Digital Transgender Archive
Interview With Paulina Angel
Paulina Angel is a Hispanic trans woman and musician originally from Indio, CA. Angel is an activist and organizer who has done work for multiple organizations including the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, where she helped pass the Fair Education Act in California. In this interview at the International LGBT Leaders Conference in Washington D.C., she describes her experiences with not having language to describe her identity; challenges with coming out to her family and being accepted; physical abuse as a teenager; and the continuous need to fight for transgender communities. Angel is currently the Executive Director the the Trans Community Project and also works with the Human Rights Campaign, Equity California, and Transgender Educational Resources.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- gb19f6018
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Angel, Paulina
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Dec. 8, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Fair Education Act
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
The Student Senate for California Community Colleges
Transgender Educational Resources
- Places
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington County
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Washington
California > Riverside > Indio
- Topic(s)
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Abuse
Assigned gender
Bullying
Coming out
Crossdressing
Families
Femininities
Gender identity
Hispanic Americans
Hormone therapy
Linguistics
Murders of LGBTQ+ people
Music
Online social networks
Passing (Gender)
Politics
Pronoun
Role behavior
Self medication
Self-acceptance
Social advocacy
Social movements
Transgender community
Transgender identity
Transgender people
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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Copyright undetermined
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