Interview with Ben Power Alwin

Ben talks about his politics, his history of activism, and specifically about the creation and legacy of the Sexual Minorities Archives. Narrator Name: Ben Power Alwin. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: He. Other Names or Pronouns: Bet Power; Ben Power.

In Collection:

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Contributor

• Devor, Aaron
• Power Alwin, Ben
• Taylor, Evan
• Brown, Elspeth

Subject

• Power Alwin, Ben

Publisher

• TheArquives
• Transgender Archives

Language

• eng

Keyword

• Education
• Archiving
• Anti-classism
• History
• Sexuality
• Knowledge
• Feminism
• ONE archives
• Anti-racism
• Political Activism
• Activism
• Leslie Fienberg
• Community

Date created

• February 18, 2020

Resource type

• Moving Image
• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 02:14:45

Geographic Coverage

• Massachusetts--Holyoke
• Illinois--Chicago

Coordinates

• 42.20426, -72.6162
• 41.85003, -87.65005

Chronological coverage

• 1968 to 2020

Collection

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Taylor, Evan
• Devor, Aaron
• Chair in Transgender Studies
• Brown, Elspeth
• LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory

Genre

• transcripts
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• oral histories (literary genre)

Date digitized

• February 18, 2020

Technical note

• PDF; mp4; vtt. Original recording using Zoom platform.

Rights

• Unless otherwise specified, this material is made available on this site for non-commercial purposes only. All other uses require permission of the copyright holder.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/2a6q-w242