Interview with JAC Stringer

JAC Stringer is a Native American two spirit, genderqueer femme trans guy from Ohio. Stringer has founded multiple entities including the Heartland Trans Wellness Group, GenderBLOC, Cincinnati Trans Community Group, and Trans Identified Providers Support (TIPS). At the time of this video, he was a community organizer based out of the Midwest. In this interview he talks at length about his childhood experiences with gender, disability, and bullying. He also talks extensively about his activism and trans community building, as well as his desire to resist pathologization. Lastly, Stringer touches upon topics such as drag, gender policing within trans communities, and trans normalization.

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Identifier: p8418n34x
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Stringer, JAC
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 17, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: Ohio > Hamilton County > Cincinnati
Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Ohio > Cuyahoga County > City of Cleveland > Cleveland
Ohio > Portage County > City of Kent > Kent State University
Ohio > Hamilton > Cincinnati > University of Cincinnati
Midwest
Topic(s): Activism
Activists
Androgyny
Assigned gender
Bipolar disorder
Bullying
Childhood and youth
Coming out
Community life
Counseling
Depression
Disabilities
Discrimination
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Drag
Education
Femininities
Friendship
Gender binaries
Gender diversity
Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Health
Health care
Hormones
Labour movement
LGBTQ+ communities
LGBTQ+ relationships
Masculinities
Medication
Mental health
Misogyny
Native American LGBTQ+ people
Native americans
Oppression
Parents of transgender people
Peace movement
Race
Roman catholicism
Social movements
Suicide
Transgender movement
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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