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  1. Eli Erlick Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Erlick, Eli
    Date: Jul. 11, 2023
    Topics: Educational planning, Gender studies, Transfeminine people, Transgender authors, Transgender literature
    Subject: Trans Student Educational Resources
    Description: Born in rural California, Eli Erlick recounts her experiences as one of the only trans kids in her area, which led her, at age 15, to co-found Trans Student Educational Resources, an organization t...
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. Ita Segev Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Segev, Ita
    Date: Feb. 22, 2023
    Topics: Femininities, Jewish transgender people, Nationalism, Religion, Transfeminine people
    Description: An interview with Ita Segev about her life and experiences growing up in Jerusalem.
  5. Ari Brostoff Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Brostoff, Ari
    Date: Jan. 2, 2023
    Topics: Jewish transgender people, Queer theory, Social advocacy, Transgender authors, Transgender community
    Subject: Beyond the Pale, Jewish Currents
    Description: Ari Brostoff is an author and editor at Jewish Currents magazine. In this interview, they recount reading Jewish historical fiction as a child growing up in California. After attending college on t...
  6. 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...
  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. 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 ...
  9. Sophia Margeaux Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Margeaux, Sophia, Bliss, Tom
    Date: Mar. 18, 2022
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Bigender people, Crossdressing, Epilepsy, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ unhoused people
    Subject: Jon Winegarner, Sophia Margeaux
    Description: Sophia Margeaux was born Jon Winegarner in Hettinger, North Dakota in 1953 (Sophia continues to use both names in different contexts and uses he/she/they pronouns). After high school, Sophia moved ...
  10. Yoseñio Lewis Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Lewis, Yoseñio
    Date: Dec. 17, 2021
    Topics: AIDS education, Latino/a/x transgender people, Older transgender people, Trans men, Transgender political activists
    Subject: The TransAms, Yoseñio Lewis
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains sensitive content related to child abuse and sexual assault.
  11. Interview with Canyon Carballosa

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Carballosa, Canyon
    Date: Nov. 11, 2021
    Topics: Choreographers, Dancers, Gender roles, Non-binary people, White transgender people
    Description: An interview with Canyon Carballosa, a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professio...
  12. Interview with Dr. Marci Bowers

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Bowers, Marci
    Date: Nov. 4, 2021
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ parenthood, Plastic surgeons, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), White transgender people
    Subject: World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: An interview with Dr. Marci Bowers, a white woman with a lived trans experience, OB/GYN, and plastic surgeon specializing in gender affirming surgeries. At the time of this interview, she was the p...
  13. Joan Roughgarden Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Roughgarden, Joan, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 30, 2021
    Topics: Evolution (Biology), Gender studies, LGBTQ+ religious people, Trans women, Transgender authors, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Joan Roughgarden
    Description: Joan Roughgarden was born on March 13, 1946 in Peterson, New Jersey, but also lived in the Philippines and Indonesia because her father was a missionary. Joan earned her PhD in biology from Harvard...
  14. Interview with Stephanie Luz Hernandez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Luz Hernandez, Stephanie
    Date: Aug. 20, 2021
    Topics: BIPOC, Femmes, Gender affirming surgery, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Hormone therapy (Gender), Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, Medical care, Queer people
    Subject: Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (GALAP)
    Description: An interview with Stephanie Luz Hernandez, LMFT, a queer Latinx trans-femme licensed mental health therapist, gender health specialist, and trans health activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  15. Beth Elliott Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Elliott, Beth, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 12, 2021
    Topics: Gender dysphoria in youth, Lesbian separatism, LGBTQ+ musicians, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Beth Elliott, Daughters of Bilitis (DOB)
    Description: Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. Sometime during her teen years, Beth experienced what she calls her first goddess vision: looking down at her chest, and seeing br...