Donna Personna on Memory as Resistance

Call Me Mother by Novel

Jun 24, 202223:32Society & Culture

Shon speaks to Donna Personna, an American trans campaigner and writer who, as a teenager, frequented the famous Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco. In 1966, three years before the Stonewall Riots in New York, it...

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