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Trans Oral History: Changing the Rules of the Game
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Sep. 23, 2011 Topics: Acceptance, Coming out, Conferences, Gender identity, Gender role, Partners of transgender people, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism Description: Breanna and Ryan are a transgender couple. They speak about Ryan's gradual coming out process and their struggle to stay together despite the stress and unexpected changes related to his transition... -
Trans Oral History: Feminist Legacy
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, O'Brien, Michelle Esther Date: Aug. 28, 2011 Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Feminism, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Lesbian community, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia Description: Michelle O'Brien recounts how transgender activism in the 1980's and 1990's was shaped by the feminist ideals and practices that came before. -
Trans Oral History: Lucky's Story
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Sep. 30, 2011 Topics: Disabilities, Isolation, LGBTI community, Support groups Subject: GenderJUST Description: Lucky M speaks about growing up as a queer person with a disability. -
Trans Oral History: Meeting Lou Sullivan
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Power, Bet, Power, Ben Date: Aug. 27, 2011 Topics: Activists, FtMs, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Passing (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people Subject: East Coast FtM Group, Lou Sullivan Description: Ben Power has been a transgender activist and community historian for more than three decades. He describes the first time he met another FTM--Lou Sullivan, the founder of FTM international--and ho... -
Trans Oral History: Nothing Left to Tuck
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Oct. 12, 2011 Topics: Colleges, Coming out, Finances, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center Description: Elayne discuses her 15-year process of finding community, coming out, and transitioning in LA and Seattle. -
Trans Oral History: On the Stroll
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Aug. 26, 2011 Topics: Crossdressing, Finances, Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender) Description: Shanelle speaks abut her experiences growing up and how she began working the streets of New York. -
Trans Oral History: Sexism as a Trans Man is Tricky
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Pangborn, Alexander Date: Aug. 29, 2011 Topics: Activists, Feminism, FtMs, Gender role, Lesbians, Passing (Gender), Sexism, Sexual orientation, Stereotypes, Transgender people Description: Alexander Pangborn describes his changing relationship to sexism as he's transitioned from being a dyke to passing as a man. -
Trans Oral History: The Courage to Be Who I Am
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Aug. 28, 2011 Topics: Coming out, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender role, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Description: Tori talks about their* process of coming out and what gave them* the strength to claim who they* are. -
Trans Oral History: Then It Happened to Them
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Aug. 27, 2011 Topics: Gay male couples, Gentrification, HIV/AIDS, LGBTI community Description: Louis Mitchell lived in the Castro District of San Francisco during the late 80's and early 90's. He describes the tensions between communities of color and the gay male community during that time,... -
Trans Oral History: Would I Be Denied Shelter?
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Sep. 29, 2011 Topics: Coming out, Discrimination, Gender identity, Intimate partner violence, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia Description: Tina describes a 2 year battle to gain inclusion for trans women at a domestic violence shelter in Southern Indiana. -
Trans Poetry as “Artivism”: An Interview with Rupert Raj
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Oct. 21, 2022 Topics: BIPOC, Poetry--Collections, Transgender activism, Transgender authors, Transgender community, Transgender poetry Description: An interview with trans activist and trailblazer Rupert Raj. In this interview, Raj discusses his international trans poetry anthology, Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual,... -
Tuesday Smillie Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Smille, Tuesday Date: Oct. 11, 2019 Topics: Activists, Animal rights activists, Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Family members, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visual arts, Zines Subject: Adele Carpenter, Ali Forney Center, Kirsten Rossi, Michelle O'Brien, Sergio Rodriguez, Silence of the Lambs, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Ursula K. Le Guin, Wangechi Mutu Description: (Photo of Tuesday and interviewer Michelle). Tuesday Smillie is a visual artist whose work grapples with power and violence. In this interview, Tuesday recounts her coming out in a radical queer yo... -
Twilight People Sound Installation
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: London Metropolitan Archives Creator: Twilight People Date: Feb. 4, 2016 Topics: Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Identity, Religions, Spirituality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) -
Valda Prout Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Prout, Valda Date: Aug. 6, 2016 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Coming out, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay bars, Gender affirming surgery, Hair removal, Homophobia, Hormone therapy (Gender), Police harassment, Police raids, Racism, Segregation, Slurs, Theater, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, West Indian Americans Subject: Agassiz Village, Auntie Mame, Dorothy Mallory, Dr. Risch, George L. Prout, Jacque's, La Belse, Mae Bonds, Paul Robeson, Phil Black, Punch Bowl, Summer Stock, Valda Prout Description: OUTWORDS interview with Valda Prout, conducted by Mason Funk on August 6, 2016 in Washington DC. "Today, Valda lives in a small apartment just north of Logan Circle in Washington DC, a short walk f... -
Violet Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Violet Date: May 10, 2019 Topics: Capitalism, Childhood, Civil rights, Class struggle, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Furry fandom (Subculture), Gender, Gender realignment surgery, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Mental health, Music, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Roleplay, Sexism, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Soundcloud Description: Violet shares her experience of being a musician and DJ in New York’s rave scene while navigating the political landscape of gentrification. Having grown up nomadically with immigrant parents, she ...
