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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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Ben Smith Interview, November 19, 2020
Date: November 19, 2020
Creator: Mia Owens; Person responsible unknown
Description: Ben Smith speaks about his experiences growing up in New York City as a Chinese adoptee. He talks about growing up with two dads and the impact that living in a diverse community has had on his life. Ben also discusses his interests in community building, his YouTube channel Becoming Ben Smith, and his perceptions of his identity as a Chinese adoptee.
Subject: adoption; adoptee; community; parents; China; Chinese culture; Asian; American
Country: United States
Collection: Chinese Adoption Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2526
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Blaine Smith Interview, 08 April 2019
Date: 2019-04-08
Creator: Smith, Blaine; Hentzen, Hana; Zurn, Perry
Subject: Cisgender people; Classroom environment; College environment -- LGBTQ; Gender neutral toilet facilities; Low-income parents; Medical care; Sexual orientation; Sociology; Testosterone; Transgender college students
Local Identifier: AU_Trans_Oral_History_Smith
Collection: American University Trans Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:83277
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Bryan B Interview, May 16, 2020
Date: May 16, 2020
Creator: Bryan B; Dan Kerr
Description: Bryan B., a PhD student at American University, shares how COVID has impacted his life. He talks about moving back in with his parents, and how it's nice to spend time with them, but he needs to be careful since his father has cancer. He discusses how the virus has impacted his social justice work, and reflects on how everyone's experience during this time is different and reflects how power and privilege work in our society. He shares how COVID-19 is the filter that reveals how we are currently fractured, and relates to the systematic devaluing of black, brown, Asian, and female bodies. Bryan talks about how the work of DC journalist Reginald Black has kept him going, and gives him hope that there are people we can support. Finally, he hopes that this can be the moment that healthcare for all becomes a thing we can all agree on. He believes that if we can't agree on that in this time, our country is a failed state. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Braddock Heights, MD; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; American University; student; graduate school; Humanities Truck; parents; family; cancer; social justice; inequality; power; privilege; Washington DC; journalism; Reginald Black; healthcare; universal healthcare
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2146
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Craig Lustig Interview Part 2, April 29, 2021
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Craig Lustig; Audrey Barnett
Description: In part 2 of their interview, Craig Lustig continues describing his time and frustrations as a cancer treatment patient and how that informed his caregiving to people with HIV. Audrey then asks him to compare the availability and types of HIV treatment and support available between New York and DC. The conversation then moves to a comparison of Craig's early and present-day work as a caregiving professional. Lastly, Craig describes how he and his partner became foster parents.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; New York City; AIDS treatment; caregiving; cancer treatment; AIDS treatment; National Institutes of Health; Reagan Administration; healthcare; healthcare access; chronic illness; activism; foster system; foster parent; adoption; LGBT; LGBT youth
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3257
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Kelcy Interview, October 9, 2020
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Kelcy; Adrienne Pine
Description: Kelcy is a transfer student at American University, currently a third-year anthropology major. COVID has had affected her in a number of ways, one of those being the death of a family member. Additionally, Kelcy had to move back in with her mom instead of moving to DC, and she hasn't seen her dad in over a year because of restrictions on international flights. Despite these challenges, Kelcy credits her parents with getting her through the crisis, as well as her partner. Her goal of getting into law school has helped her to stay motivated in school. She hopes that people grow to understand the importance of community from this pandemic, especially because the government is not providing needed support. Ideally, she says the government should listen more to people and offer free access to treatment and testing. Finally, she hopes that society moves away from capitalism, which has shown itself to be unsustainable.
Subject: COVID-19; pandemic; American University; family; parents; death; education; community; capitalism; government
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2269
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Nicole Williams Interview, November 10, 2020
Date: November 10, 2020
Creator: Nicole Williams; Alexis Zilen
Description: The idea of a “new normal” has become common rhetoric within the United States as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This new normal includes not only updated health consciousness but larger structural transformations in economics and politics. This project will focus on a few microcosms of transformation; the rise of unemployment and the impact of the creative arts, and the effects of mental health during the ongoing pandemic. Overall, Alexis Zilen's interview with Nicole Williams will provide insight into the new normal and the transformation of American creative culture during the pandemic. This interview was completed virtually.
Subject: Cherry Hill, NJ; divorced parents; Cherry Hill High School; mental health; Ithaca, NY; coping mechanism; escape; Seattle, WA; summer camp; nanny; social media; quarantine; mental illness; therapy; community college; COVID-19; Coronavirus; pandemic; unemployment; writing
Country: United States
Collection: Constructing the New Normal: Creative Arts in the Wake of COVID-19
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2525
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Robbie Robinson Interview, October 23, 2020
Date: Sajel Swartz
Creator: Reverend Robbie Robinson; Sajel Swartz
Description: The overall objective is to create a deeper understanding of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the Summer of 2020 through the lens of modern Christian practices and ideals, with the hope of better understanding the motivations of those involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement and to evaluate the connection between religion, politics, and human rights. It should be noted that this interview took place in the year 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic with a remote interview process. The interview took place shortly before a contentious presidential election, and discusses a highly politicized social movement that (as of October 2020) peaked in the Summer of 2020.
Subject: Faith; God; Black Lives Matter; Racism; Family; Community; Parents; Chicago, IL; Union Pier, MI; Church; Pastor; Wheaton Bible College; Mayor Richard M. Daley; Good Mourning America; George Floyd; Protest
Country: United States
Collection: Black Lives Matter and the Christian Faith Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2499
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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