India has made transformative changes in its transgender laws in recent years which have started the process of social change. But only just.
by Harpal Singh
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Photo courtesy: Vijay S. Jodha
My Time Working with the Tenement Museum
“Perfect Strangers” by Vik Muniz. Muniz wanted to show normal people you see on the subway that you remember distinctly, but regard as a stranger. This image of a couple is said to be the first permanent LGBT public art in all of New York. It is located at 72nd Street Station.
In this post, Desmond Austin-Miller, a graduate of Columbia University’s Oral History MA Program describes lessons learned through his time interning at the Tenement Museum during the Fall of 2017 and Spring of 2018.
Read MoreFrom Individual Experience to Political Expression: A Discussion of How Specific Experiences Are Presented in Movements
In this post, current OHMA student Monica Liuting (2016) reflects how Terrell Frazier uses oral history interviews to frame personal experiences in political expressions. This article is the last in a four-part series exploring Terrell’s recent OHMA Workshop Series lecture, “Becoming an Organizer: Narrative, Identity and Social Action.”
Read MoreReconsidering the Narrative: Intersectional Identities and Community Organizing
In this piece, Nialah Edari discusses how Terrell Frazier’s work contrasts the ways in which we contextualize sociology and oral history by looking at how he applies both approaches in his assessment of the participants within his research. This article is the last in a three-part series exploring Terrell’s recent OHMA Workshop Series lecture, “Becoming an Organizer: Narrative, Identity and Social Action.”
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