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  1. An Interview with Ellen Mortensen

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Mortensen, Ellen, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Oct. 2, 2009
    Topics: Coming out, Discrimination, Educators, Feminists, Gender identity, Gender studies, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ movement, Marriage, Queer theory, Women's movement
    Description: Ellen Mortensen is a professor at the Department of Literature and Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Research at the University of Bergen. Carlos Motta interviews her throughout this or...
  2. Interview with Alex Iantaffi

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Iantaffi, Alex
    Date: Oct. 6, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Art, Bisexual identity, Child abuse, Communism, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Family relationships, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hormones, Immigration, Intimate partner violence, LGBT activism, LGBTQ+ parents, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical care, Mental health, Musicians, Piano, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Racism, Roman catholicism, Sex, Spirituality, Therapists, Trade unions, Transgender people, White LGBTQ+ people, Work
    Subject: Alex Iantaffi, BiCon, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Alex Iantaffi is a white non-binary gender-queer trans-masculine person who grew up in Rome and uses they and he. In this oral history they speak at length about about their early childhood; their ...
  3. Interview with Andrea Anderson

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Anderson, Andrea
    Date: Apr. 26, 2016
    Topics: Atlantic Coast (North America), Childhood, Communities, Discrimination, Drag performance, Emigration and immigration law, Employment discrimination, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Immigration, Latin Americans, Latinos, Law enforcement, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ poetry, Love, Machismo, Marriage, Middle West, Misogyny, MtFs, Politics, Prisons, Race, Racism, Religion, Sex, Sexism, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Suicide, Transgender people, Work
    Subject: Andrea Anderson, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Westside Clinic
    Description: Andrea Anderson is a Latina trans woman from Mexico City and Minnesota. In this oral history, Anderson details her experiences immigrating from Mexico to the United States. She also speaks about he...
  4. Interview with Andrew Ahl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ahl, Andrew
    Date: Jul. 1, 2016
    Topics: Air force, Army, Atheism, Bartending, Bathrooms, Christianity, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Drag, Drag performance, Employment, Families, Family relationships, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Hormones, Internet, Love, Marriage, Middle West, Military, Parents of transgender people, Religion, Sex, Spiritual life, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Andrew Ahl, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, National Security Administration, Target Corporation, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Andrew (Drew) Ahl is a white trans man. At the time of this interview, Ahl was living and working in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In this oral history, Ahl recounts growing up in a religious military...
  5. Interview with Barbara Satin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Satin, Barbara
    Date: Oct. 13, 2015
    Topics: African Americans, Age, Air force, Assigned gender, Bisexuals, Business people, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Education, Femininities, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Housing for older people, Jet planes--Piloting, Latin Americans--United States, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ people in the military, LGBTQ+ religious people, Marriage, MtFs, Public relations, Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexuality, Social advocacy, Social movements, Therapies, Transgender Roman Catholics
    Subject: 1993 Human Rights Protection for GLBT, Caitlyn Jenner, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Clare Housing, Deputy Faith Work Director, GLBT Generations, National LGBTQ Task Force, Out Front, P Fund, Patricia Wynn, Powderhorn Residence Group, Spirit of the Lakes Church, St. Thomas College, Training to Serve, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, United Church of Christ (UCC)
    Description: Barbara Satin is trans woman from St Paul. She discusses growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, and her experience coming out later in life. She talks about the importance of visibility, and the diffic...
  6. Interview with Erica Fields

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Fields, Erica
    Date: Sep. 8, 2015
    Topics: Adoption, African Americans, Art, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Bullying, Celebrities, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Educational institutions, Family members, Family relationships, Feminists, Friendship, Gender bending, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Hormone therapy, Income, Lesbians, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Middle West, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Race identity, Race relations, Racism, Religion, Roman catholicism, Sex, Sexuality, Socio-economic status, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Support groups, Theatre, Therapies, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Wealth, Work
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine McGinn, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Ellen Krug, Gender Justice, Gender Outlaws, Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change, GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Gonzaga University, Hedda Gabler, Hidden Agenda, Hidden Agender, Hogan's Heroes, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Janet Mock, Jenny Boylan, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Leigh Smythe, Mara Keisling, Marcus Waterbury, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, NASA, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Northwest Bible College, Of Mice and Men, Old Bedlam Theatre, Star Trek, The Miser, The Taming of the Shrew, Trans, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Women's Employment and Security Act (WESA)
    Description: Erica Fields is a woman of transgender history from Edina, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Fields was working in Minnesota as a business woman selling rye. In this oral history Fields spe...
  7. Interview with finn schneider

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: schneider, finn
    Date: Aug. 4, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Assigned gender, Body image, Change of name, Clothing, Criminalization, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Education, Educational institutions, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Genderfluid identity, Health care, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Jews, Marriage, Masculinities, Mental health, Middle West, Name, Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Racism, Religion, Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexuality, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender community, Transgender people, Universities, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: finn schneider is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Michigan. At the time of this interview, schneider was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, scheider speaks at length abou...
  8. Interview with Gloria Allen

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Allen, Gloria
    Date: Apr. 26, 2016
    Topics: Actors, Art, Biracial transgender people, Black people, Church, Community life, Discrimination, Education, Entertainers, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Love, Marriage, Mentoring, Middle West, Nurses, Older people, Racially mixed people, Religion, Sex, Singers, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transitioning (Gender), Women, Work
    Subject: Center on Halstead, Charm (play), Charm school, Gloria Allen, Mixed Blood Theater, Precious Davis, Trans 100 Legacy Award, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halst...
  9. 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...
  10. Interview with Isabelle Wedin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wedin, Isabelle
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Androgyny, Anxiety, Assigned gender, Biotechnology, Bisexuals, Bullying, Children, Coming out, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Employment discrimination, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Indigenous peoples, Intersex, Law, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Plays, Police, Racially mixed people, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Social justice, Spironolactone, Support groups, Swimwear, Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-spirit people, Volunteering
    Subject: Alliance Defending Freedom, Allina Health Systems, Avery Edison, Catherine Graffam, Free CeCe, Google Hangouts, Informational Technology, Julia Serano, June Taylor, MetaFilter, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed i...
  11. Interview with Jessica Polacek

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Polacek, Jessica
    Date: Aug. 17, 2016
    Topics: Army, Child abuse, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Community life, Discrimination, Divorce, Family, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Income, Interpersonal relations, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Love, Marriage, Medical care, Mental disorders, Mental health, Middle West, Military bases, Parenthood, Passing (Identity), Religion, Sex, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people in the military, Wealth, Work
    Subject: Jessica Polacek, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Veteran’s Administration hospital
    Description: Jessica Polacek is a white woman of transgender history. At the time of this interview, Polacek was living in Wisconsin and working at an LGBT center. In this oral history Polacek speaks about livi...
  12. Interview with June Taylor

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Taylor, June
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Celebrities, Change of name, Children, Coming out, Communication, Community life, Conservatives, Cosmetics, Counseling, Couples therapy, Discrimination, Drag performance, Drugs, Electrolysis, Estradiol, Estrogen, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, Legislation, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Love, Marriage, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Passing (Identity) in literature, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Sex, Sexism, Therapeutics, Transgender people, Transvestism
    Subject: Trans Commission, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a ...
  13. Interview with Laura Jane Grace

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Grace, Laura Jane
    Date: Jun. 15, 2016
    Topics: Adolescence, Art, Bars (Drinking establishments), Bisexuality, Celebrities, Coming out, Community life, Creative activities and seat work, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Discrimination in medical care, Education, Families of military personnel, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ parenthood, Love, Marriage, Mental health, MtFs, Music, Privilege (Social psychology), Sex, Southern States, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity, Women
    Subject: Against Me!, An Act to Provide for Single-sex Multiple Occupancy Bathroom and Changing Facilities in Schools and Public Agencies and to Create Statewide Consistency in Regulation of Employment and Public Accommodations, HB2, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Laura Jane Grace is a female from Florida who uses she and they. At the time of this interview, Grace was working as a musician for the band Against Me! In this oral history, Grace reflects upon mo...
  14. 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...
  15. Interview with Paula Overby

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Overby, Paula
    Date: Nov. 16, 2015
    Topics: Art, Community life, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Divorce, Friendship, Harassment, Health, Marriage, Medical care, Mental health, Middle West, Politics, Race, Racism, Sexism, Sexuality, Theatre, Transgender rights, Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Confessions of a Crossdresser, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Paula Overby is a white transgender woman from the United States. At the time of this oral history, Oberby was living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Overby speaks at length about growing up in...