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"The AU Trans Experience: Then and Now" project aims to explore and celebrate the transgender experience at American University over the past several decades. For current transgender students, this project provides a sense that they belong to a trans-affirming AU community and to a long history of trans people at AU. The project also brings a rich awareness to our non-trans community members, who may know that trans people exist, or may even know a trans individual personally, but may not have spent much time thinking about what trans experience is like or how rich trans history and research really is. This was researched and curated by Dr. Perry Zurn (Dept. of Philosophy and Religion), Matt Ferguson, Stephen Masson, Hana Henzen, and Scout Pruski, with special direction from Leslie Nellis (Associate Archivist) and Erica Bethel (Marketing and Design Coordinator), in partial fulfillment of an Inclusive Excellence Mini-Grant. This collection contains digitized materials from archival collections, oral history interview recordings, and interview transcripts created during and used in the project and exhibit. To learn more about the project visit the link below.