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Title: Ron Swanda Interview Part 1, April 11, 2021
Date: April 11, 2021
Creator: Ron Swanda; Audrey Barnett
Description: Ron Swanda speaks with Audrey Barnett about his experiences during the early years of AIDS in DC, getting diagnosed with HIV in 1989, and his decision to focus his HIV advocacy around personal rather than political issues. Ron also discusses his roles at and reasons for patronizing the Metropolitan Community Church, as well as other notable LGBTQ-related organizations and advocacy groups in DC and how DC LGBTQ life has changed over time.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Whitman Walker; caretaking; Air Force; Washington Blade; Ray Engebretsen; activism; Metropolitan Community Church; AZT; LGBT; DC Center for the LGBT Community; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Lisa Keen; federal airman; Medicare; Affordable Care Act; Ryan White Planning Council; Larry Uhrig; Washington Post; P Street Beach; gay pride; gay; COVID-19; intersectionality; Gerontological Society of America; DC Commission on Aging
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3243
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Title: Ron Swanda Interview Part 2, April 11, 2021
Date: April 11, 2021
Creator: Ron Swanda; Audrey Barnett
Description: Ron Swanda and Audrey Barnett continue the interview, transitioning into a conversation about caregiving, including Ron's role as a caregiver and support he needs in that capacity. Ron then discusses his definition of and experience with activism both in the present and past. Ron also emphasizes the important of identity-centered training for caregivers and healthcare providers and how his activism has changed focus as he's aged.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; caregiving; LGBT; gay; activism; Metropolitan Community Church; retirement; Air Force; Mayor's Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Affairs; Age-Friendly DC; Practice and Ethics Advisory Committee; DC Center for the LGBT Community; COVID-19; Gerontological Society of America
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3247
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Roots of Conservatism: Understanding Student Activism on College Campuses
Date: 2022-03-05; 2022-03-05
Creator: Michaela Fehn
Country: United States
Collection: Oral Histories
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Sara Nelson Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Suggs, Vernon; Nelson, Sara; Suggs, Vernon; Nelson, Sara
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; workers; labor union; flight attendant; 9/11
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3079
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Sayuri Hanatoyo Interview, October 16, 2021
Date: October 16, 2021
Creator: Hanatoyo, Sayuri; Kerr, Dan; Hanatoyo, Sayuri; Kerr, Dan
Description: Sayuri describes her poster that she made for her newborn son. She also speaks about the future of Chinatowns as places where Chinese Americans can find community in cities around the world.
Subject: Miu Eng; art; Chinatown; Asian American history; poster; children; family; home
Country: United States
Collection: Miu Eng Poster Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3213
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Sebastian Gluzman Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Gluzman, Sebastian; Suggs, Vernon; Gluzman, Sebastian; Suggs, Vernon
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; teaching; education; learning
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3082
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Shanara Gabrielle Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Suggs, Vernon; Gabrielle, Shanara; Suggs, Vernon; Gabrielle, Shanara
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; family; children; arts; arts education; music
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3085
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Simin Royanian Interview, October 17, 2020
Date: October 17, 2020
Creator: Simin Royanian; Shae Corey; Humanities Truck
Description: Simin Royanian has been involved in progressive movements from her upbringing in Iran to the time she came to the United States for college. She touches on revolutionary movements (like the American Indian Movement), the power and strength of collective movements, government oppression, repression by the ruling class, and the need for young people to unify to combat environmental exploitation, capitalism, and class oppression. Collective action is key.
Country: United States
Collection: Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2310
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Slave Auction: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott discusses this diorama scene depicting a slave auction, where three enslaved persons in chains are being sold to white buyers while another enslaved man begs for their freedom. Each figure in the diorama is made from stockings and sculpey clay.
Subject: dioramas; art; craft; slavery; slave auction
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3140
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Speak OUT!: Pride at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2019
Date: 2020-12-15; 2020-12-15
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Community Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
Date: 2022-02-16; 2022-02-16
Creator: Spencer Lawson; Colette Combs
Country: United States
Collection: Understanding Relationships to Gender through Drag in Quarantine
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Title: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
Date: December 1, 2021
Creator: Spencer Lawson; Colette Combs
Description: In this interview, Spencer Lawson, a full-time student at the University of Delaware, reflects upon his experience through a gendered lens. He discusses growing up openly expressing femininity, living in Haverhill Massachusetts, attending an all-boys middle and high school, coming out ,and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also describes finding make-up artistry and drag during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, using art as expression throughout his life, and his understanding of the performative aspects of gender.
Subject: drag; gender; youth and gender; gende roles; COVID-19; quarantine; isolation; theater; school; all-boys school; fashion; design; painting; art; make-up; RuPaul's Drag Race; Aquaria; University of Delaware; UDress; Coronavirus; gender performativity; Haverhill, MA
Country: United States
Collection: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3491
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Street Reporter Screening Discussion Guide
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Laura Waters Hinson
Description: Screening discussion guide for Street Reporter Documentary
Subject: film; African American; urban league; DC; storytelling
Country: United States
Collection: Street Reporter Documentary
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3305
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Susan Haris Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Haley Steinhilber; Susan Haris
Description: Susan Haris, American University Class of 1969, reflects on her time as a politically active American University student. She remembers her favorite professor and how grateful she felt to be attending AU in his class. She discusses seeing speakers such as Adam Clayton Powell and Muhammad Ali at AU. Susan shares how the political activism and turmoil of the 1960s led her to get involved, and she talks about her experiences at the March on the Pentagon and anti-Vietnam War protests. She reflects on how the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy changed the culture of DC and Baltimore. She ends on a positive note: "we all got through it, and here we are."
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination of; Robert F. Kennedy, assassination of; March on the Pentagon (October 1967); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Activism on American University campus; Anti-war protests; SDS (Students for a Democratic Society); Diversity at AU
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1951
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Susan Silber Interview, November 24, 2019
Date: November 24, 2019
Creator: Susan Silber; Ziona Pelz-Sherman
Description: Sue Silber, active member of local LGBTQ synagogue, Bet Mishpachah, describes her experience of the founding and growth of the synagogue, and what it means to be part of a congregation that not only accepts, but welcomes and celebrates positive expressions of sexual orientation or gender identity. In addition to touching on the intersection of Judaism and sexuality in her own life, Silber speaks on her current responsibilities within the community of Bet Mishpachah, as well as her involvement in the past.
Subject: Washington, DC; Judaism; synagogue; congregation; LGBT; LGBTQ+; sexual orientation; gender identity; Bet Mishpachah
Country: United States
Collection: Bet Mispachah Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2188
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Tammy Ingram Interview, June 22, 2019
Date: June 22, 2019
Creator: Maren Orchard; Tammy Ingram
Description: Tammy Ingram, who grew up in Southeast DC, describes her past experiences with go-go music and the changes she's seen in her community. She describes her affinity for Anacostia Park as a home away from home, and reflects upon listening to go-go music throughout her life. She explains the changes she's seen in Southest DC, including the development of new buildings and destruction of trees and grass, and hopes that Anacostia Park will remain a green place of peace. She shows the centrality of her neighborhood and go-go music to DC: "Southeast, Anacostia Park, go-go: if we can keep all that alive, then you have the real city."
Subject: Anacostia Park (Washington, D.C.); National Park Service -- Anacostia Park; Late Skate in Anacostia Park; Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative; Anacostia Park Skating Pavilion; Roller skating
Country: United States
Collection: Late Skate, June 22, 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2089
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Tanner Fraser Interview: Interviewer Reflection
Date: October 27, 2021
Creator: Colette Combs
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Colette Combs, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Country: United States
Collection: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3500
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
Date: October 27, 2021
Creator: Tanner Fraser; Colette Combs
Description: In this interview, Fraser, a non-binary drag artist living in Maryland, reflects upon their life through a gendered lens. They discuss growing up as a tomboy, living in Arizona, their relationship to their parents, youth sports, family dynamics, coming out, grappling with trans identity, discovering drag, and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fraser describes how serving in the U.S Navy, finding drag as a performance art form, and experiencing the pandemic changed their relationship to and Understanding of their own gender.
Subject: drag; Pretty Boi Drag; Gage Razor; non-binary; Washington, DC; Arizona; Scotland; tomboy; The L Word; One Direction; familial relationships; gender; youth and gender; US Navy; military and gender; gender roles; Catholicism; trans identity; COVID-19; quarantine; youth sports; ADHD
Country: United States
Collection: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3501
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Tatiana Belenkaya Interview, April 19, 2020
Date: April 19, 2020
Creator: Tatiana Belenkaya; Dan Kerr; Elsa Kerr
Description: Tatiana Belenkaya explains how COVID has affected her. She talks about its impact on her work, particularly regrading a trial in Chicago, and shares how it has been difficult to do work and schooling from home. However, she has found nature to be a positive sustaining force, as well as painting and alcohol. Tatiana hopes that the pandemic will spark systematic change, particularly in regards to decoupling healthcare from employment. “This crisis should be a call to action to mobilize people to pass laws that entitle everybody to good care.” This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Washington, DC; Humanities Truck; American University; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; work; school; family; nature; spring; flowers; painting; alcohol; social justice; employment; healthcare
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2113
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Thai Hung Nguyen Interview, May 18, 2020
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Thai Hung Nguyen; Dan Kerr
Description: Thai Hung Nguyen, a realtor with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Premier, shares how COVID has impacted his business. He discusses how realtors have had to take on new safety measures in ways they have never done before, such as wearing masks and disinfecting themselves with hand sanitizer and wipes. Thai talks about the new technologies realtors are using to give virtual tours of homes, and the need for them to stay on top of the real estate market. Finally, he shares how realtors have been caring and supporting for the community, especially in supporting local businesses. While he sees the virus as a very bad thing for humankind, Thai believes it has brought out kind hearts as people care for each other. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Falls Church, VA; Washington, DC; Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Premier; realtor; home buying; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; safety; virtual tours; real estate; market; community; human connection
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2152
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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