VOLUNTEER INTERVIEWERS NEEDED:
NYPL's Community Oral History Project is teaming up with the NYC Trans Oral History Project to collect, preserve, and share oral histories from our city's transgender and gender non-conforming communities.
We'll be training a community corps of interviewers to collect these largely undocumented oral histories in order to build a lasting and expansive archive on NYC transgender experiences.
Interested in participating as a volunteer interviewer for our community...
VOLUNTEER INTERVIEWERS NEEDED:
NYPL's Community Oral History Project is teaming up with the NYC Trans Oral History Project to collect, preserve, and share oral histories from our city's transgender and gender non-conforming communities.
We'll be training a community corps of interviewers to collect these largely undocumented oral histories in order to build a lasting and expansive archive on NYC transgender experiences.
Interested in participating as a volunteer interviewer for our community-powered project? Sign up for one of our public interviewer training sessions:
Tuesday, August 16th from 6:00 - 8:00pm (Seward Park Branch Library)
Wednesday, September 14th from 6:00 - 8:00pm (Jefferson Market Library)
Please RSVP at: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/08/16/nyc-transgender-oral-history-project
Room location details will be provided in RSVP follow-up.
About the NYPL Community Oral History Project
As our city changes, we need to document, preserve, and celebrate its rich history by collecting stories of people who have experienced it firsthand. The more stories we collect, the more history we’ll uncover and make public for current and future generations. Since November 2013, over 1,000 oral histories have been collected at libraries in communities throughout the city. The NYPL Community Oral History project invites volunteers to record stories from neighbors, friends, and family. Interviews will be preserved at The Milstein Division of US History, Local History and Genealogy and accessible at the New York Public Library website: oralhistory.nypl.org
About the NYC Trans Oral History Project
Inspired by the public history activism of projects like the ACT UP Oral History Project, the New York City Trans Oral History Project is a collective of scholar-activists confronting the historical erasure of transgender people from lesbian and gay histories and politics. Unprecendented visibility and media attention doesn't privilege the experiences of trans people of color or poor, low income, incarcerated, disabled, HIV positive, elderly, or immigrant trans populations. We believe it is critical to build an archive of transgender resistance, resilience, and survival.