Elise van der Merwe Bishop Collection

Elise van der Merwe Bishop is a MTF transgendered person, who told her story in the Afrikaans media in 1982 (series A). Elise received many letters from individuals who read her story, and these letters and her written responses comprise series B. Some of these letters were from other transgender people and in one instance was accompanied by photographs (part of the reason for the confidentiality form users must sign). Elise lodged the material in this collection with a publisher with the intention of publishing a never completed memoir. The bulk of the records are in Afrikaans.

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Identifier: fb494865z
Collection: Discovery Resources
Institution: GALA Queer Archive
Contributor(s): Manion, Anthony
Chernis, Linda
Publisher: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
Date Created: Nov. 2005
Dates Covered: 1982 to 1983
Genre: Finding Aids
Subject(s): Elise van der Merwe Bishop
Places: Western Cape > West Coast District Municipality > Matzikama > South Africa
Namibia
Topic(s): Letters
Military
MtFs
Photographs
Transgender people
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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