Interview with Lynn Conway

Lynn talks about her life history from her 1968 firing from IBM, to her outing and activism in the early 2000's, as well as her enormously successful online website and organizing. Narrator Name: Lynn Conway. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: She.

In Collection:

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Contributor

• Conway, Lynn
• Devor, Aaron
• Taylor, Evan
• Brown, Elspeth

Subject

• Conway, Lynn

Publisher

• Transgender Archives
• TheArquives

Language

• eng

Keyword

• Silicon chip
• Engineering
• Michael Bailey
• Facial feminization Surgery
• Activism
• Academia
• Harry Benjamin
• IBM
• STEM
• Internet
• Blog
• Technology
• Website

Date created

• February 4, 2020

Resource type

• Text
• Moving Image

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 03:12:32

Geographic coverage

• New York (State)
• Michigan

Coordinates

• 40.71427, -74.00597
• 44.25029, -85.50033

Chronological coverage

• 1938 to 2020

Collection

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Provider

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

Sponsor

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

Genre

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

Date digitized

• February 4, 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/10.58066/3r18-4q26