In this double-length episode, OFTV speaks to trans historian Abram J. Lewis about TAO (Transsexual Action Organization), about oral history work, and about how magic, witchcraft, and "unreason" intersect with the emergence of Gay Liberation and early trans organizations.
AJ Lewis is a post doctoral fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, and the co-founder of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a partnership with the New York Public Library system.
Mar 24, 2021
OFTV Presents - Librada and Cubanecuir
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This month OFTV presents a special interview with archivist Librada González Fernández of the Cubanecuir archive! Librada is a young trans woman based in NYC and Miami who is pulling together the stories and ephemera of queer and trans Cubans, both on the island and in the diaspora! She joins OFTV to talk Cuban queer history, the ethics of archival work, being a trans person working in history.
You can follow the archive @cubanecuir on Instagram and Twitter!
Feb 12, 2021
OFTV Presents - Interview with Zackary Drucker
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To celebrate five years of One From the Vaults, this year I'll be presenting a series of interviews with artists, filmmakers, writers, and historians working on trans history. First up is the brilliant and beautiful artist Zackary Drucker, co-director of the new HBO docuseries The Lady and the Dale, which tells the wild story of 1970s icon Liz Carmichael!
Jul 29, 2020
OFTV 35 - La Prophetesse
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This month's episode of OFTV follows the life of a gender non-conforming mystic who lead an early insurgency in the Haitian Revolution!
Works cited:
The Priest and the Prophetesse (2018) by Terry Rey
Des hommes et des dieux (2002)
Sex and the Empire That is No More (1994) by J. Lorand Matory
Mama Lola: a Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991) by Karen McCarthy Brown