Interview with Hunta Williams

Hunta Williams is a deaf, black trans man. Williams grew up in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Minneapolis to attend culinary school. From a young age, he felt “different” than his peers, always playing with boys in school. In this oral history, Williams shares his thoughts on coming out, his complicated relationship with his sexual orientation post-transition, police brutality and the reflective process he went through for his medical transition. Williams’ story sheds important light on the intersections of trans, deaf, black, and male identities.

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Identifier: ng451h78w
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Williams, Hunta
Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Jul. 18, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Hunta Williams
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: New York > Kings County > Brooklyn
Minnesota > Lyon County > City of Minneota > Minneota
Topic(s): Activism
Anti-transgender violence
Atlantic Coast (North America)
Black people--Race identity
Coming out
Community life
Cooks
Deaf people
Discrimination
Education
Families
Family relationships
Friendship
FtMs
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Health
Health care
Hormones
Law enforcement
LGBTQ+ Deaf people
LGBTQ+ visibility
Love
Medical care
Middle West
Parents of transgender people
Police brutality
Prisons
Race
Racism
Sex
Social movements
Surgery
Transgender people
Work
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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