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Title: Abhayam Kaln Interview, September 22, 2019
Date: September 22, 2019
Creator: Sierra Solomon; Person responsible unknown
Subject: Washington, DC; Meridian Hill Park; Malcolm X Park; drum circle; music; gentrification; spirituality
Country: United States
Collection: September 22, 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1702
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Curtis Harrison Interview, November 11, 2019
Date: November 11, 2019
Creator: Curtis Harrison; Sarah Canfield
Description: Curtis Harrison recalls finding out he had HIV while incarcerated for a 20 year sentence. He talks of his time living in homeless shelters in D.C., in Joseph’s House, and temporary housing.
Subject: Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; Joseph’s House; Cornerstones Affordable Housing; homeless shelter; spirituality; dialysis; prostate cancer; D.C. Medicaid; incarceration; grill cook
Country: United States
Collection: Joseph's House Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2194
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Joe Gaines Interview, October 17, 2020
Date: October 17, 2020
Creator: Joe Gaines; Kai Walther
Description: Joe Gaines, Choctaw from SE Oklahoma and member of Rebrand Washington Football and No Stadium, No Name Change, speaks with interviewer Kai Walther at Malcolm X Park for the Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration. He discusses learning about and challenging narratives from family and school about Christopher Columbus and the police. He calls for people to do something with this information once they learn about it, and how events such as Indigenous Peoples Day and more visibility and conversations around Native issues can help bring positive change.
Subject: Choctaw; Native American; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples Day; Columbus Day; Malcolm X Park; police; government; Christopher Columbus; Rebrand Washington Football; No Name Change, No Stadium; spirituality; Christianity; history; education
Country: United States
Collection: Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2332
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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