NYC Trans Oral History Project

From Long Island, New York, Quito Ziegler was shaped by their childhood experiences in a Jewish family and community, becoming interested in non-violence. They went to college in Minnesota to pursue a...

14 Sep 20211h 38min

Kamryn Wolf was one of the union members and supporters who helped win a union contract at Babeland, a NYC sex toy store. In this interview, Kamryn discusses their suburban growing up and alienation a...

14 Sep 20212h 14min

Andrea Long Chu is an emerging trans intellectual, writing on the politics of gender and desire. In this interview she recounts her growing up to a devoted Christian family in North Carolina, attendin...

14 Sep 20212h 29min

Sindell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up as a child performer who got to travel the world as part of the Philadelphia Boys’ Choir. She attended the Philadelphia High School of Perfor...

14 Sep 20211h 59min

Sophie Cadle was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Washington Heights. In this interview, she talks about growing up "fast" in New York City, where she explored the underground LGBT communi...

14 Sep 20211h 56min

Interview of Akasha Barker by NYC Trans Oral History Project

14 Sep 20212h 51min

Aelita Parizek was born in Kansas, and grew up in Hawai’i. At age 18, they moved to New York and went to college at Parsons, and later Rhode Island School of Designs. Aelita currently runs a “self mad...

14 Sep 20211h

Son Kit is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator who currently holds degrees in both Visual Art and Literary Arts from Brown University. They reflect on their experience growing up in Koreatown, Los Ang...

14 Sep 20211h 15min