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  1. Interview Olivia Hnlicka

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hnlicka, Olivia
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Art, Assigned gender, Beauty standards, Butches, Capitalism, Cisgender people, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Femmes, Friendship, Gay community, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Hair, Hair--Removal, Health, Heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ communities, Love, Masculinities, Medical care, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Religions, Sex, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, White LGBTQ+ people, White people
    Subject: About Face Youth Theatre, Annoyance Theatre, Bear Culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coed Prison Sluts, Crusty Girl, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vogue Magazine
    Description: Olivia “Liv” Hnilicka is a white trans woman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing and early life as a queer person, her move to Chicago at the age...
  2. Interview with Ameriah Neal

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Neal, Ameirah
    Date: Dec. 1, 2016
    Topics: Art, Assigned gender, Ball culture, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Child abuse, Colleges, Detention of LGBTQ+ people, Discrimination, Division, Drag, Drug abuse, Employment policies, Etymology, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Intersectionality (Sociology), Language, LGBTQ+ communities, Passing (Gender), Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Politics, Prejudices, Race relations, Sex work, Sexual orientation, Stereotypes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Work
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ameirah Neal is a Black woman from Washington, DC. At the time of this interview she was working as a Peer Ed Coordinator with a nonprofit organization in DC. In this oral history she speaks at len...
  3. Interview with Damion Mendez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mendez, Damion
    Date: Jun. 17, 2017
    Topics: Adoption, Assigned gender, Bullying, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gay men, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hysterectomy, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ death and dying, Masculinities, Medicalisation, Men, Passing (Gender), Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Racism, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Barack Obama, Family Tree Clinic, Human Sexuality Program, Janet Byrstrom, Jendeen Forberg, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Mondo Queer Beach Party, Pamela Anderson, Prince, Pulse Night Club, Roxanne Anderson
    Description: Damion Mendez is a Latino trans masculine identified person from St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Mendez was living in Minnesota. In this oral history Mendez speaks about transra...
  4. Interview with finn schneider

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: schneider, finn
    Date: Aug. 4, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Assigned gender, Body image, Change of name, Clothing, Criminalization, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Education, Educational institutions, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Genderfluid identity, Health care, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Jews, Marriage, Masculinities, Mental health, Middle West, Name, Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Pronoun, Racism, Religion, Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexuality, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender community, Transgender people, Universities, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: finn schneider is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Michigan. At the time of this interview, schneider was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, scheider speaks at length abou...
  5. Interview with Geena Rocero

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rocero, Geena
    Date: Nov. 16, 2016
    Topics: Anthropology, Art, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Celebrities, Contraception, Cultures, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Femmes, Filipino American women, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Health, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Immigration, Indigenous peoples, Lectures, LGBTI rights, LGBTQ+ visibility, Medical care, MtFs, Olympic games, Pageants, Passing (Gender), Photographic models, Poverty, Privilege (Social psychology), Racism, Roman catholicism, Self-acceptance, Sexual harassment, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Asian Pacific Wellness Center, Babaylan, Bakla, Beutiful as I Want to Be, Caitlyn Jenner, Ferdinand Magellan, Gender Proud, Janet Mock, Jazz Jennings, Jeffrey Caliendo, Lauren Foster, Mahu, Papuan, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Geena Rocero is a Filipino trans woman and supermodel from Makati City in the Philippines. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, her career as a model and founder of the prod...
  6. Interview with Gradylee Shapiro

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Shapiro, Gradylee
    Date: Jan. 17, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bisexuality, Bullying, Butches, Classism, Clothing, Coming out, Community life, Dating, Death and dying, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Mental disorders, Mental health, Ovariectomy, Passing (Gender), Poor, Racism, Schools, Social movements, Social privilege, Soft butches, Swindlers and swindling, Testosterone, Transitioning (Gender), Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: District 202, Ethan Laubach, Gender Blur, GLBT Youth Organization, Prism, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white m...
  7. Interview with Ignacio Rivera

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rivera, Ignacio
    Date: Nov. 7, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Androgyny, Art, Artists, Assigned gender, Black people--Race identity, Bullying, Children of transgender people, Coming out, Discrimination, Education, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Gender-affirming care, Heteronormativity, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Indigenous peoples, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Masculinities, Mental health, Misogyny, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Parenthood, Passing (Gender), Police, Polyamory, Race, Racism, Sex, Social privilege, Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-Spirit people, Work, Writers
    Subject: Amanda Rivera, New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Project, Poly Patao Productions, This Bridge Called My Back, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ignacio Rivera is a Black-Boricua-Taíno transgender Two-Spirit person from Brooklyn. At the time of this interview, Rivera was working as an Educator, Activist, and Performer based out of New York....
  8. Interview with Isabelle Wedin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wedin, Isabelle
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Androgyny, Anxiety, Assigned gender, Biotechnology, Bisexuals, Bullying, Children, Coming out, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Employment discrimination, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Indigenous peoples, Intersex, Law, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Plays, Police, Racially mixed people, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Social justice, Spironolactone, Support groups, Swimwear, Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-spirit people, Volunteering
    Subject: Alliance Defending Freedom, Allina Health Systems, Avery Edison, Catherine Graffam, Free CeCe, Google Hangouts, Informational Technology, Julia Serano, June Taylor, MetaFilter, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed i...
  9. Interview with Julienne Brown (Mizz June)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Brown, Julienne (Mizz June)
    Date: May 6, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Allies, Art, Atlantic Coast (North America), Bullying, Celebrities, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Community life, Creative ability, Creative activities and seat work, Dating, Education, Femininities, Film, Friendship, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labelling, LGBTI community, Love, Migration, Passing (Gender), Passing (Identity), Race, Religion, Representation, Role behavior, Schools, Sex, Sexism, Sexual identity, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transphobia, Visibility
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP), FIERCE, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Julienne Brown, also known as “Mizz June”, is a Black trans woman raised in New York. At the time of this oral history, Brown was working as a musician and an actor. In this oral history she speaks...
  10. Interview with June Taylor

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Taylor, June
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Celebrities, Change of name, Children, Coming out, Communication, Community life, Conservatives, Cosmetics, Counseling, Couples therapy, Discrimination, Drag performance, Drugs, Electrolysis, Estradiol, Estrogen, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, Legislation, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Love, Marriage, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Passing (Identity) in literature, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Sex, Sexism, Therapeutics, Transgender people, Transvestism
    Subject: Trans Commission, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a ...
  11. Interview with Meredeth Vezina

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Vezina, Meredith
    Date: Jan. 13, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Baseball, Cheerleaders, Contraception, Cosmetics, Divorce, Drag queens, Endocrinology, Femininities, Football, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Military, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Psychiatry, Shame, Sports, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Wars
    Subject: Cuyamaca Woods, Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Marsha P. Johnson, Michele Bachmann, National Organization for Women (NOW), Silvia Rivera, Stonewall 25, Tracy O'Brien, Traditions Military Video Business, Trans Elders, Trans Narratives, University of California San Diego, University of California San Diego Gender Program, University of Vermont, Vietnam War Veteran Interviews
    Description: Meredith Vezina is a white trans woman who was born in Berlin, NH and grew up in Long Island is based, at the time of this interview, in San Diego, CA. In this oral history she describes coming to ...
  12. Interview with Micky Bradford

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Bradford, Micky
    Date: Oct. 4, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, African American transgender people, Androgyny (Psychology), Assigned gender, Coming out, Dating, Drag, Families, Femininities, Feminism, Gender diversity, Health facilities, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Lesbian community, Medical interventions, Migration, Military, Passing (Gender), Prisons and race relations, Racism, Self-care, Health, Social advocacy, Support groups, Transgender people
    Subject: Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOC), Transgender Law Center
    Description: Micky Bradford is a Black queer non-binary trans woman based in Atlanta who co-founded and organized the Southern Fried Queer Pride Festival. At the time of this interview, she was an organizer wit...
  13. Interview With Paulina Angel

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Angel, Paulina
    Date: Dec. 8, 2016
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Families, Family relationships, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hispanic Americans, Hormone therapy, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ communities, Linguistics, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Music, Online social networks, Passing (Gender), Politics, Pronoun, Role behavior, Self medication, Self-acceptance, Social advocacy, Social movements, Transgender community, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Work
    Subject: Fair Education Act, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), The Student Senate for California Community Colleges, Transgender Educational Resources, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Paulina Angel is a Hispanic trans woman from Indio, California. At the time of this interview, Angel was working as the Executive Director of the Transgender Community Project. In this interview sh...
  14. Interview with Rachel Schroeder

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Schroeder, Rachel
    Date: Feb. 23, 2016
    Topics: Anxiety, Bisexual identity, Bisexuality, Body building, Celebrities, Child custody, Children, Community life, Counseling, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Intolerance, Lesbian identity, Love, Marriage, Medication, Middle West, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Passing (Identity) in literature, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sex, Social exclusion, Symbolic representation, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Visibility, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Janitorial Company, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Rachel Schroeder is a white trans woman from Burnsville, Minnesota. She discusses how her desire and her decision to transition impacted her relationships, and the importance of being correctly gen...
  15. Interview with Raquel Willis

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Willis, Raquel
    Date: Jun. 7, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Art, Assigned gender, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Coming out, Counseling, Dating, Drag, Drag kings, Family members, Family relationships, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, LGBTQ+ activism, Love, Masculinities, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Queer people, Race, Religions, Religious texts, Role behavior, Sex, Sexism, Social movements, Southern States, Sports, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: Black Girl Dangerous, RuPaul, Trans Advocacy Organization, Transgender Law Center, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Raquel Willis is a Black trans woman from Augusta, Georgia. At the time of this interview Willis was living in Oakland, CA. She is a writer, activist, and media maker, and, starting in 2018, the Ex...