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  1. Sean Ebony Coleman Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Coleman, Sean Ebony
    Date: Jul. 25, 2023
    Topics: Ball culture, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ health care centers, Transgender community, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Destination Tomorrow
    Description: An interview with Sean Ebony Coleman, the founder of Destination Tomorrow, a LGBTQ+ center in the Bronx that provides services like job readiness, HIV testing, and emergency housing. In this interv...
  2. Daphne Banks Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Banks, Daphne
    Date: Mar. 17, 2023
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, QTPOC, Religion, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Description: An interview with Daphne Banks about her life and experiences.
  3. Qais Kamran Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Kamran, Qais
    Date: Mar. 14, 2023
    Topics: Jewish transgender people, Nightlife, QTPOC, Transgender community, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement
    Description: Qais Kamran describes his experiences growing up as a first generation Iranian Jew in Los Angeles, attending Jewish day school and discovering the importance of oral history to his family’s communi...
  4. Yves Bess Golden Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Golden, Yves BEss
    Date: Mar. 8, 2023
    Topics: Art, Black transgender people, Dissociation, Spirituality, Transfeminine people
    Description: An interview with Yves Bess Golden about her life and experiences.
  5. Iman Le Caire Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Le Caire, Iman
    Date: Feb. 17, 2023
    Topics: Artists, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Police harassment, QTPOC, Religion, Sexual violence, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Description: An interview with Iman Le Caire a trans woman from Cairo, Egypt. Iman talks about her life and experiences.
  6. Mikail Khan Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Khan, Mikail
    Date: Dec. 19, 2022
    Topics: Family violence, Gender non-conforming identity, Language, QTPOC, Queer community, Sexual orientation, South Asian transgender people
    Description: An interview with Mikail Khan, a trans identifying person from Dhaka, Bangladesh. They talk about their life and experiences.
  7. Gage Spex Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Spex, Gage
    Date: Dec. 2, 2022
    Topics: Art schools, Fashion, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ artists, Nightlife, Non-binary people, Transgender community
    Subject: Dreamhouse, Spectrum
    Description: Gage Spex discusses growing up in Western Massachusetts, where, at a young age, they fell in love with fashion through older movies, like those of Judy Garland. Gage later moved to San Francisco to...
  8. Denne Michele Norris Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Norris, Denne Michele
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Authors, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender community
    Description: Denne Michele Norris is a writer, figure skater and musician. In this interview she discusses her writing practice, how figure skating relates to writing, nonlinear time, and growing up in Clevelan...
  9. Jaheed Hines Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Hines, Jaheed
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Gay pride week, LGBTQ+ visibility, Transgender community, Transmasculine people
    Description: Jaheed Hines (he/him) is a black trans masculine man who was raised in Brooklyn, NYC. He begins detailing his childhood and how he found himself uncomfortable with societal expectations set upon hi...
  10. Kiyan Williams Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Williams, Kiyan
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Arts, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ artists, Transgender community
    Description: A conversation between Darnell L. Moore and Kiyan Williams, a trans identifying visual artist from Newtown, New Jersey.
  11. Mojo Disco Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Disco, Mojo
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Hip-hop, LGBTQ+ artists, Poetry, Transgender community
    Description: Mojo Disco is a multi-talented personality, youth educator, art teacher, fitness instructor, curator, designer, poet, model and artist from NYC. In this interview Mojo discusses being born and rais...
  12. Noah Foster Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Foster, Noah
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Graphic arts, Non-binary people, Social media, Transgender community
    Description: Noah Foster (they/them) is a black and white trans nonbinary human who was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. Today Noah is a graphic artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Noah talks about their hap...
  13. Sydney Baloue Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Baloue, Sydney
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Ball culture, Black transgender people, Multiracial transgender people, South Asian transgender people, Transgender authors, Transmasculine people, Universities and colleges--Graduate work, Voguing
    Description: Sydney Baloue is a writer, producer, boxer, voguer, and the coordinator of events and programming at the Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY. In this interview, he takes us on a tour through the ballr...
  14. Armani (ArmaniDae) Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Armani
    Date: Nov. 29, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Family, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Sexual orientation, Transgender community
    Description: An interview with Amani, a trans man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  15. Yva Las Vegass Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Las Vegass, Yva
    Date: Jul. 13, 2020
    Topics: Folk music, Gender expression, Non-binary people, Performance art, QTPOC
    Subject: Chris Novoselic, Sweet 75
    Description: Yva Las Vegas was born in Venezuela in 1963. They recount their early childhood memories of playing folk music on the cuatro and singing boleros with their mother. Yva moved to the US as a teenager...