City of Minneapolis, MN The Division of Race & Equity, 3 Feb 2020

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From YouTube: Stonewall Oral History – Interviews

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Interview with Adja Gildersleve

A

I'm, a trans girl, either in practice, prefer jeane immigrants.

B

Would follow in.

C

Puerto Rican entertainment.

B

Coordinator, the.

D

Black trans male community.

E

Father, a parent.

F

A brother friend.

G

Stoma feels like, like a ghost, that's trying to like break through the veil, to speak to us again the impact that I feel from it is like seeing articles in The Economist about how Minneapolis is one of the most progressive cities in America and then a month later, seeing another article about we have the biggest racial housing inequity in America and.

C

So when I think about how it's impacting our communities, I see the retelling of our history for a corporate kind of let's make money off of this nostalgic idea of what queer liberation or queer people are supposed to be right. But.

H

I do believe that the Stonewall era impacted us positively, because we can just be us and live and be celebrated amongst whatever community a closer.

A

I get towards liberation, the closer I have joy. Look more people are going to want to drown me too. So it is important for me to both practice but protect my joy and that's what I learned from Marsha P Johnson to.

I

Be a descendant of Stonewall means that I have a legacy to follow. That I have a responsibility to my ancestors that I have a responsibility to the future generations to do my very best to ensure that the people that I serve and the communities that I'm engaged with have full access and equity I.

J

Don't know that we will really ever feel a full sense of equity within anyone area. You know there's just too much violence and too much drama in different different communities, and how can we ever have that sense of equity, a.

B

Truly liberated Twin Cities to me looks like us having access to jobs, food sustainability having having like healing spaces, less homelessness.

K

You would see more people like us being the best we can without any obstacle holding us back there.

D

Would be more gender non-conforming, transgendered people, black people in those very same positions leading the way in spaces where we were told we don't belong.

L

This liberated vision in my mind and would have us everywhere and comfortably so and feeling safe doing so, walking down the street without fear when start to get emotional. What just hit me right, then, was Cece McDonald that in my mind, that scenario would never have unfolded so.

E

Me real liberation looks like removing the systemic barriers that require equity to be necessary. The best person has access to everything they mean without systemic oppression and systemic racism, and generational poverty being the catalyst as to who can and who can't access. Something. Remove that that if you remove that bit, I think black and brown queer folks gonna do just fine. It's.

F

Been a long long time come in and I know change. Gonna come! Oh! Yes, it will.