In collaboration with TOHP, Cortico’s Local Voices Network (LVN), and the New York City Departnment of Health and Mental Hygene, two discussions were held virutally to create a space for community members to listen and learn about each others...
Organized as part of the NYC Trans Oral History Project’s residency at Wendy’s Subway, this panel works to document the vital mutual aid work of Black trans activists who must create their own structures of community support. In this...
TOHP’s Michelle O’Brien and Nico Fuentes were featured as guests of the Rendering Unconscious podcast hosted by Vanessa Sinclair. This episode discussed the importance of a community driven archive, methodologies of oral histories, preserving...
We are pleased to kick off our Oral History Summer School video series with this first interview between Michelle O'Brien and Suzanne Snider, discussing the NYC Trans Oral History Project, March 31, 2020. In this interview, Michelle discusses how...
Kiara St. James, AJ Lewis, Nadia Awad and Michelle Esther O’Brien make up this panel on the participatory NYC Trans Oral History Project hosted at the NYPL. Speakers will discuss the role of story-telling and personal narrative in queer movements...
Before We Were Trans was a panel and discussion on NYC trans history, featuring speakers Kiara St. James, Tanya Asapansa Johnson Walker, and Nicole Bowles, all long-standing trans movement organizers and trans women of color, and leaders in the New...
JAY TOOLE’S WALKING TOUR OF QUEER GREENWICH VILLAGE leads audiences and community members on a exploration of the historic West Village in New York, highlighting the significant places along the way while sharing personal stories, tangled into...
Presented in collaboration Visual AIDS and the NYC Trans Oral History Project, AGING FIERCELY WHILE TRANS was a conversation centered around the lives and stories of four gender non-conforming folks who have aged resiliently: Kate Bornstein, Sheila...
