Digital Transgender Archive
Kim Watson Oral History
Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of homelessness in New York and time in the West Village drag scene, overcoming drug addiction and turn towards her work in trans advocacy. She also discusses being a parent, and the conflict between trans leaders.
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- 3197xm259
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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NYC Trans Oral History Project
- Creator(s)
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Watson, Kim
- Contributor(s)
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O'Brien, Michelle Esther
- Publisher
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New York Public Library
- Date Created
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Jun. 18, 2019
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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ACT UP
Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC)
AIDS WATCH
Bright Point
Bronx Lebanon
Carmen Vasquez
Community Kinship Life (CK Life)
Empire [State] Pride Agenda
Escuelitas
HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG)
Marti Adult Day Program
Odyssey House
Philadelphia Trans Health Conference
Pose
RuPaul's Drag Race
Stonewall
The Modern-Day Woman
The Monster
Two Potatoes
- Places
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New York
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Albany County
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City of Albany
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Albany
New York
Barbados
- Topic(s)
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Activists
Adoptive parents
AIDS activists
AIDS organizations
Childhood
Drag community
Drag queens
Family members
Gender
Health care
HIV-positive people
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness
Hormones
Intersex
LGBTI community
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Mental health
Parenthood
Psychiatry
Social service organisations
Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
Transgender community
Transitioning (Gender)
Writers
- Resource Type
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Audio
Text
- Language
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English
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