RU73: NYC Trans Oral History Project with Michelle O'Brien & Nico Fuentes

This episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast welcomes Michelle O'Brien and Nico Fuentes of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library. The NYC TOHP works to confront the erasure of trans lives and to record diverse histories of gender as intersecting with race and racism, poverty, dis/ability, aging, housing migration, sexism, and the AIDS crisis. http://oralhistory.nypl.org/neighborhoods/trans-history https://www.nyctransoralhistory.org Michelle Esther O’Brien is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University. She is currently conducting dissertation research on LGBTQ social movements in New York City. Michelle also works as a Community Oral History Coordinator at the New York Public Library, where she helps lead the New York City Trans Oral History Project. The Project is gathering a growing online archive of personal oral histories from trans New Yorkers. Michelle received her Masters of Social Work from the Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY. She spent several years working in HIV/AIDS service agencies, as a community organizer, support group facilitator and case worker. She served as the Executive Director of Housing Here and Now coalition of tenant rights organizations in New York City. https://www.michelleestherobrien.com Nico Fuentes is a rank and file organizer, sex shop worker, listener and sometimes speaker. She is interested in trans political organizing, difference, and bridging class and identity politics. She most recently completed a two year contract campaign at the Pleasure Chest NY and is looking forward to continuing to work with the New York Trans Oral History Project as an interviewer. Interview with Cecilia Gentili by Michelle O'Brien: http://oralhistory.nypl.org/interviews/cecilia-gentili-4cpt6d Interview with oni lem by Nico Fuentes: http://oralhistory.nypl.org/interviews/oni-lem-eku9c2 Suzanne Snider is a writer, documentarian, and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. https://www.oralhistorysummerschool.com William Alanson White Institute is mentioned in this episode: http://www.wawhite.org You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for free-lancers, creatives and students, as well as those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not have access to psychoanalytic treatment in their area. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious is a podcast hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, wherein she interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, creative arts therapists, social workers, artists, poets, writers, scholars and other clinicians and intellectuals about their process, work, current events, activism, mental health care, diverse theoretical lenses and various worldviews. Episodes also include lectures given and recorded at various events hosted internationally. http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019). Also available via Kindle and iBook. https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is "This is New York" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album "Cut to Fit the Mouth" available from Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/details/00081 https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/cut-to-fit-the-mouth Photo of Marsha P. Johnson pulled from https://www.nyctransoralhistory.org/contact