About Us

The Mission

The Transgender Oral History Project is a collaboration-based resource. Our mission is to promote a diversity of stories from within the transgender and gender variant communities by supporting members of our community who wish to share their stories. We accomplish this through by promoting grassroots media projects, documenting people’s experiences, and teaching media production skills.

The project's guiding principals are to:

• Build community through soliciting and sharing stories
• Encourage multigenerational discussions, especially about community history
• Highlight individuals, communities, and organizations struggling with issues that are not address by mainstream culture
• Portray experiences from the perspective of folks who live them
• Work in ways that reflect a commitment to collaboration, empowerment, and fighting all forms of social oppression

The Network

We are a Network of transgender, gender variant, and allied people who work with folks around the country in order to collect, collaborate on, and share stories from within the transgender and gender non-conforming community.

The Project

The project takes many forms including the website, interactive workshops, in-person exhibits, paper publications, and multimedia publications. It is an umbrella project that incoporates many smaller projects initiated by our collective members as long as the goals allign with our mission.