Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Tona Brown
Tona Brown is a world class, world renowned mezzo – soprano violinist. In this oral history, she shares her experience about growing up with an awareness of her gendered difference in Norfolk, VA, and coming out as a transgender woman, with a very supportive mother and aunts. Brown details some of the issues with being out as a transgender person in the field of classical music and many of the politics that she has had to deal with. She also discusses her hopes for the transgender community today and worries that there is potential for trans people to be exploited by the media as more attention is placed on the transgender community.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- th83kz61j
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
Brown, Tona
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Sep. 22, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Carnegie Hall
Tona Brown
- Places
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Virginia
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City of Alexandria
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Alexandria
Virginia > City of Norfolk > Norfolk
- Topic(s)
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Classical music
Counseling
Entertainers
Family members
Hormones
MtFs
Parents of transgender people
Transgender people
Violinists
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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