Interview with Grecia Magdaleno

An interview with Grecia Magdaleno, a Latinx non-binary advocate, organizer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of this interview, they were the Policy and Adovcacy Manager for the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, a program of the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago that uses education, advocacy, and youth organizing to improve school conditions for LGBTQ youth. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students Charlee Gorham and Anna Schloerb, Magdaleno discusses their upbringing in a religious cult and the impacts of that environment on their thoughts around gender and sexuality, their entry into reproductive health activism and work with Planned Parenthood, and their current work with the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance. Additionally, they discuss their thoughts on relationships, love, intimacy, and consent, the relationships between artistic practice and activism, and the impacts of the COVID pandemic.

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Identifier: n870zr14n
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Magdaleno, Grecia
Contributor(s): Gorham, Charlee
Schloerb, Anna
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Chamness, Daria
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Dec. 4, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Planned Parenthood
Safe Schools Alliance
Places: Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Topic(s): Cults
Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Latino/a/x transgender people
LGBTQ+ activists
LGBTQ+ artists
LGBTQ+ youth
Non-binary people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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