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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: Regina Ofori-Antwi interview, October 18, 2021
Date: October 18, 2021
Creator: Renaldie Paul; Regina Ofori-Antwi
Description: Regina Ofori-Antwi’s interview was conducted on October 18th, 2021 over TheirStory. The interview collects information from a young stylist whose formative years were during the Natural Hair Revival Movement. The session explored the traditions and history of Black hair in America. Highlighting the ways hair culture forges community, identity, confidence, and inclusivity throughout people's lives. Regina is a passionate young woman who was not afraid to openly speak on the conditions surrounding Black hair from the external issues like products and the internal issues of self-doubt. Interviews conducted for American University's Fall 2021 Oral History course by Renaldie Paul.
Subject: Afro-textured hair; hair; African-American hair; Black hair; Community; Generation; Self-care
Country: United States
Collection: Regina Ofori-Antwi Interview, October 18,2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3563
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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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