Interview with Ryan Li Dahlstrom

Ryan Li Dahlstrom is a mixed Asian and white trans masculine person from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Dahlstrom was working as a consultant. In this oral history, Dahlstrom discusses coming out in college, activism, building trans community spaces and trans leadership, racial justice within transgender and queer communities; and the resilience of building chosen families. Dahlstrom has been involved with Gender Blur, Trans Youth Support Network, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Board, and Communities United Against Violence.

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Identifier: tq57nr32v
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Dahlstrom, Ryan Li
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Mar. 28, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Board
Gender Blur
Transgender Youth Support Network
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: California > Los Angeles County > Los Angeles
Minnesota > Saint Louis County > City of Duluth > Duluth
Topic(s): Activism
Activists
Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
Coming out
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Communities
Community life
Discrimination
Education
Family relationships
Friendship
FtMs
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Hormones
LGBTI community
Liberation movements
Love
Middle West
Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people
Privilege (Social psychology)
Race
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Sex
Social movements
Transgender people
Violence
White people--Race identity--United States
Work
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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