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  1. An Interview with Dag Ø. Endsjø

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Motta, Carlos, Endsjoø, Dag Ø.
    Date: Nov. 3, 2009
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Heterosexuality, Human rights, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Politics, Queer theory, Religions
    Subject: Norwegian Human Rights Alliance
    Description: In this oral history, Carlos Motta interviews Dag Ø. Endsjø, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bergen and the leader of Menneskerettsalliansen, the Norwegian Human Rights Alliance...
  2. An Interview with Marcela Sánchez

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Sánchez, Marcela, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Mar. 11, 2010
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Discrimination, Feminists, Gender, Human rights, Sexuality
    Subject: Profamilia
    Description: Marcela Sánchez describes herself in this interview by saying, "I am a social worker, a feminist, and I have worked with issues of women’s participation in politics, sexual and reproductive health,...
  3. Interview with barbara findlay

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: findlay, barbara, Taylor, Evan
    Date: May 20, 2020
    Topics: Human rights, Law, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Queer rights, Transgender rights
    Subject: barbara findlay, Kimberly Nixon, Synthia Kavanagh
    Description: Oral history with barbara findlay discussing her work with the queer community as a lawyer and activist.
  4. Interview with Jamison Green

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Green, Jamison, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Feb. 28, 2020
    Topics: Communication, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Human rights, Insurance, Law, Leadership, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ communities, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Social advocacy, Transgender rights
    Subject: Jamison Green, Standards of Care, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Oral history with Jamison Green discussing his activism, community efforts, and work with World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
  5. Interview with Lou Weaver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Weaver, Lou
    Date: Dec. 9, 2016
    Topics: Adoption, Bullying, Change of name, Coming out, Family members, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Human rights, Hysterectomy, Identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Patriarchy, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Pregnancy, Same-sex marriage, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), RuPaul
    Description: Lou Weaver identifies as a queer trans man and was assigned female at birth. He was born in 1970 and raised in El Centro, California. He was also adopted. Weaver then moved to Denver, Colorado when...
  6. Interview with Mara Keisling

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Keisling, Mara
    Date: Jan. 20, 2017
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Electrolysis, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Human rights, Sexual reorientation, Shame, Surgery, Plastic, Transgender people, Transphobia, White people
    Subject: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
    Description: Mara Keisling, born in 1959 and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a white transgender woman assigned male at birth. She started thinking about gender as a toddler. Despite not wanting to be on...
  7. Kimberly Nixon Full Interview (Audio Only)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Nixon, Kimberly, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jun. 29, 2020
    Topics: Air pilots, Human rights, Law, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ community centers, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Trans women, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: Oral history with Kimberly Nixon discussing her work as a pilot and the legal cases she pursued. Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to non-consensual sexual a...
  8. Lorena Borjas Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Borjas, Lorena, Van Ness, Lorenzo
    Date: Jun. 11, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Deportation, Friendships, Hormones, Human rights, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Lorena Borjas Community Fund, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
    Description: (Entrevista en Español) Lorena Borjas habla con Lorenzo Van Ness sobre su vida como activista de los derechos de las mujeres trans inmigrantes indocumentadas y trabajadoras sexuales en Jackson Heig...
  9. Lorenzo Van Ness Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Acquaye-Reynolds, Cleopatra
    Date: Oct. 29, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Families, Gender identity, Human rights, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Social classes, Transgender people, Travel
    Description: Lorenzo Van Ness, a trans identifying individual, defines their gender as "super cute". They talk about their upbringing in a Dominican-American family, and their struggle with finding acceptance f...
  10. Martine Stonehouse Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Human rights, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Martine Stonehouse
  11. Pauline Park Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Park, Pauline
    Date: Mar. 9, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Adoption, Coming out, Diversity, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Human rights, Law, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Liberation movements, MtFs, Politics, Racism, Solidarity, Support groups, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Pauline Park
    Description: Pauline Park is a long-time transgender activist based in New York City who led the campaign for the 2004 New York City transgender rights law. Born in Korea but adopted into a Christian evangelica...