Digital Transgender Archive

Elise van der Merwe Collection

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Elise van der Merwe is a MTF transgendered person, who told her story in the Afrikaans media in 1982 (series A). Elise received many letters from individuals who read her story, and these letters and her written responses comprise series B. Some of these letters were from other transgender people and in one instance was accompanied by photographs (part of the reason for the confidentiality form users must sign). Elise lodged the material in this collection with a publisher with the intention of publishing a never completed memoir. The bulk of the records are in Afrikaans.

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Item Information:

Identifier
fb494865z
Collection
Discovery Resources
Institution
Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
Contributor(s)
Manion, Anthony
Chernis, Linda
Publisher
Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
Date Created
Nov. 2005
Dates Covered
1982 to 1983
Genre
Finding Aids
Subject(s)
Elise van der Merwe
Places
Western Cape > West Coast District Municipality > Matzikama > South Africa
Namibia
Topic(s)
Letters
Military
MtFs
Photographs
Transgender people
Resource Type
Text
Language
English
Rights
Copyright undetermined
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