This Blogcast episode features Myra Billund-Phibbs’s article “Doing Trans History Despite It All,” first published in Process: A Blog for American History on July 1, 2025. In this episode, Billund-Phibbs (a PhD student at the University of Minnesota) recounts her experience interviewing trans people who lived in the 1970s Midwest. Specifically, she delves into complex questions around doing collaborative oral history in the current historical moment.

Read the blog post here: https://www.oah.org/process/doing-trans-history-despite-it-all-billund-phibbs/

Music: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band’s Mabel’s Dream, 1923

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