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Comment: The sources don't quite show enough for a standalong article, but I'd encourage you to merge into a the existing Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies article (or find some more sources). qcne (talk) 22:03, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
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| Tretter Transgender Oral History Project | |
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| Location | Elmer L. Andersen Library, Suite, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Established | 2015 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project is a digital community archive dedicated to preserving transgender life histories in the United States. Based in the University of Minnesota, the TTHOP is a part of The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.[1] The interviews are available in English, and access to the recordings and transcripts is public and free.
The TTHOP was founded in 2015 by Andrea Jenkins who sought to shift the public conversation around trans people by documenting their lived experiences.[2] Together, the oral histories fill in gaps of the wider Tretter Collection, which contains extensive materials on white cisgender gay men but little on trans people, especially trans people of color.[3] The TTHOP contains over two hundred recordings of in-person and virtual interviews with trans individuals, making it one of the largest trans archives in the world.
Mission
editThe TTHOP's mission statement reads as follows: "The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP) is committed to collecting, preserving, and making available oral histories of gender transgression, broadly understood through a trans framework."[4]
Collections
editPhase 1 interviews
editThe TTHOP's phase 1 was led by Andrea Jenkins, who also served as the interviewer for nearly all the conversations. 175 in-person interviews were conducted from 2015 to 2018. This phase was centered on trans and gender nonconforming people residing in the upper Midwest and with a focus on those most erased from historical memory, including trans people of color and trans elders.[5]
The interview questions were mainly interested in the personal lives and gender transition journeys of the trans individuals. Frequent themes that emerge include:
- Transphobia
- Racialization and racism
- Work and education
- Gender affirming care and health care more broadly
- Criminalization and the legal system
- Immigration
- Childhood and upbringing
- Coming out
- Family
- Art and creative work
- Activism and political dreams
- Sex and love
- Spirituality and religion
Famous individuals featured include CeCe McDonald, Laverne Cox, Aidan Key, Eli Clare, Tiq Milan, and more.
Phase 2 interviews
editThe TTHOP's phase 2 was led by Myrl Beam, and it was conducted from 2019 to 2021. This collection of 68 interviews focuses on the stories of trans activists. Documenting the "transformative power of trans movements," this phase is "grounded in the belief that trans movements for justice are about more than rights: they are about survival, and about creating a new, more fabulous, more livable, and more expansive world––one not structured by racialized gender norms."[6]
With an explicitly political focus, the second phase mainly asks interviewees to connect their personal life experiences with trans politics and other social movements. Frequent themes that emerge include:
- Black trans feminisms and transmisogynoir
- Trans liberation and political dreams
- Trans visibility
- Trans death and remembrance
- Black Lives Matter uprisings of summer 2020 and beyond
- Anti-Blackness and racism
- The first presidency of Donald Trump
- Non-profit industrial complex
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Famous individuals interviewed include Dean Spade, Marci Bowers, Masen Davis, and more.
Funding
editThe TTHOP is largely funded by the Tawani Foundation. Other funders include the Headwaters Foundation for Justice Community Innovation Grant, the Humanities Innovation Lab at the Minnesota Humanities Center, and individual d÷onors.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ “The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.” University of Minnesota Libraries. Accessed November 18, 2024. https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/tretter.
- ^ Golden, Erin. “Former Minneapolis Council Aide Brings Transgender Issues to the Forefront.” Star Tribune, April 27, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160408204635/http://www.startribune.com/former-mpls-council-aide-brings-transgender-issues-to-the-forefront/301372761/.
- ^ Vecoli, Lisa. “The Tretter Collection: What We Have, What’s Missing, and the Challenges of Trans History.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 607–13. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3151529.
- ^ “The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project.” University of Minnesota Libraries. Accessed November 17, 2024. https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/tretter/transgender-oral-history-project.
- ^ “The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project.”
- ^ “The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project.”
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