Digital Transgender Archive

Interview with Andrea Jenkins

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Andrea Jenkins is a Black trans-feminine person raised in Chicago. At the time of this interview, she was the Oral Historian for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. This is the second of two interviews with Jenkins held in Phase 1. In this oral history, Andrea Jenkins and Dominique Tobbell speak at length about the operations, opportunities, and challenges associated with Phase 1 of the Transgender Oral History Project. Jenkins also touches upon community ownership, medicalization, and her thoughts on interviews she had collected at that time.

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