Interview with Ellie Krug

An interview with Ellie Krug, a white trans woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, family, and relationships, her memoirs and experiences of transition, her thoughts on trans representation and visibility and representation, and her work in legal services. Specifically, Krug discusses coming of age "before Stonewall," her memoir Getting to Ellen, her thoughts on trans actors and representation in popular media, and her co-founding of Call for Justice, a legal services nonprofit serving low-income clients in Minneapolis.

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Identifier: 73666486b
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Krug, Ellie
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Dec. 15, 2015
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Call for Justice
Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Iowa > Linn > City of Cedar Rapids > Cedar Rapids
Topic(s): Gender affirming surgery
LGBTQ+ activism
LGBTQ+ actors
LGBTQ+ families
LGBTQ+ people with addictions
Trans women
Transitioning (Gender)
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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