{"response":{"docs":[{"id":"nv935321z","system_create_dtsi":"2022-11-04T21:44:43Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2025-09-03T04:39:09Z","date_uploaded_dtsi":"2022-11-04T21:44:43Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2022-11-04T21:44:43Z","model_ssi":"GenericFile","has_model_ssim":["GenericFile"],"date_created_tesim":["2022-11-04"],"date_created_ssim":["2022-11-04"],"visibility_ssi":"public","new_model_ssi":"GenericObject","dta_all_subject_ssim":["BIPOC","Fa'afafine","Indigenous LGBTQ+ people","LGBTQ+ activism","LGBTQ+ sex workers","Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people","Pacific Islander American transgender people","Trans women","Transgender people of color"],"dta_other_subject_ssim":["Pride Foundation","Trans Justice Funding Project","TRANSform Culture","United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)"],"dta_homosaurus_subject_ssim":["BIPOC","Fa'afafine","Indigenous LGBTQ+ people","LGBTQ+ activism","LGBTQ+ sex workers","Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people","Pacific Islander American transgender people","Trans women","Transgender people of color"],"date_created_search_tesim":["Jul July 24, 2020","Aug August 28, 2020"],"date_created_display_ssim":["Jul. 24, 2020","Aug. 28, 2020"],"dta_dates_ssim":["2020","2020"],"dta_sortable_date_dtsi":"2020-08-28T00:00:00Z","ident_tesi":"nv935321z","identifier_ssim":["nv935321z"],"collection_name_ssim":["Oral Histories with People of Color"],"institution_name_ssim":["Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota"],"primary_institution_ssi":"Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota","depositor_ssim":["arona.s@northeastern.edu"],"depository_tesim":["arona.s@northeastern.edu"],"title_tesim":["Interview with Agaiotupu Viena"],"title_ssim":["Interview with Agaiotupu Viena"],"label_tesim":["Interview with Agaiotupu Viena"],"description_tesim":["An interview with Agaiotupu Viena, a fa'afafine and trans woman from Amerika Samoa, educator, advocate, and community organizer based in the Seattle area. At the time of these interviews, she was Program Director for TRANSform Culture, an education and advocacy program of the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-area philanthropic organization prioritizing movements led by queer and trans people of color. In addition to her work with Pride Foundation, Viena was a Co-Chair both of United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA,) an advocacy and mutual support organization led by and serving members of the Pacific Islander LGBTQI community, and of the first-ever Washington State LGBTQ Commission. In the first part of this oral history interview, Viena discusses her upbringing in Samoa surrounded by fa'afafine family members, mentors, and peers, her experiences of family life, school, religion, and fa'afafine identity as a child, and the beginnings of her trans activism after her move to Hawai'i at the age of 17 and subsequent estrangement from her family. Additionally, she discusses her thoughts on the value of experiential and cultural knowledge and research justice as part of her work, the insufficiency of mainstream, assimilationist narratives of transness, and the widespread exclusion of Indigenous understandings of gender and gender expression. In the second part of the interview, Viena discusses her move to Seattle and the relationship between her experiences in community with other sex workers and her political activism, her thoughts on fa'afafine and trans sisterhood and chosen family, transformative justice, and the problems of respectability in the nonprofit world, and her work with the Trans Justice Funding Project. Additionally, she discusses the lack of engagement around sex work among mainstream trans organizations, her thoughts on groups and activists doing vital work, and her visions for the future."],"mime_type_tesim":["image/jpeg"],"resource_type_tesim":["Moving image","Text"],"creator_tesim":["Viena, Agaiotupu"],"creator_ssim":["Viena, Agaiotupu"],"contributor_tesim":["Beam, Myrl","Billund-Phibbs, Myra","Chamness, Daria"],"contributor_ssim":["Beam, Myrl","Billund-Phibbs, Myra","Chamness, Daria"],"rights_tesim":["Copyright undetermined"],"publisher_tesim":["University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries"],"publisher_ssim":["University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries"],"language_tesim":["http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng"],"based_near_tesim":["http://www.geonames.org/5809844","http://www.geonames.org/5855797","http://www.geonames.org/5880801"],"based_near_ssim":["http://www.geonames.org/5809844","http://www.geonames.org/5855797","http://www.geonames.org/5880801"],"isPartOf_ssim":["2b88qc34d"],"isMemberOf_ssim":["vq27zn49p"],"genre_tesim":["Oral Histories","Transcriptions"],"genre_ssim":["Oral Histories","Transcriptions"],"flagged_tesim":["No explicit content"],"other_subject_tesim":["TRANSform Culture","United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)","Trans Justice Funding Project","Pride Foundation"],"other_subject_ssim":["TRANSform Culture","United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)","Trans Justice Funding Project","Pride Foundation"],"dta_other_subject_tesim":["Pride Foundation","Trans Justice Funding Project","TRANSform Culture","United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)"],"dta_subject_primary_searchable_tesim":["BIPOC","Fa'afafine","Indigenous LGBTQ+ people","LGBTQ+ activism","LGBTQ+ sex workers","Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people","Pacific Islander American transgender people","Trans women","Transgender people of color","Pride Foundation","Trans Justice Funding Project","TRANSform Culture","United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)"],"dta_subject_alt_searchable_tesim":["Sex workers (LGBTQ)","Activism (LGBTQ)","Transgender women","Transwomen","Trans-women","LGBTQ+ Indigenous people","Indigenous people (LGBTQ)","Black, Indigenous, and people of color","Black, Indigenous, and people of colour","AAPI LGBTQ+ people","LGBTQ+ AAPIs","LGBTQ+ Pacific Islander American people","LGBTQ+ Pacific Islander Americans","Pacific Islander American people (LGBTQ)","Pacific Islander Americans (LGBTQ)","Transgender Pacific Islander American people","Transgender Pacific Islander Americans"],"date_start_dtsi":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","date_end_dtsi":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","date_created_search_ssim":["Jul July 24, 2020","Aug August 28, 2020"],"is_shown_at_tesim":["https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:248"],"is_shown_at_ssim":["https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:248"],"hosted_elsewhere_ssi":"1","language_label_ssim":["English"],"subject_geojson_facet_ssim":["{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-122.33207\",\"47.60621\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Seattle\"}}","{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-156.50028\",\"20.75028\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Hawaii\"}}","{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-169.47767\",\"-14.23377\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"American Samoa\"}}"],"subject_coordinates_geospatial":["47.60621,-122.33207","20.75028,-156.50028","-14.23377,-169.47767"],"subject_geographic_hier_ssim":["Washington||King County||City of Seattle||Seattle","Hawaii","American Samoa"],"subject_geographic_ssim":["Seattle","Washington","King County","City of Seattle","United States","Hawaii","American Samoa"],"subject_geographic_tesim":["Seattle","Washington","King County","City of Seattle","United States","Hawaii","American Samoa"],"has_thumbnail_ssi":"true","blacklight_display_ssi":"generic_file","has_file_content_ssi":"true","_version_":1842245181135388672,"timestamp":"2025-09-03T12:18:33.772Z","score":1.0},{"id":"2j62s519s","system_create_dtsi":"2022-11-04T20:09:15Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2025-09-02T23:44:58Z","date_uploaded_dtsi":"2022-11-04T20:09:15Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2022-11-04T20:09:15Z","model_ssi":"GenericFile","has_model_ssim":["GenericFile"],"date_created_tesim":["2022-11-04"],"date_created_ssim":["2022-11-04"],"visibility_ssi":"public","new_model_ssi":"GenericObject","dta_all_subject_ssim":["Black queer people","Black transgender people","LGBTQ+ youth","LGBTQ+ youth centers","Transgender activism","Transgender youth","Transmasculine people"],"dta_other_subject_ssim":["American Friends Service Committee","Lambert House","Sylvia Rivera Law Project","Trans Justice Funding Project"],"dta_homosaurus_subject_ssim":["Black queer people","Black transgender people","LGBTQ+ youth","LGBTQ+ youth centers","Transgender activism","Transgender youth","Transmasculine people"],"date_created_search_tesim":["Nov November 19, 2019"],"date_created_display_ssim":["Nov. 19, 2019"],"dta_dates_ssim":["2019"],"dta_sortable_date_dtsi":"2019-11-19T00:00:00Z","ident_tesi":"2j62s519s","identifier_ssim":["2j62s519s"],"collection_name_ssim":["Oral Histories with People of Color"],"institution_name_ssim":["Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota"],"primary_institution_ssi":"Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota","depositor_ssim":["arona.s@northeastern.edu"],"depository_tesim":["arona.s@northeastern.edu"],"title_tesim":["Interview with Gabriel Foster"],"title_ssim":["Interview with Gabriel Foster"],"label_tesim":["Interview with Gabriel Foster"],"description_tesim":["An interview with Gabriel Foster, a  Black queer and trans activist, youth worker, and community organizer. At the time of this interview, he was the co-founder and executive director of the Trans Justice Funding Project, an organization that distributes grants and other funding to grassroots organizations led by and serving trans communities in the United States. Prior to his work with TJFP, Foster served as Director of Outreach at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and as a Program Assistant for the American Friends Service Committee's GLBT Youth Program in the Seattle area. In this oral history interview, Foster discusses his upbringing in 1990s Seattle and discovery of Lambert House, an LGBT youth center in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood, his ensuing work with the American Friends Service Committee and Northwest Network, the beginnings of his work in community organizing and trans activism in New York, his co-founding of TJFP with Karen Pittelman and their motivations for doing so, the work of TJFP in supporting grassroots trans justice movements and organizations across the United States, and the importance of connection and transformative justice for trans movements.\r\nDate Created:"],"mime_type_tesim":["image/jpeg"],"resource_type_tesim":["Moving image","Text"],"creator_tesim":["Foster, Gabriel"],"creator_ssim":["Foster, Gabriel"],"contributor_tesim":["Beam, Myrl","Billund-Phibbs, Myra"],"contributor_ssim":["Beam, Myrl","Billund-Phibbs, Myra"],"rights_tesim":["Copyright undetermined"],"publisher_tesim":["University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries"],"publisher_ssim":["University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries"],"language_tesim":["http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng"],"based_near_tesim":["http://www.geonames.org/5128581","http://www.geonames.org/5809844"],"based_near_ssim":["http://www.geonames.org/5128581","http://www.geonames.org/5809844"],"isPartOf_ssim":["2b88qc34d"],"isMemberOf_ssim":["vq27zn49p"],"genre_tesim":["Oral Histories","Transcriptions"],"genre_ssim":["Oral Histories","Transcriptions"],"flagged_tesim":["No explicit content"],"other_subject_tesim":["Trans Justice Funding Project","Sylvia Rivera Law Project","American Friends Service Committee","Lambert House"],"other_subject_ssim":["Trans Justice Funding Project","Sylvia Rivera Law Project","American Friends Service Committee","Lambert House"],"dta_other_subject_tesim":["American Friends Service Committee","Lambert House","Sylvia Rivera Law Project","Trans Justice Funding Project"],"dta_subject_primary_searchable_tesim":["Black queer people","Black transgender people","LGBTQ+ youth","LGBTQ+ youth centers","Transgender activism","Transgender youth","Transmasculine people","American Friends Service Committee","Lambert House","Sylvia Rivera Law Project","Trans Justice Funding Project"],"dta_subject_alt_searchable_tesim":["Transgender Black people","Transgender adolescents","Transgender teenagers","Transgender teens","Adolescents (LGBTQ)","LGBTQ+ adolescents","LGBTQ+ teenagers","LGBTQ+ teens","Teenagers (LGBTQ)","Teens (LGBTQ)","Youth (LGBTQ)","Queer Black people"],"date_start_dtsi":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","date_end_dtsi":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","date_created_search_ssim":["Nov November 19, 2019"],"is_shown_at_tesim":["https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:201"],"is_shown_at_ssim":["https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:201"],"hosted_elsewhere_ssi":"1","language_label_ssim":["English"],"subject_geojson_facet_ssim":["{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-74.00597\",\"40.71427\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"New York\"}}","{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-122.33207\",\"47.60621\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Seattle\"}}"],"subject_coordinates_geospatial":["40.71427,-74.00597","47.60621,-122.33207"],"subject_geographic_hier_ssim":["New York","Washington||King County||City of Seattle||Seattle"],"subject_geographic_ssim":["New York","United States","Seattle","Washington","King County","City of Seattle"],"subject_geographic_tesim":["New York","United States","Seattle","Washington","King County","City of Seattle"],"has_thumbnail_ssi":"true","blacklight_display_ssi":"generic_file","has_file_content_ssi":"true","_version_":1842245181090299904,"timestamp":"2025-09-03T12:18:33.729Z","score":1.0}],"facets":[{"name":"dtalimits","items":[{"value":"ex_fa","hits":2,"label":"Exclude Finding Aids"}],"label":"Limit"},{"name":"creator_ssim","items":[{"value":"Foster, Gabriel","hits":1,"label":"Foster, Gabriel"},{"value":"Viena, Agaiotupu","hits":1,"label":"Viena, Agaiotupu"}],"label":"Creator"},{"name":"dta_all_subject_ssim","items":[{"value":"BIPOC","hits":1,"label":"BIPOC"},{"value":"Black queer people","hits":1,"label":"Black queer people"},{"value":"Black transgender people","hits":1,"label":"Black transgender people"},{"value":"Fa'afafine","hits":1,"label":"Fa'afafine"},{"value":"Indigenous LGBTQ+ people","hits":1,"label":"Indigenous LGBTQ+ people"},{"value":"LGBTQ+ activism","hits":1,"label":"LGBTQ+ activism"},{"value":"LGBTQ+ sex workers","hits":1,"label":"LGBTQ+ sex workers"}],"label":"Topic"},{"name":"dta_other_subject_ssim","items":[{"value":"Trans Justice Funding Project","hits":2,"label":"Trans Justice Funding Project"},{"value":"American Friends Service Committee","hits":1,"label":"American Friends Service Committee"},{"value":"Lambert House","hits":1,"label":"Lambert House"},{"value":"Pride Foundation","hits":1,"label":"Pride Foundation"},{"value":"Sylvia Rivera Law Project","hits":1,"label":"Sylvia Rivera Law Project"},{"value":"TRANSform Culture","hits":1,"label":"TRANSform Culture"},{"value":"United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)","hits":1,"label":"United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA)"}],"label":"Subject"},{"name":"dta_dates_yearly_itim","items":[{"value":"2019","hits":1,"label":"2019"},{"value":"2020","hits":1,"label":"2020"}],"label":"Date"},{"name":"genre_ssim","items":[{"value":"Oral Histories","hits":2,"label":"Oral Histories"},{"value":"Transcriptions","hits":2,"label":"Transcriptions"}],"label":"Genre"},{"name":"subject_geographic_ssim","items":[{"value":"City of Seattle","hits":2,"label":"City of Seattle"},{"value":"King County","hits":2,"label":"King County"},{"value":"Seattle","hits":2,"label":"Seattle"},{"value":"United States","hits":2,"label":"United States"},{"value":"Washington","hits":2,"label":"Washington"},{"value":"American Samoa","hits":1,"label":"American Samoa"},{"value":"Hawaii","hits":1,"label":"Hawaii"}],"label":"Location"},{"name":"language_label_ssim","items":[{"value":"English","hits":2,"label":"English"}],"label":"Language"},{"name":"collection_name_ssim","items":[{"value":"Oral Histories with People of Color","hits":2,"label":"Oral Histories with People of Color"}],"label":"Collection"},{"name":"institution_name_ssim","items":[{"value":"Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota","hits":2,"label":"Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota"}],"label":"Institution"},{"name":"subject_geojson_facet_ssim","items":[{"value":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-122.33207\",\"47.60621\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Seattle\"}}","hits":2,"label":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-122.33207\",\"47.60621\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Seattle\"}}"},{"value":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-156.50028\",\"20.75028\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Hawaii\"}}","hits":1,"label":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-156.50028\",\"20.75028\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"Hawaii\"}}"},{"value":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-169.47767\",\"-14.23377\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"American Samoa\"}}","hits":1,"label":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-169.47767\",\"-14.23377\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"American Samoa\"}}"},{"value":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-74.00597\",\"40.71427\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"New York\"}}","hits":1,"label":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[\"-74.00597\",\"40.71427\"]},\"properties\":{\"placename\":\"New York\"}}"}],"label":"Coordinates"},{"name":"publisher_ssim","items":[{"value":"University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries","hits":2,"label":"University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries"}],"label":"Publisher"}],"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":15,"offset_value":0,"total_count":2,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}}}