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Interview no. | U-0589 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.18. Long Civil Rights Movement: Heirs to a Fighting Tradition |
Project description | The Heirs Project is a multi-phased oral history initiative that explores the stories and traditions of social justice activism in North Carolina through in-depth interviews with 14 highly respected activists and organizers. Selected for the integrity and high level of skill in their work dedicated to social justice, the interviewees represent a diversity of age, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. These narratives capture the richness of a set of activists with powerful perspectives on social justice, political activism, and similar visions of the common good. The stories shared by this cohort of activists represent personal moments of transition and transformation, tales of empowerment and exhaustion, and organizing successes and defeats. The Project seeks to highlight the history of progressive political action in North Carolina through the stories and experiences of those who pushed for change. |
Date | September 30 2010 |
Interviewee | Santiago, Mary Zulayka, 1975- |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Directors, NGOs and institutes Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1975 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Hirst, Luke. |
Abstract | Personal coming out story and exploration of gender through drag performance; Impact of her queerness on her work; Experience as Executive Director of El Pueblo; Leaving El Pueblo and doing part-time contract work for the North Carolina People's Coalition for Giving, giving her the freedom to explore a more playful side; Starting her own business, the Liberacion Juice Station, and ultimately having to close the business; Decision to return to a more formal job at the NC Health & Wellness Trust Fund; Desire for family; Spiritual practices, including nature, silence, and embracing color; a commitment to the South as home; Relationship to her body and to the images of what good hair is supposed to be; Commitment to breaking the culture of silence as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse; Thoughts on other people to interview. |
Citation | Interview with Mary Santiago by Luke Hirst, September 30 2010 U-0589, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0589_Audio |