Oral History Project - Ongoing

This is a joint project between Gender DynamiX and GALA (Gay And Lesbian Archives). The overall aim of this project is to document the life stories of transgender people and their families and to use this information to empower transgender people and to educate teh public. telling your story will help you and other transgender people to claim space in history and being part of this country's rich and diverse history. The oral history interviews are conducted in private, usually tape-recorded or sometimes with digital video recording. Both the interviewer and interviewee sign a contract, enabling the person who shared the story control over it, in other words the person can decide if it must be anonomous, embarcoded for a certain amount of years, photo's and visuals to be made available or not or whether it will be only available for researchers. For more information about GALA visit: http://www.gala.wits.ac.za/ Persons interested in partaking of this project, can contact either GALA or Gender DynamiX