Lessons from the Tretter Project
“Documenting Trans Oral History,” an oral history workshop and public talk in December 2022, featured Andrea Jenkins and Myrl Beamfrom the Minneapolis-based Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, a program committed to collecting, preserving, and making available oral histories of gender transgression, broadly understood through a trans framework.
Press coverage: Rowan Liu, “Tabb Center Hosts Speakers to Present on Intricacies of Transgender Oral History,” December 10, 2022
Building Power Through Documenting Trans Oral Histories
Saturday, December 3, 2022
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Bird in Hand Café & Bookstore
Andrea Jenkins and Myrl Beam shared lessons from their work with the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, reflecting on the power of storytelling to help build movements for justice that enable trans lives to flourish.
Doing Trans Oral History: Ethics, Politics, and Community-Building
Saturday, December 3, 2022
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Impact Hub Baltimore
This public workshop, led by Andrea Jenkins and Myrl Beam from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, was a practical introduction to the process of doing oral history.