Interview with Elle Hearns

Elle Hearns, founder of the Marsha P Johnson Institute and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, was assigned Black at birth. At the time of this interview Hearns was organizing in Ohio. In this oral history she speaks about the serial murders of Black trans women in Ohio alongside her experiences with law enforcement which led her to community organizing. She also discusses her experiences growing up Apostolic in Columbus, Ohio; sisterhood; homelessness; and her experience starting the Ohio chapter of The Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC). She also touches upon her hopes for future trans worlding, which includes becoming more than our deaths.

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Identifier: xw42n809t
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Hearns, Elle
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 7, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Anita Moore
Betty Skinner
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Brittany Nicole Kidd-Stergis
Cemia Dove
Cherno Biko
Dom Mockings
Erin Lange
GetEQUAL
John Crawford
Lourdes Ashley Hunter
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
Michael Brown
Michael David Battle
Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women
Sylvia Rivera
TGNCF
Tiffany Edwards
Trans Justice Funding Project
TransWomen of Color Collective
Tras Health Care Summit
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Wriply Bennet
Places: Ohio > Franklin County > City of Columbus > Columbus
New York
Georgia > Morgan > Madison
Ohio > Greene > Xenia Township > Wilberforce
Saskatchewan > Rural
Midwest
Topic(s): Activists
Black people
Black people--Race identity
Bullying
Christianity
Coming out
Community life
Discrimination
Education
Family relationships
Friendship
Gay identity
Gender role
Harassment
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness
LGBTQ+ activism
Murders of LGBTQ+ people
Police
Prisons
Race
Racism
Religion
Sexual assault
Social movements
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Suicide
Transgender people
Verbal abuse
Violence
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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