Digital Transgender Archive
Tamara Ching interview
Susan Stryker interviews Tamara Ching, a sex worker, trans woman, and native San Franciscan. Ching extensively discusses her experience of living and working in the Tenderloin, describing sex work as a source of lifelong validation and pride, despite the harassment and violence she endured as a young woman from police offers and clients. Stryker and Ching also talk about political and religious organizing in the Tenderloin. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens.
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- Citation
- Cite
- Identifier
- np193969p
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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GLBT Historical Society
- Creator(s)
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Stryker, Susan
- Date Created
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2001
- Dates Covered
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circa 1960
- Genre
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Oral Histories
- Subject(s)
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Screaming Queens
Tamara Ching
- Places
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California
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San Francisco County
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San Francisco
California > San Francisco County > Chinatown
California > San Francisco County > Tenderloin
- Topic(s)
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Androgyny
Asian American transgender people
Drag queens
LGBTQ+ people who use substances
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Trans women
Transgender sex workers
Transvestites
- Resource Type
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Moving image
- Digital Format
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Duration: 1:06:20
- Language
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English
- Rights
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In copyright
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