A special episode LIVE from Camp Trans UK! Listen to the sounds of the wind in the trees and the smoke of a camp fire getting in my face as OFTV tells the story of the original Camp Trans.
Works Cited:
https://www.camp-trans.org/pages/ct-history.html
http://eminism.org/michigan/faq-protest.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Womyn%27s_Music_Festival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Trans#2010_festivals
https://www.transadvocate.com/how-terf-violence-inspired-camp-trans_n_14413.htm
https://www.transadvocate.com/michigan-womyns-music-festival_n_8943.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140117075803/http://zinelibrary.info/files/PABA6.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20101129014722/http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node%252F11968
http://transwomenbelonghere.blogspot.com/
http://transwomenbelonghere.blogspot.com/2013/05/envisioning-inclusive-michfest-thoughts.html
25 July 2022, 9:33 am
1 hour 43 minutes
OFTV Presents - Interview with Abram J Lewis
In this double-length episode, OFTV speaks to trans historian Abram J. Lewis about TAO (Transsexual Action Organization), about oral history work, and about how magic, witchcraft, and "unreason" intersect with the emergence of Gay Liberation and early trans organizations.
AJ Lewis is a post doctoral fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, and the co-founder of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a partnership with the New York Public Library system.
12 July 2021, 12:11 pm
59 minutes 7 seconds
OFTV Presents - Librada and Cubanecuir
This month OFTV presents a special interview with archivist Librada González Fernández of the Cubanecuir archive! Librada is a young trans woman based in NYC and Miami who is pulling together the stories and ephemera of queer and trans Cubans, both on the island and in the diaspora! She joins OFTV to talk Cuban queer history, the ethics of archival work, being a trans person working in history.
You can follow the archive @cubanecuir on Instagram and Twitter!
24 March 2021, 6:54 pm
42 minutes 43 seconds
OFTV Presents - Interview with Zackary Drucker
To celebrate five years of One From the Vaults, this year I'll be presenting a series of interviews with artists, filmmakers, writers, and historians working on trans history. First up is the brilliant and beautiful artist Zackary Drucker, co-director of the new HBO docuseries The Lady and the Dale, which tells the wild story of 1970s icon Liz Carmichael!
12 February 2021, 9:10 pm
45 minutes 22 seconds
OFTV 35 - La Prophetesse
This month's episode of OFTV follows the life of a gender non-conforming mystic who lead an early insurgency in the Haitian Revolution!
Works cited:
The Priest and the Prophetesse (2018) by Terry Rey
Des hommes et des dieux (2002)
Sex and the Empire That is No More (1994) by J. Lorand Matory
Mama Lola: a Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991) by Karen McCarthy Brown
29 July 2020, 4:29 pm
24 minutes
OFTV 34 - Gym Class
In this episode of OFTV, we follow Steve Dain - teacher of the year, and later mentor to Lou Sullivan - in his fight for the right to keep teaching after his sex change!
Works Cited:
http://revolution.berkeley.edu/steve-dain-teacher-transitions/
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eastbaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=steve-dain&pid=96301343
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/k930bx11b
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatsexami
https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//292479/online_extra:_emeryville_street_to_be_named_for_fired_trans_gym_teacher?fbclid=IwAR1o_L7_3dIykRc5kVijDviKC_ZsPvmInN0bLxQWMDz7kUJImLSmS2EFr-c
https://www.ebar.com/news/news//277848
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/rip-steve-dain-ftm-pioneer.html
http://revolution.berkeley.edu/steve-dain-outcome-1978/#menu-main-nav
23 May 2020, 3:56 pm
26 minutes 44 seconds
OFTV 33 - A Bunny in the Front Seat
In our first episode for 2020, OFTV looks at the tumultuous life of early gender clinic patient, sex worker-turned businesswoman Patricia Morgan!
Works cited:
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/08/patricia-morgan-1939-sex-worker.html#.Xj_4lhP7SRs
https://archive.org/details/drag414unse/page/n1/mode/2up
https://www.newspapers.com/image/65480016/
https://archive.org/details/femalemimics13unse/page/4/mode/2up
12 February 2020, 4:28 pm
20 minutes 52 seconds
OFTV 32 - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
In our very first HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, OFTV looks at the all-too-brief story of a Vicar, a ghost, and a veil! Join us this All Hallow's Eve for a chilling tale from trans history!
Works Cited:
https://archive.org/details/venuscastinafamobull/page/248
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/history/somersets-most-unusual-ghost-storya-1208123
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_woman_in_black_the_strange_story_of_a_crossdressing_ghost
http://www.strangehistory.net/2016/05/04/transvestite-vicar-ghost-interwar-england/
https://zagria.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-09-21T11:59:00-04:00&max-results=4#.XbV_1UX7SRt
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Stryker-My-Words-to-VF.pdf
27 October 2019, 3:53 pm
1 minute 20 seconds
OFTV bonus 13 Sneak Peek
A sneak peek of the new bonus episode available to our Patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv.
31 August 2019, 11:35 am
23 minutes 53 seconds
OFTV 31 - It's About Me Not You
In this episode, we take a look at artist, sculptor, and dollmaker Greer Lankton - muse to Nan Goldin and other downtown luminaries!
Works Cited:
https://www.documentjournal.com/2014/10/doll-parts-hilton-als-recalls-some-of-his-most-poignant-memories-of-artist-greer-lankton/
https://www.artforum.com/interviews/lia-gangitano-discusses-the-first-new-york-retrospective-of-greer-lankton-48864
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-1980s-icon-greer-lankton-explored-glamour-gender-eerie-dolls
https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/greerlankton/greer4.html&date=2009-10-25+23:30:47
https://web.archive.org/web/20110210012137/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475775
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/morton/morton1-26-07.asp
6 August 2019, 10:06 pm
1 minute 26 seconds
OFTV Bonus 12 - Sneak Peak!
A sneak peak of the latest Patrons-only mini episode! Available at patreon.com/oftv.