Interview with Dee Dee Chamblee

Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee is a Black trans woman from Georgia and the founder of LaGender Inc. At the time of this interview, Chamblee was the Executive Director of LaGender. In this oral history, Chamblee talks about her HIV/AIDS activism, housing insecurity, clubbing in Georgia during the 1970s/1980s, and her encounters with law enforcement. She also talks at length about how gentrification, criminalization, and housing insecurity led her to develop LaGender - an organization committed to uplifting the lives of Black trans women. Lastly, she touches upon her spirituality, drag, her friends, and her family members.

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Identifier: 5h73pw28v
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Chamblee, Dee Dee
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 7, 2017
Dates Covered: circa 1960
circa 1970
circa 1980
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Auburn Seminary Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle for Black Trans Women
Dee Dee Chamblee
Lady Chablis
LaGender
Places: Georgia > Rockdale County
Topic(s): Abuse
Activists
Black people
Busing for school integration
Drag
Educators
Families
Gender identity
HIV/AIDS
Imprisonment
Marriage
Mothers
MtFs
Role models
Spirituality
Transgender people
Transgender youth
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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