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There’s a new opportunity for D.C.-area transgender folks to share their stories on a permanent platform. Nonbinary resident Cooper Joslin is currently interviewing trans people about their lives, identities, and experiences for the DC Transgender Oral History Project launched this year. The DC Public Library will ultimately preserve and index the final audio interviews and transcripts so they are publicly and indefinitely available.

The current wave of anti-transgender legislation across the country has amplified bigotry, threatening to push trans lives even further into the margins. “Every trans person I know feels unsafe in some way,” says Joslin. “I really want their experiences to live on. I want them to know their stories are important and deserve to be told.”

Published 6/6/23

Read my reporting at the Washington City Paper.