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  1. Akasha Barker Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Barker, Akasha, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Jul. 12, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Androgyny, Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Beauty schools, Body image, Change of name, Education, Family members, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Isolation, LGBTI community, Mental health, Music, NGOs, Police brutality, Sexually abused LGBTQ+ children, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: In this conversation with interviewer Sebastián Castro Niculescu, entertainer Akasha Barker (she/her/hers & they/them/theirs) discusses her journey with her gender identity during the HIV/AIDS epid...
  2. Facing Discrimination, Organizing for Freedom: the Transgender Community

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 2000
    Topics: Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Civil rights, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Law, Liberation movements, Personal and family law, Police brutality, Prisoners, Social exclusion, Stonewall riots, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: 1979 March on Washington, Anne Osborn, Brandon Teena, Chai Feldblum, Dallas Denny, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), FTM International, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jane Ellen, JoAnn Roberts, JoAnna McNamara, Lavender Law Conference, Louis G. Sullivan, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Mary Frances Fairfax, Merrissa Sherrill Lynn, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Gender Lobbying Day, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Phyllis Randolph Frye, Sharon Stuart, Stonewall 25, Susan Stryker, The National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), Title VII, Transgender Law Conference, Transsexual Menace, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Tyra Hunter, Virginia Prince
    Description: from the textbook CREATING CHANGE: PUBLIC POLICY, AND CIVIL RIGHTS, Edited by John D'Emilio, William B. Turner and Urvashi Vaid, St. Martins Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-312-24375-8
  3. Interview with Alex Griffin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Griffin, Alex
    Date: Oct. 2, 2020
    Topics: LGBTQ+ arts, LGBTQ+ self-defense, Police brutality, Social workers, Trans women, Transgender political activists, White transgender people
    Description: An interview with Alex Griffin, a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbri...
  4. Interview with Hunta Williams

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Williams, Hunta, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 18, 2016
    Topics: 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
    Subject: Hunta Williams, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: 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 ...
  5. Interview with Rehema Mertinez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mertinez, Rehema
    Date: Mar. 28, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Authority, Black people--Race identity, Black transgender people, Bullying, Celebrities, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Creative activities and seat work--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Depression, Discrimination, Emigration and immigration, Ethnic diversity, Ethnic groups, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Latin Americans, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ visibility, Love, Media, Medical care, Mental health, MtFs, Multiracial transgender people, Police, Police brutality, Prisons, Racially mixed people, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sex, Sexuality, Spirituality, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Visibility, Youth
    Subject: Avenues for Homeless Youth, Trans Youth Support Network, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Rehema Mertinez is a mixed Jamaican and Puerto Rican woman from Minnesota and Australia who goes by she and they. She talks about her early life, moving to Australia as a child, housing insecurity,...
  6. Interview with Stef Wilenchek

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wilenchek, Stef
    Date: Sep. 11, 2015
    Topics: Activism, Bisexuality, Classism, Coming out, Depression, Disabilities, Discrimination, Eating disorders, Education, Family members, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Genderqueer people, Harassment, Health insurance, Heteronormativity, Higher education, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersex, Justice, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Mental health, Parenthood, Police brutality, Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Puberty, Race, Racism, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Social movements, Southern States, Transgender community, Transphobia, Violence, White LGBTQ+ people, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Laverne Cox, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Stef Wilenchek is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Georgia and Ohio. At the time of this oral history, Wilenchek was living in Minneapolis and working at the University of Minnesota. In th...
  7. The Gay Agenda of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Questioning, and Allies (LGBTIQA) Community of Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph, Planning Committe of the Futures Conference of LGBTIQA Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area
    Date: 2005
    Topics: Acceptance, Addictions, AIDS education, Anti-discrimination law, Bisexuals, Civil rights, Condoms, Counseling, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Gay liberation, Hate crimes, Health care, Homelessness, Intersex, LGBTI community, Marriage, Marriage law, Personal and family law, Physicians, Police brutality, Sex education, Sodomy laws, Sports, Support groups, Transgender people, Youth
    Subject: Gay Political Caucus (GPC), Ray Hill, The Futures Conference, The Gay Agenda