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Gormley, Quinn, Liam Dunn, Katherine Sucy
Gormley, Quinn, Liam Dunn, Katherine Sucy
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Quinn Gormley, who uses she/they pronouns, is 27 years old and lives with their husband and dog in Auburn, Maine. Quinn became involved in activism and trans liberation in 2011 after attending a support group with Maine TransNet, a grassroots trans organization serving Mainers. Since then, they have been highly involved with the organization and took on the role of Executive Director in 2016. Prior to Maine TransNet, Quinn worked in public health managing an HIV testing program for the Health Equity Alliance, one of the state’s main AIDS service organizations. She attended the University Church of Chicago for Percussion …
Grief Work With The Philly Death Doula Collective: An Oral History Project, Leo L. Williams
Grief Work With The Philly Death Doula Collective: An Oral History Project, Leo L. Williams
Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021
On March 25th, 2021 a Master’s student in American Studies (Leo Williams) at the University of New Mexico met with the Philly Death Doula Collective over Zoom. The current members of the collective are Lori Zaspel, Kai Wonder, and Nicki Cowan, social workers, and Death Doulas living in Philadelphia. In this oral history interview, the collective speaks to their vision of death care infrastructure, their goals and services as a collective, how COVID-19 has affected them, and their relationship to death positive activism.