Minneapolis Interview Project

Life stories through a social justice lens

Gender & Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality include posts on feminism, sexuality, GLBTQ issues, sexual assault,  sex positivity, MeToo, (Angela Conley, Roxxanne O’Brien); the politics of consent, rape culture,( Anna K Binkovitz);  gay marriage, ( Michael McConnell); Ann Marie DeGroot);  gay history, Pride, feminist history, (Lisa Albrecht );  women’s issues, men’s issues, (Jason Sole); non-binary issues, Minneapolis institutions by and/or for women, men, Non- binary and GLBTQ+ people, GLBTQ parenting, the intersection of race and gender (Rose Brewer, Robin Wonsley Worlobah). 

Ruth Voights

Collaborating to Center Native American Women

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Harvests Community Wisdom to Affect Public Policy and Heal Herself

Susana De Leon

From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Lisa Albrecht

Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs that Teach Anti-Racism

Patrick Scully

Patrick's Cabaret Founder Lives Authentic Artist Life While Elevating Minneapolis Art Scene

Roy Guzmán

Celebrated Queer Honduran Poet Puts Down Roots in Minneapolis

Roya Taylor

Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Minerva Munoz

Makes Space in College For Working-Class People Like Her.

Guy Terrill Gambill

Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Louise Sundin

Minneapolis Teachers' Union Organizer, on 50 years of Labor Leadership

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Anna K. Binkovitz

Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Sandy Berman

The Making of a Radical Librarian

Irna Landrum

Black Queer Lefty From New Orleans Reclaims Nature, God and Politics

Jess Sundin

Police Justice and Anti-War Activist: The People Are My Mountains

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Bruce Drewlow

Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis; the Education of an Educator.

Phillipe Cunningham

Minneapolis City Council Member Draws on Experiences of Marginalization as a Black Trans Man to Reimagine Public Safety

Sherry Quan Lee

Black/ Asian Writer Grapples with Identity, Dares to Nurture Untold Stories

Aiden Reed

Gay Adopted Teen, Seeks Space to Be Unique

Angela Conley

Hennepin County Commissioner Learned to Solve "Unsolvable Problems" by Listening to Survivors

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Robin Wonsley

Radical Transformation of an Organizer from Chicago's Southside

Louis Alemayehu

The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Nelsie Yang

Hmong American with Northside Roots, Seeks Justice through City Hall and Streets

Kathleen Farber

Union/DFL Activist Remembers Lake Street in the '60s

Michael McConnell

Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Wyn Massey

Minneapolis Labor Activist Recalls 40 Years of Resistance

Barb Tilsen

Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

Tom O’Connell

Our Minneapolis Revolution: 1930s, 1970s, & Today.

Brenna Dep

Youth Worker Learns Liberating Power of a Poem

Sandy Hernandez

Growing Up Undocumented in Minneapolis

Elizabeth Faue

Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

Minneapolis Interview Project
Life Stories that reveal inequities and struggles for social justice in Minneapolis

Anne Winkler-Morey

Anne Winkler-Morey is a writer, historian, educator, activist and bicyclist based in Minneapolis. She is a scholar of social movements, nationalism and inequality in the US and Latin America. She began writing the Minneapolis Interview Project in May, 2016, completing it in November 2023. Her book, Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States , was published April, 2022. In November 2023 she began a two-year world tour. Read her blog at: annewinklermorey.com

Eric Mueller

Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher. He began photographing portraits for the Minneapolis Interview Project in early 2019. His photo book, Family Resemblance, was published by Daylight Books in 2020. His year-long, photo-a-day project "Reset 2021" was exhibited at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona in 2022.

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