Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Ellie Krug
Ellie Krug is a white trans woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, family, and relationships, her memoirs and experiences of transition, her thoughts on trans representation and visibility and representation, and her work in legal services. Specifically, Krug discusses coming of age "before Stonewall," her memoir Getting to Ellen, her thoughts on trans actors and representation in popular media, and her co-founding of Call for Justice, a legal services nonprofit serving low-income clients in Minneapolis.
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- https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:116
- Citation
- Cite
- Identifier
- 73666486b
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Krug, Ellie
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Dec. 15, 2015
- Dates Covered
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circa 1960
circa 1970
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Call for Justice
Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Minnesota
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Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
Iowa > Linn > City of Cedar Rapids > Cedar Rapids
- Topic(s)
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Celebrities
Education
Family relationships
Gender affirming surgery
Gender-affirming care
LGBTQ+ activism
LGBTQ+ actors
LGBTQ+ families
LGBTQ+ people with addictions
LGBTQ+ visibility
Love
Middle West
Sex
Substance abuse
Trans women
Transitioning (Gender)
White transgender people
Whites--Race identity
Work
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Rights
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In copyright
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