Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Jess Dugan
Jess Dugan is a white genderqueer person raised in Arkansas. At the time of this interview, Dugan was working as an artist living in St. Louis, Missouri. In this oral history she speaks at length about her childhood, coming out, bullying, her photography practice, and her family relationships. She also talks about her encounters with healthcare, bathroom policing, dating, her involvement in her high school's GSA, and broader political goals within trans networks.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- tb09j589z
- 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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Dugan, Jess
- 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. 22, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Dykes to Watch Out For
Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Transcending Boundaries
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
True Spirit
- Places
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Massachusetts
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Middlesex County
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City of Cambridge
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Cambridge
Missouri > St. Louis > St Louis
Arkansas > Pulaski County > Big Rock Township > Little Rock
- Topic(s)
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Activism
Appearance
Art
Arts
Assigned gender
Bathrooms
Bullying
Coming out
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Communities
Creative activities and seat work
Dating
Divorce
Education
Families
Family relationships
FtMs
Gender diversity
Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Hormones
Lesbian identity
LGBTQ+ partners
Love
Marriage
Masculinities
Passing (Gender)
Photography
Privilege (Social psychology)
Puberty
Race
Self-acceptance
Sex
Social movements
Southern States
White people--Race identity--United States
- 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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