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  1. Tracee McDaniel Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: McDaniel, Tracee, Mukerjee, Lucy
    Date: Dec. 13, 2022
    Topics: Black transgender people, Entertainers, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ visibility, Trans women, Transgender authors, Transgender autobiographies, Transgender political activists, Transgender rights
    Subject: Atlanta Citizens Review Board, Betty Couvertier, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Peanuts Disco, The Housing Atlanta Program (THAP), Tracee McDaniel, Trans Affairs Committee
    Description: Tracee McDaniel was born on January 20th 1967 in Sumter, South Carolina. At the age of 18, Tracee began performing as her alter ego Destiny (Your Mistress of Illusions), before moving to L.A. and s...
  2. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major
    Date: Jul. 27, 2016
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Catholic Church, Drag, Drag queens, Gay men, Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ clubs, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Misogyny, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Normalization, Passing (Gender), Police, Sex work, Sissies, Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans men, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Women's movement
    Subject: Ashley, Christine Jorgensen, Cookie, Evelyn, Frank Smith, Grandma Cerils, Helen, Judy Garland, Kitty, Madison Society, Major!, Marcus Arana, Marsha P. Johnson, Mattachine Society, Miss Major, Monica, Natalie Wood, National Lawyers Guild, Puppy, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy conducted by Mason Funk August 27, 2016 at the apartment she shared with her son in Oakland. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was one of a group of transgender women...
  3. Mia Yamamoto Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Yamamoto, Mia
    Date: Apr. 17, 2017
    Topics: Asian American transgender people, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Japanese American lawyers, LGBTQ+ veterans, Trans women, Transphobia
    Subject: Aiden Aizumi, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Black Lives Matter (BLM), Christine Jorgensen, Civil Rights Movement, Concentration Camp, Cornel West, Donald Trump, Ellen Kameya, Emililo Aguinaldo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fred Korematsu, Frederick Douglass, Gordon Hiranbayashi, Harold Kameya, Harvey Milk, Ho Chi Min, Jacqueline Nquyen, Jamison Green, Marsha Aizumi, Mia Yamamoto, Mitsuye Endo, UCLA Law School, Vietnam War
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Mia Yamamoto conducted by Mason Funk on April 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA. At age 60 she came out as publicly as transgender. Since then, she has been an ardent advocate and ...
  4. Karina Samala Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Samala, Karina, Valdez, Rain
    Date: Jul. 27, 2022
    Topics: Asian transgender people, Filipinos, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender people of color, Transgender political activists
    Subject: Imperial Court, Jeffrey Prang, José Sarria, Karina Samala, The Closet Ball, West Hollywood Transgender Advisory Board
    Description: Karina Samala migrated to California from Manila, Philippines after finishing school, where she worked for 13 years as a senior engineer in an aerospace military company. After winning Closet Ball ...
  5. Janetta Johnson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Johnson, Janetta, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 10, 2021
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Trans women, Transmisogynoir
    Subject: Janetta Johnson, Miss Major, Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to sexual assault and transphobic language.
  6. Interview with Jenna Rapues

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rapues, Jenna
    Date: Jun. 21, 2021
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ migrants, LGBTQ+ older people, LGBTQ+ people of color, Public health, Trans women, Transgender political activists
    Subject: Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (CoE), Gender Health SF, Openhouse, U.S. Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH), World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: An interview with Jenna Rapues, MPH, a Filipina trans woman, activist, and leader in public and transgender health in government, research, academic and public health institutions. She lives in San...
  7. Interview with Aldita Gallardo

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Gallardo, Aldita
    Date: Jan. 16, 2020
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ youth, Public health, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender community centers
    Subject: Borealis Philanthropy, El/La Para Translatinas, Fund for Trans Generations
    Description: An interview with Aldita Gallardo, a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Ass...