Transgender people

Trans Sistas of Color Project Records

kschmeling — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:10:47 -0400

The Trans Sistas of Color Project is an organization based out of the Detroit area. Its mission centers on creating a safe space for those within the transgender community, particularly within the African American communities across the city.

Guest Post: Ciera Casteel on the Wayne State University Oral History Course Oral Histories

aorchard — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:05:31 -0400

Please note: The oral history course collections mentioned in this post have been consolidated into one collection: Wayne State University Oral History Methodology Course Oral Histories. Please refer to the finding aid here: https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/3381.

Over the course of the last few months I had the opportunity to work at the Reuther Library processing oral history collections. This was an incredible experience through which I was able to create tools to increase researchers' access to four relatively new collections: the Wayne State University Oral History Course Oral Histories. These four collections are a treasure for researchers studying a number of topics. read more »

This Union Cause: The Queer History of the United Automobile Workers

teller — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:54:57 -0400

Wayne State history PhD candidate James McQuaid discusses his research on the gradual cognizance and acceptance of queer autoworkers in the twentieth century, leading toward the UAW’s rapid embrace of LGBTQ-friendly policies and initiatives in the 1990s. read more »