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Title: Larry Neff Interview Part 1, October 26, 2021
Date: October 26, 2021
Creator: Larry Neff; Audrey Barnett
Description: In this interview, Larry Neff shares his experiences living in DC through the AIDS epidemic. He describes his gay community in DC prior to the outbreak of AIDS and then describes how the crisis transformed the community. Bet Mispachah, a queer synagogue in DC, proved to be an important support system for Neff through the height of the AIDS crisis and into the present day. He speaks on how his relationship with this organization has evolved throughout the years.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Foggy Bottom; Dupont Circle; George Washington University; gay and lesbian community; Lambda Rising bookstore; Connecticut Avenue; Kramers bookstore; government employees; racial segregation; Washington Blade; Washington Post; Whitman Walker; President Reagan; NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt; stigma; Bet Mishpachah; US Department of Transportation; PTSD; Judaism; University of Maryland; Bet Simchat Torah; David Green; Washington Hebrew Congregation; caregiving; Dace Stone; Jewish funeral practices; gay marriage; lesbian weddings; queer Jewish community; COVID-19; parenthood
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3330
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Title: Larry Neff Interview Part 2, October 26, 2021
Date: October 26, 2021
Creator: Larry Neff; Audrey Barnett
Description: In this interview, Larry Neff shares his experiences living in DC through the AIDS epidemic. He describes his gay community in DC prior to the outbreak of AIDS and then describes how the crisis transformed the community. Bet Mishpachah, a queer synagogue in DC, proved to be an important support system for Neff through the height of the AIDS crisis and into the present day. He speaks on how his relationship with this organization has evolved throughout the years.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Bet Mishpachah; COVID-19; cancer; vaccines; medical research; Zoom; caregiving; online services; Shabbat; high holiday services
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3332
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Title: Leonard Cohen Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Haley Steinhilber; Leonard Cohen
Description: Leonard Cohen, American University Class of 1969, discusses his time as an American University student and beyond. As a Political Science major, he shares how he learned to "follow the money" and how to communicate with all types of people. He reflects on his time protesting as a student, and remembers the protests against the invasion of Cambodia in particular. Leonard talks about taking the "University and Revolution" class with James "Jim" Weaver and Gary Weaver and the pushback they received from the administration. He remembers sneaking alcohol while AU was a dry campus. He ends by telling a story of a time he got arrested and its aftermath.
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; AU theatre; Alcohol on AU campus; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; President Richard Nixon; Activism on American University campus; Police harrassment; Fort Jackson, SC (Army Basic Combat Training); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Anti-war protests; GI coffeehouses; U.F.O. Coffee House, Inc.; AU Professor Gary Weaver; AU Professor James Weaver; School of International Service (SIS)
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1739
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Title: Lexie Starre Interview, November 12, 2019
Date: November 12, 2019
Creator: Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
Description: In this interview Lexie Starre discusses how she started performing burlesque and became a member and then producer of the DC Gurly Show, a DC burlesque troupe. She talks about the troupe’s focus on queer performers and community building, as well as providing instruction for new performers.
Subject: DC Gurly Show; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Queer Burlesque; Phase 1; The Pinch; Neo-burlesque; Pretty Boi Drag; Smut Slam; Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Howard University
Country: United States
Collection: DC Burlesque Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2222
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Title: Lexie Starre Interview, November 22, 2019
Date: November 12, 2019
Creator: Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
Description: In this interview Lexie Starre talks in-depth about the DC Gurly Show’s different productions, educational program, and its values of community and centering queerness. She also discusses realizing her queerness through the process of meeting her now-wife and then coming out. Finally, Starre describes various venues at which DC Gurly Show has held shows and a few of her own burlesque performances.
Subject: DC Gurly Show; Burlesque; Washington, DC; Bier Baron Tavern; Mentorship; Community; Coming out; Queerness; DC Kings; Phase 1; The Pinch; Best of Gay DC; Capital Pride; America’s Got Talent; Capital Fringe
Country: United States
Collection: DC Burlesque Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2223
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Title: Lia Nydes Interview, April 23, 2020
Date: April 23, 2020
Creator: Lia Nydes; Laura Waters Hinson
Description: Lia Nydes, gradaute student working with Truck Fellow Laura Waters Hinson, discusses how COVID has impacted her life. She shares how schoolwork and working out are the two primary things that have kept her going, especially as producing good work has allowed her to feel somewhat in control. She also enjoys walking around her neighborhood and Facetiming with family and friends. She hopes that this crisis will bring to light the drastic economy disparities that exist in the US, and that people will realize and act upon the need for universal healthcare. Lia also thinks it's important that this crisis puts pressure on governments to stop wet markets, to "conserve wildlife and conserve humans and our economy." This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Humanities Truck; American University; Washington, DC; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; work; graduate school; student; inequality; economy; healthcare; social justice; conservation; wildlife
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2125
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Title: Librarians in the Pandemic
Date: 2022-03-02; 2022-03-02
Creator: India Pasiuk
Country: United States
Collection: Oral Histories
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Title: Ly Meloccaro Interview, October 6, 2020
Date: October 6, 2020
Creator: Ly Meloccaro; Rosie Cain
Description: In this interview Rosie Cain interviews Ly Meloccaro about both their identity as non-binary and trans as well as their identity as fat. Ly discusses how they previously identified as trans-masc, a trans man and then non-binary, now agender. Ly discusses their experiences performing drag, as well as what their gender identity and body identity has meant in relation to their career as a musician and performer. Ly discusses their body identity as fat, fatphobia in the queer community and society as a whole, and the work of the Fat Liberation movement. Ly discusses their history with disordered eating and their struggle to receive gender affirming care because of their body size. They also discuss their use of social media.
Subject: gender; transgender; queer; non-binary; agender; body; fat; plus size; drag; musical theater; dysphoria; Health at Every Size; body positivity; cisgender; lesbian; gay; fat liberation; top surgery; disordered eating; fatphobia; social media; twitter; instagram; tumblr
Country: United States
Collection: Non-Binary and Fat: The Intersections of Identity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2476
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Title: Lydia Mackey Interview, Interviewer Reflection
Date: October 21, 2021
Creator: Michaela Fehn
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Michaela Fehn, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Country: United States
Collection: Lydia Mackey Interview, October 21, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3670
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Title: Lydia Mackey Interview, October 21, 2021
Date: 2022-03-05; 2022-03-05
Creator: Lydia Mackey; Michaela Fehn
Country: United States
Collection: Roots of Conservatism: Understanding Student Activism on College Campuses
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Title: Lydia Mackey Interview, October 21, 2021
Date: October 21, 2021
Creator: Lydia Mackey; Michaela Fehn
Description: Lydia Mackey, a university student at Anderson University in South Carolina, discusses the young Conservative movement through the lens of political student activist organizations, specifically Turning Point USA. Mackey discusses college political actisism, the roots of her own conservative identity, traditional family values, and where she believes the Conservative movement is going as a whole.
Subject: conservative; Turning Point USA; South Carolina; Anderson University; Christianity; social media; politics; political clubs; campus life; undergrad; activism; cultural movement; culture war; traditional family values; free speech; conservatism; leftism; liberalism; marriages
Country: United States
Collection: Lydia Mackey Interview, October 21, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3674
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Title: Maggie Fan Interview, September 11, 2021
Date: September 11, 2021
Creator: Fan, Maggie; Whitehurst, Angie; Fan, Maggie; Whitehurst, Angie
Subject: working in dc; food service; labor; labor day; workers; activism; languages
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3176
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Title: Marc Minsker Interview, May 30, 2020
Date: May 30, 2020
Creator: Marc Minsker; Maren Orchard
Description: Marc Minsker, a D.C. Public Schools high school teacher, talks about the impact of COVID, specifically on the Class of 2020. He shares how he thinks the pandemic will shape the personal histories of all 3.5 million high school seniors in America: how they were deprived the right to celebrate their graduations, and face a considerable amount of uncertainty. Marc thinks that while other students and teachers will have time to adjust going into next year, for the Class of 2020, high school is over. He does, however, hope that they will meet the future with optimism and a collective sense that "we got this." He ends by reminding us that behind every mask is a face and a story. 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; Washington, DC; public school; high school; Wilson High School; teacher; student; senior; graduation; college; Class of 2020; education
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2174
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Title: March on Washington 2021
Date: 2022--1-26; 2022--1-26
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Community Archive
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Title: Maren Orchard Interview, April 20, 2020
Date: April 20, 2020
Creator: Maren Orchard
Description: Humanities Truck Graduate Fellow Maren Orchard explores how the pandemic has impacted her life, especially as a final year graduate student. She shares how she has been struggling with the uncertainty of her next steps amid a pandemic, yet reflects upon the privilege she has to make certain decisions. Maren talks about her work as a student worker, and the often unnaccounted emotional weight of sustaining those close to her. She shares her struggles of feeling guilt and shame over her emotions, when she recognizes others are in worse positions. However, she has found calls with family and friends, being with her roommates, and talking with others in similar positions to be sustaining. Maren hopes that people will recognize their privilege as a result of this crisis and that we will act to put systems in place to provide for our most vulnerable citizens. She hopes that everyone will act to "better ourselves individually and in our communities, and structurally at national levels." This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: American University; Humanities Truck; Washington, DC; COVID-19; COVID; coronavirus; pandemic; work; graduate school; student; family; friends; privilege; emotions; fear; inequality; social justice; structural change
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2115
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Title: Margaux Granat Interview, September 12, 2021
Date: September 12, 2021
Creator: Granat, Margaux; Shenk, Katy; Shenk, Katy; Granat, Margaux
Subject: adams morgan day; neighborhood festival; place; gentrification; community; change; bike lanes; Ontario theatre
Country: United States
Collection: Adams Morgan Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2993
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Title: Margot Laurent-Trezevant Interview, September 11, 2022
Date: September 11 2022
Creator: Morgan B CARROLL; Person responsible unknown
Description: An interview with Margot Laurent-Trezevant at Adams Morgan Day 2022, recorded on Columbia Rd outside the line hotel.
Country: United States
Collection: Adams Morgan Day 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4374
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Title: Mark Armstrong Interview, December 3, 2019
Date: December 3, 2019
Creator: Mark Armstrong; Sarah Canfield
Description: Mark Anthony Armstrong speaks about stigmas around HIV and Joseph’s House in D.C., as well as his homosexuality in his family. He also speaks about the effects of contracting HIV had on his past, current, and future relationships with romantic partners and friends. He speaks of working through such issues in weekly therapy sessions, and why he thinks his story is an important example of how people grow in unlikely circumstances.
Subject: Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; World AIDS Day; community; Joseph’s House; dance; depression; spirituality; Shiva Entertainment; domestic abuse; homosexuality; therapy; relationships; friendships; disability
Country: United States
Collection: Joseph's House Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2199
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Title: Mark Armstrong Interview, October 19, 2019
Date: October 19, 2019
Creator: Mark Armstrong; Sarah Canfield
Description: Mark Anthony Armstrong recalls contracting HIV in the early 1990s, and the impact it has had on his life thereafter. Mark tells the story of his first partner and the traumas he experienced in the relationship. He also remembers growing up in D.C., traveling as a young man, working in a department store, working as a dancer, gymnast, and entertainer, and finding his place within various support groups in D.C.
Subject: Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; Joseph’s House; Whitman Walker; Homes for Hope; Kaiser Health Center; dance; ballet; depression; spirituality; Job Corps; Shiva Entertainment; Soul Train; domestic abuse; abuse; homosexuality; activism
Country: United States
Collection: Joseph's House Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2203
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Title: Mark Speiser Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; Mark Speiser
Description: Mark Speiser, American University Class of 1969, reflects of his time as student. He discusses how attending AU was a worldly experience for him coming from a small town and how he learned a lot about the world/country from living in DC. He shares one of his most memorable stories about asking a girl out on a date, only to learn she was married to a Supreme Court Justice.
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; Dating at AU
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1945
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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