Episode 64 -Andrea Jenkins, The T is Not Silent
Andrea Jenkins is the first Black transgender woman to be elected to public office in the United States. She was elected to the Minneapolis City Council with 73% of the vote. She is a poet, and an artist as well as a public official. Andrea is the author of the poetry collection The T is Not Silent , New and Selected Poems , and contributor to the acclaimed anthologies, Queer Voices, Poetry, Prose, and Pride . A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota , and Blues Vision: African American writing from Minnesota . Jenkins is also an oral historian for the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries documenting the lived experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming people in the upper Midwest and in the United States.