Interview with Monet (Kisha) Martin

Monet (Kisha) Martin identifies as a trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She played sports growing up such as basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. Martin was kicked out of high school for fighting. She used to live in Minneapolis, Minnesota until she was 18, then moved to Connecticut from 1997 until 2002, and then to New York City in the South Bronx. Her first boyfriend was Dominican, and she lived with him, his mother, and his sister in New York City for 8 years. Martin was involved in sex work, and she’s been in prison a few times. She was also raped twice during her involvement with sex work. She also does drag. She began taking hormones at 18 from the streets and had bottom surgery. She also had her cheeks done. She currently has a boyfriend who is in jail and who wants to marry her. They have a strong connection together.

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Identifier: m613mx784
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Martin, Monet (Kisha)
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: May 18, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Places: New York
Minnesota
North Holland > Haarlem
Topic(s): Assigned gender
Cannabis
Cross-cultural relationships
Drag queens
Families
Gender identity
Hormones
LGBTQ+ sex workers
MtFs
Rape
Sexual relationships
Sports
Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
Surgery
Transgender people
Violence
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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