Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Chishaun (CeCe) McDonald
CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this oral history she talks extensively about her early life in Chicago, the prison industrial complex, the matrix of domination, and the TLGB community. She also touches upon trancestory, the stigmas associated with being trans, homelessness, and her experience making the Free CeCe! documentary with Laverne Cox.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- qj72p728d
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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McDonald, Chishaun Reed Mai'luv (CeCe)
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Nov. 27, 2015
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Angela Davis
Brandon Teena
Caitlyn Jenner
Christine Jorgensen
Dean Spade
Dorothy Day Shelter
Free CeCe
George Zimmerman
Honey Bear Royal
Howard Brown Center
Jerry Springer Show
Laverne Cox
Magic Johnson
Marci Bowers
Matthew Shepherd
Normal Life
The New Jim Crowe
Trayvon Martin
- Places
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Minnesota
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Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Minnesota > Ramsey County > City of Saint Paul > Saint Paul
- Topic(s)
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Activists
Appearance
Assigned gender
Black people
Christianity
Coming out
Courts
Crossdressing
Discrimination
Families
Femmes
Gay boys
Gay identity
Gender dysphoria
Heteronormativity
HIV/AIDS
Hormone therapy
Hormones
LGBTQ+ relationships
Murders of LGBTQ+ people
Neonazism
Physical violence
Prisons
Racism
Role behavior
Sissies
Suicide
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
Verbal abuse
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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In copyright
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