Interview with Lynn Conway

Description:

Lynn talks about her life history from her 1968 firing from IBM, to her outing and activism in the early 2000's, as well as her enormously successful online website and organizing.Narrator Name: Lynn Conway. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: She.

Subjects:

Activism; Technology; IBM; Engineering; Facial feminization Surgery; Internet; Silicon chip; Michael Bailey; Harry Benjamin; Website; Academia; Blog; STEM

Subjects Facet:

Conway, Lynn

Publisher:

Transgender Archives; TheArquives

Contributors:

Conway, Lynn; Devor, Aaron; Taylor, Evan; Brown, Elspeth

Date:

2020-02-04

Genre:

transcripts; video recordings (physical artifacts); oral histories (literary works)

Language:

eng

Rights:

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0); Unless otherwise specified, this material is made available on this site for non-commercial purposes only. All other uses require permission of the copyright holder.

Provenance:

University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection:

Trans Activism Oral History Project

Location(s):

New York (State); Michigan; 40.71427, -74.00597; 44.25029, -85.50033

Coverage-Temporal:

1938/2020

Date Digitized:

2020-02-04