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"Word of Mouth" How The Trans+ Community Found Itself

Interview with Ben Power Alwin


Description:
Ben talks about his politics, his history of activism, and specifically about the creation and legacy of the Sexual Minorities Archives.Narrator Name: Ben Power Alwin. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: He. Other Names or Pronouns: Bet Power; Ben Power.
Subjects:
Education; History; ONE archives; Sexuality; Anti-classism; Archiving; Knowledge; Feminism; Anti-racism; Political Activism; Leslie Fienberg; Activism; Community
Subjects Facet:
Power Alwin, Ben
Publisher:
Transgender Archives; TheArquives
Contributors:
Devor, Aaron; Power Alwin, Ben; Taylor, Evan; Brown, Elspeth
Date:
2020-02-18
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):
Massachusetts--Holyoke;Illinois--Chicago; 42.20426, -72.6162; 41.85003, -87.65005
Coverage-Temporal:
1968/2020
Date Digitized:
2020-02-18
Commentary:
PDF; mp4; vtt. Original recording using Zoom platform.
Geographic Coordinates:
42.20426, -72.6162;41.85003, -87.65005
Exhibit Tags:
Ben Power AlwinOral History