Interview with Thalia Hernandez

An interview with Thalia Hernandez, a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director at Equality Virginia, the leading LGBTQ advocacy organization in the commonwealth. In this oral history interview, Hernandez discusses her upbringing, experiences of transition, and forays into trans activism and advocacy work, the specifics of Equality Virginia's work and the barriers facing trans and gender non-conforming people in Virginia, and her thoughts on trans politics, legislative approaches to trans liberation, and the uprisings and anti-racist reckonings of 2020 following the death of George Floyd. Specifically, she discusses her thoughts on the then newly passed statewide anti-discrimination law the Virginia Values Act, anti-discrimination laws and legal change in general, the specifics of the 2020 uprisings in Richmond, and her thoughts on the future of Equality Virginia and other white-led queer and trans organizations in a future with Black trans leadership.

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Identifier: t148fh46c
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Hernandez, Thalia
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Aug. 3, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Equality Virginia
Places: Virginia > City of Richmond > Richmond
Topic(s): Anti-discrimination law
Gender non-conforming people
Latino/a/x transgender people
Non-binary people
Trans women
Transgender people
Transgender political activists
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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