Andre Perez
Andre Perez is a transgender community organizer and youth media worker living in Chicago. He received his BA after studying transgender community and alternative media production at Marlboro College. In addition to being the founder of the Transgender Oral History Project, he is an Event Coordinator for Genderqueer Chicago. Andre facilitates discussions on a variety of themes related to the trans community and presents workshops on DIY media skills at colleges, community centers, and conferences. He is currently working on an anthology about trans masculinity and sexuality. Contact him about any of these projects
Molik Harvey
Having never picked up a camera before, Molik approached the Leeway Foundation to ask for funds for a camera to film his transition. Two years later, presented a one hour autobigraphical video journal st the Allied Media Conference in a workshop about Transgender Identity in Independent Media. His video cronicles the first nine months of his experience as an HIV-positive female-to-male (FTM) transgender person initiating testosterone therapy. Molik's goal is for the video to help fill the vaccum of positive images of of black-trans culture and imagery, and become a platform for change, challanging assumptions, and raising consciousness about how we think about gender identity.
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If you are interested in contributing your own interviews to the collection, visit the participate page or contact me at cperez@marlboro.edu.
Interviewees
Louis Michelle
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Louis spent fifteen years living in San Francisco in the eighties and early nineties. During that period, he co-founded LAGADDA (Lesbians and Gays of African Decent for Democratic Action) and worked with the Conexus Woman's Center. He currently runs an AIDS program targeted toward the African American community in Western Massachusetts, and is in training to become a pastor.
Michelle O’brien
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Michelle has done work advocating for shelter reform, the establishment of free clinics, and access to social services for transwomen in Pennsylvania. Michelle currently lives and works in New York, where she has spent some time on the board of the Silvia Rivera Law Project. More recently, she has committed her time to organizing people living with AIDS and low-income people fighting the city's ongoing gentrification.
Alexander Pangborn
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Alexander has been in transition for 10+ years, and has been active within the Queer community for over 15 years. He is a self-identified genderqueer transman. Alexander has spoken at various colleges, universities and groups about his experiences as a transgender person, as well as his work with transgender youth. He was co-founder of the Kitsap County LGBT youth group, and the SeaBoyz social and online forum in Seattle. In his "free time," Alexander runs an online forum for the western Massachusetts trans community, provides trainings and consultations for local organizations, and serves as Director of TAEO (Transgender Advocacy, Education and Outreach) for HeartStrong.
Bet Power
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From the women's movement to the anti-war movement during Vietnam, Bet has been involved in struggles for political and social change for the last forty ears. He's led the East Coast FTM support group for fifteen years and counting. A pillar of the Western Massachusetts trans community, he curates the Sexual Minorities Archives and was a core organizer of the New England Transgender Pride March in 2008.
You are welcome to contact Bet in order to learn more about the Sexual Minorities Archives and the East Coast FTM group or to donate to either of these projects at betpower@yahoo.com
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