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  1. Ash Stephens Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Ash Stephens
    Date: Apr. 19, 2019
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black people, Butches, Change of name, Childhood, Christianity, Education, Family members, Femininities, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Higher education, Lesbian culture, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Military, Older people, Police patrol--Surveillance operations, Politics, Pronoun, Religions, Social classes, Soft butches, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Bible Belt, Black Hollywood, Brooklyn Bail Fund, Georgia Southern University, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Description: Ash recounts growing up in a southern Bible Belt community. He details his journey from Georgia to Chicago where he completed his higher-level education and met his “chosen family.” Ash is currentl...
  2. Gia Love Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Love, Gia
    Date: Apr. 11, 2019
    Topics: African diaspora, African-americans, Black people, Bullying, Butches, Childhood, Crossdressing, Debates, Drag balls, Femininities, Foster children, Gender, Gender diversity, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Mothers, Racism, Sexism, Sexual abuse, Soft butches, Special education, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Women
    Subject: Butch Queen, City College, Destination Tomorrow, Ginovia, Greenlight Hub, Harlem United, Harvard University, House of Bacardi, House of Juicy, House of Louboutin, House of McQueen, Islan Nettles, Kalem Lord, Malcolm X, Marist College, Martin Luther King Jr., New York Urban Debate League (NYUDL), Paris Is Burning, Sundance, TQ, Uber
    Description: Gia Love reflects on her life in the kiki ball scene, an underground queer and trans dance community in New York City. In kiki, particularly the House of Juicy, Gia found deep friendships and a sup...
  3. Interview Olivia Hnlicka

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hnlicka, Olivia
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Art, Assigned gender, Beauty standards, Butches, Capitalism, Cisgender people, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Femmes, Friendship, Gay community, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Hair, Hair--Removal, Health, Heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ communities, Love, Masculinities, Medical care, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Religions, Sex, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, White LGBTQ+ people, White people
    Subject: About Face Youth Theatre, Annoyance Theatre, Bear Culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coed Prison Sluts, Crusty Girl, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vogue Magazine
    Description: Olivia “Liv” Hnilicka is a white trans woman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing and early life as a queer person, her move to Chicago at the age...
  4. Interview with Ani Koch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Koch, Ani
    Date: Jan. 6, 2017
    Topics: Bullying, Butches, Celebrities, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Drag, Drag performance, Education, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Health insurance, Lesbians, Marriage, Masculinities, Middle West, Monogamy, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Social exclusion, Soft butches, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Rainbow Health Initiative, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ani Koch is a white genderqueer person from Dubuque, Iowa. They talk about their experiences at school growing up, coming to better understand their gender, and their experience with and thoughts o...
  5. Interview with Ben Singer

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Singer, Ben
    Date: Nov. 24, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Activists, Bullying, Butches, Change of name, Coming out, Drag performance, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Education, Family members, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health, Health care, Health insurance, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Oppression, Privilege (Social psychology), Public health, Race, Racism, Rural development, Sexual abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Social movements, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Bridges to Coalition: A Community Forum on Trans Issues, Transgender Health Action Coalition, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the ...
  6. Interview with Gradylee Shapiro

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Shapiro, Gradylee
    Date: Jan. 17, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bisexuality, Bullying, Butches, Classism, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Dating, Death and dying, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Mental disorders, Mental health, Ovariectomy, Passing (Gender), Poor, Racism, Schools, Social movements, Social privilege, Soft butches, Swindlers and swindling, Testosterone, Transitioning (Gender), Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: District 202, Ethan Laubach, Gender Blur, GLBT Youth Organization, Prism, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white m...
  7. Interview with Joy Michael Starkey

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Starkey, Joy Michael
    Date: Jul. 5, 2017
    Topics: Bisexual identity, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Conservatives, Education, Family members, Family relationships, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Genderfluid identity, Harassment, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ families, LGBTQ+ visibility, Prisons, Quakers, Race, Racism, Religion, Sexism, Social movements, Soft butches, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Tomboys
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Joy Michael Starkey is a white genderqueer non-binary trans person from Washington. At the time of this interview, Starkey was a PhD student. In this oral history, Starkey speaks at length about st...
  8. Interview with Raymond Rea

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rea, Raymond
    Date: Oct. 16, 2016
    Topics: Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Butches, Community life, Creative activities and seat work, Education, Friendship, Gay and lesbian film festivals, Gender-affirming care, Genderfluid identity, Genderqueer people, Health, Italian American men, LGBTQ+ films, Medical care, Middle West, Older queer people, Older transgender people, Pacific Coast (U.S.), Trans men, Transitioning (Gender), White transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Raymond Rea is a Italian-English-American-white trans male raised in Massachusetts. At the time of this oral history, Rea was working as a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Design at Minnesot...
  9. Interview with T. Aaron Hans

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hans, T. Aaron
    Date: Feb. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Activists, AIDS activists, Bullying, Butches, Coming out, Community life, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, FtMs, Gay identity, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Identity, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Love, Masculinities, Medication, Middle West, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Sex, Social movements, Social norms, Sports, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transmasculine people, Voice therapy (Gender), White transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Work, Youth
    Subject: Creating Change, Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Program, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Minnie Bruce Pratt, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Shadow Morton, Title IX, Trans Youth Support Network, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Trump Administration
    Description: T. Aaron Hans is a white butch transmasculine person who grew up in Germany and the United States and uses he and ze. At the time of this oral history, Hans was working as at Hamline University. In...
  10. Interview with Tiq Milan

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Milan, Tiq
    Date: Nov. 2, 2017
    Topics: Anti-Blackness, Art, Autobiographies, Bars, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Butches, Children, Coming out, Creative activities and seat work, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Families, Friendships, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ partners, Racism, Roman catholicism, Social privilege, Soft butches, Sports, Substance abuse, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Working class
    Subject: Brian Michael Smith, Bronx Community Pride Center, Buzzfeed, CeCe McDonald, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Hetrick Martin Institute, Huffington, Lambda Legal, MTV, National Anti Violence Project, Niagara University, Power and Privilege Series, Queen Sugar, Redefining Masculinity, Rolling Stone, Source Magazine, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), The Guardian, The New Yorker, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vibe Magazine
    Description: Tiq Milan is a Black trans man who grew up in Buffalo, New York. At the time of this interview, Milan was working as a writer based out of New York. In this oral history he talks about growing up i...
  11. Interview with Ty Yule

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Yule, Ty
    Date: Aug. 20, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Bullying, Businesses, Butches, Coming out, Family members, Femininities, FtMs, Gay culture, Gay pride, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Punk, Same-sex marriage, Self-destructive behavior, Social movements, Soft butches, Suicidal behavior, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Women's bars
    Subject: ACT UP, Cher, Queer Nation, The L Word
    Description: Ty Yule is a white trans man. In life, Yule has spent time in the Midwest (in Iowa and Minnesota) and in California (in Apple Valley and San Francisco). In this interview, Yule touches upon topics ...
  12. 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 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 di...
  13. Rona Love Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Love, Rona
    Date: Jul. 2, 2019
    Topics: Arts, Bisexual community, Butches, Child abuse, Drag community, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Judaism, Kidnappings, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Music, Prison guards, Prisons, Self-respect, Sexual abuse, Slang, Soft butches, Street violence, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Black and Pink, Daniel Poliak, Director of Prison Justice Project, Hazel Katz, Mick King K, Parole Preparation Project, Sparkle, Tremont
    Description: Rona Love discusses her early childhood hardships, three decade long incarceration and experiences in psychiatric hospitals. She details abuse, violence and the extreme isolation of being a trans-f...
  14. Sage Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sage
    Date: May 9, 2019
    Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature
    Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr
    Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you...