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Title: Amelie Zurn Interview Part 1, June 8, 2021
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Amelie Zurn; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett interviews Amelie Zurn. Their conversation begins with Amelie discussing how she donated a large number of her papers from OUT! (Oppression Under Target) to the American University Archive. She then explains how she got involved with OUT! after volunteering with organizations such as Whitman Walker, National Organization for Women, and the Rape Crisis Hotline. Amelie talks more about her time with OUT!, including actions, other members, organizing tactics, and partnerships with other groups. Audrey also asks for more details about Amelie's work at and the evolution of Whitman Walker clinic. The interview then transitions to a discussion about feminist health practices and activism within AIDS organizing.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Oppression Under Target (OUT!); Whitman Walker; ACT UP; Black Lives Matter; Lesbian Health Services; Take Back the Night; National Organization for Women (NOW); Bowers v. Hardwick; 1987 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights; disability justice; gay and lesbian organizing; Washington Blade; Ryan White Care Act; memorial actions; Washington Peace Center; abolitionist organizing; DC Council; Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); Clinton administration; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Immigrant Rights Movement; Webster v. Reproductive Health Services; reproductive rights; feminist health practices; mutual aid; transmasculine
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3263
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Title: Amelie Zurn Interview Part 2, June 8, 2021
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Amelie Zurn; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett completes part 2 of her interview with Amelie Zurn. Their conversation picks up with Amelie continuing to discuss working with Whitman Walker. She identifies challenges in building support for and acknowledging the affects of grief on people involved in the movement. Audrey then asks Amelie about how her previous work with OUT! and Whitman Walker inform her present-day work and life.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Oppression Under Target (OUT!); Whitman Walker; ACT UP; Black Lives Matter; Lesbian Health Day; caregiving; cancer; grief; Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer; disability justice; Susan Hester; Reagan Administration; Bush Administration; state-sanctioned violence; Black lesbians; AIDS Memorial Quilt; Sharon Kowalksi; Karen Thompson; Jerry Green; City Hall; Sharon Bottoms; lesbian parents; social work; Jamie Grant; gender and sexuality; trauma
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3265
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Title: Barbara Lewis Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Barbara Lewis
Description: Barbara Lewis, Physician Assistant at Whitman-Walker Health, reflects on her experiences working and advocating for LGBTQ+ health. She talks about working at Whitman-Walker for 40 years, and remembers founding the first lesbian health clinic in 1979. She remembers promoting safe sex, and talking about safe sex between women in particular in the 90s. She defines safe sex as protecting yourself against giving/recieving an STI. Barbara reflects on her first time learning about AIDS at Whitman-Walker in 1981, and chronicles the steps the clinic has taken since. She hopes the next generation will take charge of their health and bodies, including practicing safe sex.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); Barriers for safer sex; HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; LGBTQ activism; Safe sex; Sex education; STIs (sexually transmitted infections); Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV; Bacterial vaginosis; HPV (human papillomavirus); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power); AIDS buyers clubs
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1991
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material