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  1. Interview with Amanda Beech

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Beech, Amanda
    Date: Mar. 3, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Change of name, Cheerleading, Clothing, Coming out, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hairdressers, Health insurance, Hormones, Jews, LGBTQ+ partners, Medical care, Middle West, MtFs, Older people--Education, Orgasm, People with disabilities, Religions, Self-acceptance, Sexual practices, Whites--Race identity, World war II
    Subject: Cullan Markland, Donna Ewing, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Amanda is a white trans woman. At the time of this interview, Amanda was living in Ellendale, Minnesota. In this oral history, Amanda discusses her experiences of gender non-conformity in the years...
  2. Interview with Awen Briem

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Briem, Awen
    Date: Dec. 28, 2015
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Art, Assigned gender, Bullying, Celebrities, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Communities, Employment discrimination, Family relationships, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, Language, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Name, Politics, Religions, Schools, Sex, Sexuality, Social media, Suicide, Surgery, Therapies, Transgender people, Transphobia, Whites--Race identity, Youth
    Subject: OutFront Minnesota, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Awen Briem is a white transgender person. At the time of this interview, he was working as a tattoo artist based out of Minneapolis. In this oral history, Briem speaks at length about growing up in...
  3. Interview with Cressida Silver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Silver, Cressida
    Date: Jan. 31, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Artificial insemination, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Children of lesbians, Children of transgender people, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Demonstrations, Divorce, Families, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Lesbians, Marriage, Pornography, Pregnancy, Sex industry, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chelsea Manning, Mara Keisling, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Geographic, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
    Description: Cressida Silver is a transgender lesbian from Minnesota. She discusses her family and experiences growing up, starting a family, and her experience with work and getting her Master’s degree. She al...
  4. Interview with Freya Richman

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Richman, Freya
    Date: Nov. 2, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Art, Arts and entertainment occupations, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Directors, Discrimination, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Femmes, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hormones, Jews, Love, MtFs, Religions, Sex, Support groups, Transitioning (Gender), Work
    Subject: 20% Theatre, Artaria String Quartet, Community Center, The Naked I, Transgender Equity Council of the City of Minneapolis, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Freya Richman is a Jewish trans woman from Appleton, Wisconsin. She became involved with 20 Percent Theater and their show The Naked I, which she was able to use as a platform to tell her story. Sh...
  5. 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...
  6. Interview with K. Davis Senseman

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Senseman, K. Davis
    Date: Jan. 10, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Appearance, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, LGBTQ+ parenthood, Masculinities, Politics, Pronoun, Race, Racism, Social movements, Spirituality, Transgender people, Wealth, White LGBTQ+ people, Work, Working class
    Subject: Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: K. Davis Senseman is a white gender-queer person from Pittsburgh who uses all pronouns. At the time of this interview, Senseman was working as a lawyer based out of Northeast Minneapolis. In this o...
  7. Interview with Marlene Somers

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Somers, Marlene
    Date: Sep. 23, 2015
    Topics: Air pilots, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Family members, Family relationships, Friendships, Gender identity, Gender identity--Law and legislation, Gender realignment surgery, Grandchildren, Health, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Medical care, Military, MtFs, Psychotherapy, Retirees, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), White LGBTQ+ people, Work
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Clark institute, Tretter Collection Autogynephilia, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Marlene Somers is a white MTF transsexual person from South Minneapolis. At the time of this interview, Somers was retired. In this oral history, Somers speaks at length about living two lives at o...
  8. Interview with Melissa Harl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Harl, Melissa
    Date: Jan. 30, 2017
    Topics: Boy Scouts, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Conformity, Discrimination, Educators, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Marriage, Music, Sexuality, Socialisation, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Gender Odyssey, Kate Bornstein, Macalester College, Smiley's Family Clinic, Stonewall 25, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Melissa Harl is a white female with transgender experience and history who grew up in Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Harl was working as a Professor at the University of Minnesota. In th...
  9. Interview with Nasreen Mohamed

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mohamed, Nasreen
    Date: Jun. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Adoption, Bathrooms, Clothing, Colonization, Coming out, Discrimination, Emigration and immigration, Faith, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Government policy, Homophobia, Intersectionality (Sociology), Islam--Customs and practices, Islamophobia, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mass shootings, Muslims, Parenthood, Puberty, Religions, Sexuality, Social justice, Student passports
    Description: Nasreen Mohamed is Tanzanian gender non-conforming person from the coast of Dar es Salaam. At the time of this interview, Mohamed was working in the field of post-secondary education. In this oral ...
  10. 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,...
  11. Interview with Taya Mitchell

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mitchell, Taya
    Date: Apr. 6, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bathrooms, Black race--Color, Bullying, Clothing, Coming out, Families, Femininities, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Identification cards, Inclusive education, Language, Medical care, Privilege (Social psychology), Racism, Representation, Reproduction, Schools, Social media, Surgery, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, OutFront Minnesota
    Description: Taya Mitchell is a performance artist and community organizer who was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. In this oral history, she shares many of her experiences with being homeschooled; bullying ...