Digital Transgender Archive
Eddie Jarel Jones is a Cleveland, Ohio native and current social influencer, media personality, producer, Emcee, and model. They reflect on the experience of attending a Historically Black College as a queer person and openly claiming their identities in this environment. Discussing their work, including with SlayTV, a Queer, Trans, GNC, people of color media agency, Eddie shares the origins of their hussle mentality. Additionally they speak on danger they have experienced while being femme and non-binary, also Eddie shares the difficulty of navigating both grief and success in relation to social media.
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- https://nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/eddie-jarel-jones/
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- Cite
- Identifier
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- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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NYC Trans Oral History Project
- Creator(s)
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Jones, Eddie Jarel
- Contributor(s)
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Knight, Sir
- Publisher
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New York Public Library
- Date Created
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May 29, 2019
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Bathroom Act
BlackTransTV
Jussie Smollett
King Children
Lincoln University
MOBIfest
Morehouse College
Philly Fashion Week
Pose
Sean Torrington
Slay TV
SLAYFEST
SpeakOut
Spelman College
Terry Torrington
The Phluid Project
World Pride 2019
- Places
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia County
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City of Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
New York
Ohio > Cuyahoga County > City of Cleveland > Cleveland
Pennsylvania > Chester > Lower Oxford Township > Lincoln University
New York > Kings > Coney Island
- Topic(s)
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African American universities and colleges
Anti-transgender violence
Bathrooms
Beauty standards
Bisexual youth
Black people
Bullying
Childhood
Cosmetics
Crossdressing
Dating
Discrimination
Drag
Family members
Femininities
Gay and lesbian youth
Gay pride
Gender
Gender diversity
Gender realignment surgery
Harassment
Heterosexism
Homophobia
LGBTI community
Masculinities
Passing (Gender)
Pronoun
Racism
Self-image
Social media
Telecommunication
Transgender community
Transgender people
Transgender youth
Transphobia
Visibility
Women's colleges
- Resource Type
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Audio
Text
- Language
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English
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