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  1. Interview with Valerie Spencer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Valerie
    Date: Oct. 5, 2017
    Topics: 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
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
    Description: Valerie Spencer identifies as a black trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the suburbs. She had an older brother who was murdered when s...
  2. Renaissance News & Views, Vol 8. No. 10 (October 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Oct. 1994
    Topics: Activists, Actors, Clothing, Comic strips, Conservatism, Couples, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag queens, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Femininities, Film, Gender realignment surgery, Genderism, Hormones, Letters, Letters to the editor, Media, Medicalisation, Passing (Gender), Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Psychology, Representation, Role models, Self-image, Support groups, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transphobia, Women's music festivals
    Subject: DSM-IV, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Spouses & Partners International Conference for Education (SPICE), The Doom Patrol, The Invisibles