NYC Trans Oral History Project

Lauren Simkin Berke describes their work as an illustrator, animator, artist, and zine creator based in Brooklyn, NY. They walk us through growing up in an unconventional primary school setting, findi...

14 Sep 20212h 34min

Evan is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose photo-work primarily touches upon issues of gender and identity, and in this interview he describes his perception of his own intersectional identity. Origi...

14 Sep 20212h 5min

Ky Platt is a mixed-race, transgender comedian and author. Originally from Hamilton, Ohio, Ky has been active in the NYC LGBTQ+ community since the 1990s. In this interview, Ky recounts his experience...

14 Sep 202152min

Grace Detrevarah was born in Detroit, Michigan to an automobile industry family and moved to New York City as a teenager. In this interview, she discusses running away and the drag queens and trans wo...

14 Sep 20211h 8min

Elsie grew up middle class in the Midwest where the church was a big presence in her life. Though she encountered a progressiveness in various ways within the religious communities she was part of her...

14 Sep 20211h 47min

Simon Chartrand describes his experience growing up in upstate New York, being outed to family, living with chronic pain and navigating healthcare as a trans person. Simon discusses the long process o...

14 Sep 20212h 38min

Eli Oberman—one of, if not the first, trans-identified students at Eugene Lang— talks about coming out as one of two very different trans children to a family of feminists, misogyny in transmasculine ...

14 Sep 20211h 38min

Alyssa Pariah recounts her difficult childhood in New Jersey, her involvement in trans women of color and sex worker communities in New York, and her radicalization as a revolutionary socialist. She b...

14 Sep 20212h 40min