Bianey Garcia Oral History

Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities. Born in Veracruz, Mexico and raised in Veracruz and Chiapas, Bianey describes the transphobic violence that forced her to relocate to Tijuana at 14 and subsequently New York City. Bianey recounts her initial experiences as an undocumented, trans woman of color in New York including finding trans community and the transphobic and racist policing that resulted in her incarceration at Rikers Island. Later, she describes her involvement with the Trans Immigrant Project and the first Trans Latina March, obtaining a green card, and her plans to revisit her family in Mexico for the first time in 12 years.

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Item Information:

Identifier: 4f16c3153
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): O'Brien, Michelle Esther
Garcia, Bianey
Contributor(s): Katz, Micah
Publisher: New York Public Library
Date Created: Jul. 13, 2017
Dates Covered: 1990 to 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
Subject(s): Bianey Garcia
Make the Road
Places: New York
Baja California > Tijuana
New York > Queens > Francis R Buono Memorial Bridge
Chiapas > Chiapa de Corzo
Veracruz
Topic(s): Childhood
Coming out
Discrimination
Families
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness
Hormones
Immigration
Immigration law
Imprisonment
Latin american cultures
Lawyers
LGBTI community
LGBTQ+ sex workers
MtFs
Organisations
Police
Prisons
Racism
Sexual abuse
Transgender people
Transphobia
Violence
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 25 seconds
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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