Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Valerie Spencer
Valerie Spencer is a Black woman (trans) from LA. At the time of the interview, she was working on a Masters in Social Work at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. In the interview, she discusses her difficult relationship with her father growing up, and how supportive her mother has always been. She discusses what it was like in the 1980s and 1990s to be a member of the LGBT community and to transition, as well as her relationship to religion. and she talks about the mental and emotional difficulties she experienced with higher education. She discusses her thoughts on Caitlyn Jenner, and talks about her current medical practice.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- v118rd85q
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Spencer, Valerie
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Oct. 5, 2017
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Caitlyn Jenner
Janet Mock
Laverne Cox
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
- Places
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New York
California > Los Angeles County > Los Angeles
- Topic(s)
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African American transgender people
Assigned gender
Bullying
Butches
Christianity
Clothing
Depression
Drag queens
Employment discrimination
Exorcism
Families
Families, Black
Femininities
Heteronormativity
HIV/AIDS
Identity politics
Intersectionality (Sociology)
Labeling
Language
Marriage
Medical interventions
Medicalisation
Privilege (Social psychology)
Psychic trauma
Racism
Role behavior
Role models
Schools
Self-care, Health
Social advocacy
Soft butches
Support groups
Therapies
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
- 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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Copyright undetermined
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