, Keisling was the Executive Director at the National Center for Transgender Equality. In this oral history, Keisling speaks at length about her family relationships, naming, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the importance of trans people working in government. She also touches upon the Fantasia Fair conference in 1996, the Southern Comfort Conference in 1998, and the federal administration of the United States of America.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- m900nt616
- 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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Keisling, Mara
- 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. 20, 2017
- Dates Covered
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circa 1960
circa 1980
circa 1970
circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE)
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia County
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City of Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
- Topic(s)
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Anti-transgender violence
Atlantic Coast (North America)
Coming out
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Community life
Conversion therapy
Education
Electrolysis
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Human rights
Income
Privilege (Social psychology)
Race
Shame
Southern States
Surgery, Plastic
Transgender people
Transphobia
Wealth
White people
White people--Race identity--United States
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/
- Rights
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In copyright
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