Interview with Alex Griffin

An interview with Alex Griffin, a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbringing and education on her politics, her first forays into, experiences within, and thoughts on trans politics, community organizing, and direct action, her experiences in community self-defense organizing following the murder of George Floyd, and her thoughts on abolition, small-scale community responses to violence and homelessness, and the promise shown by the outpourings of mutual aid and community support in the initial weeks of the uprising. Specifically, she discusses the Minneapolis queer underground arts scene of the mid-2010s, her experiences of the Fourth Precinct protests following the murder of Jamar Clark by the Minneapolis Police in 2015, the white supremacist violence in South Minneapolis in the days and weeks following George Floyd's murder and community self-defense in response to it, neighborhood organizing in South Minneapolis, and the firearms collective she and others are co-founding to bolster community self-defense.

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Identifier: c247ds40p
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Griffin, Alex
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Oct. 2, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Topic(s): LGBTQ+ arts
LGBTQ+ self-defense
Police brutality
Social workers
Trans women
Transgender political activists
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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