Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Dona Ewing
Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the first of two interviews between Jenkins and Ewing held in the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. At the time of this interview, Ewing was retired and living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ewing speaks at length about working the coat check at the Gay 90s for over 20 years, people she's known who died of AIDS, sexuality, and her encounters with healthcare. She also touches upon her childhood and family relationships, her gender and sexuality during the 1930s-1940s, interracial relationships, sex work, and respectability.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- n296wz43m
- 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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Ewing, Dona
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Apr. 5, 2016
- Dates Covered
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circa 1930
circa 1940
circa 1950
circa 1960
circa 1970
circa 1980
circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Dona Ewing
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Minnesota
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Polk County
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City of Crookston
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Crookston
- Topic(s)
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AIDS (Disease)--Patients
Alcohol
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Community life
Drag performance
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
HIV/AIDS
Hormones
Income
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Medical care
Middle West
Race
Racism
Sex work
Sexual orientation
Surgery--Complications
Transitioning (Gender)
Wealth
Whites--Race identity
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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