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Season 4: Episode 7: Reed Erickson
FromMaking Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Dec 27, 2018
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Podcast episode
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For a history of the transgender movement in the U.S., check out Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker.For a biographical overview of Erickson and his contributions to the homophile and transgender movements, check out this article by Aaron Devor and Nicholas Matte. To explore some of the Erickson Educational Foundation’s publications and other Reed Erickson materials, visit the University of Victoria Transgender Archives Collection here.The Milbank mansion and estate figures prominently in the story of ONE and Reed Erickson. Learn more about the mansion, which was built in 1913 in L.A.’s Country Club Park neighborhood, here and here. Read about Reed Erickson’s involvement with ONE Incorporated in this article by Aaron Devor and Nicholas Matte. Listen to our episode on some of the key figures of ONE here. Read Dr. Harry Benjamin’s New York Times obituary here. Read his 1966 The Transsexual Phenomenon in its entirety here.One from the Vaults, a trans history podcast by Morgan M Page, did a special episode on Reed Erickson. You can hear it here. Learn more about Morgan M Page and her work on her website. To find out more about AJ Lewis, listen to his testimony from the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a collaboration with the New York Public Library, here. Listen to other collected voices here. In 2012 video maker and interdisciplinary artist Chris E. Vargas produced ONE for All... about the tempestuous end of the partnership between Reed Erickson and ONE. The story focuses on the Milbank Estate and on the expansive but unrealized dreams that Erickson had for the future of queer activism. The video was part of Transactivation: Revealing Queer Histories in the Archive, an event at the ONE Archives. To learn more about Vargas’s work, check out his website. Find out more about his MOTHA (Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art) project here and on the website of the New Museum in New York here.
Released:
Dec 27, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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