Transrural Lives: Digitally Capturing the Stories of Transgender Older Adults in the Pacific Northwest

FAIN: RZ-300050-24

Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA 98926-7599)
Griff Tester (Project Director: November 2023 to present)

Research leading to a digital repository documenting the lives of transgender adults living in rural Pacific Northwest (36 months).

Project Description A Scholarly Digital Projects application, TransRural Lives is the first digital storytelling project that, through interviews, archival materials, and scholarly interpretation, explores the lives of transgender older adults from non-metro areas in the Pacific Northwest. This digital project seeks to document and make accessible these understudied narratives and the transgender histories they reveal through an interactive website. TransRural Lives offers analytical examinations of thematics related to transgender older adults and rural living left out of prevailing socio-political discussions. The website will contain at least 600 audio vignettes that will be tagged and categorized in relation to the themes identified in our narrative analyses, as well as transcriptions, relevant documents from collaborator archives, scholarly guides, and data visualizations. Peer-reviewed scholarly articles and public-facing outputs will raise additional awareness of the project.