Interview with Dee Dee Chamblee

Dee Dee Chamblee was born and raised in Rockdale County, GA. She shares her story at the Auburn Seminary Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle for Black Trans Women. In this oral history, she discusses her early understanding of her identity; her relationship with her mother, coming out; her role model, Lady Chablis; being arrested for being Black and trans; being HIV positive; and her community building work. Chamblee is an activist and founder of the organization, LaGender, which supports Black trans women and has done coalition work to stop the arrests of Black trans women as well. She shares parts of her spirituality and her hopes for the trans community in the future, and for trans youth.

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Identifier: 5h73pw28v
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Chamblee, Dee Dee
Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 7, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Auburn Seminary Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle for Black Trans Women
Dee Dee Chamblee
Lady Chablis
LaGender
Places: Georgia > Rockdale County
Topic(s): Abuse
Activists
Black people
Drag
Educators
Families
Gender identity
HIV/AIDS
Imprisonment
Marriage
Mothers
MtFs
Role models
Spirituality
Transgender people
Transgender youth
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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