Interview with Dominique Morgan

Interview with Dominique Morgan

Morgan, Dominique (interviewee)

2021-01-29

Dominique Morgan is a Black trans woman, prison abolition activist, and artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of this interview, Morgan was the Executive Director of Black and Pink, a nationwide prison abolitionist organization that provides direct services and support to currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people. Prior to her work with Black and Pink, Morgan was an adolescent sexual health educator with the Charles Drew Health Center in Omaha, was the first Black President of Nebraska Pride, and the creator of Nebraska Youth Pride. In this oral history interview, Morgan discusses her upbringing in a tight-knit, historic Black community in North Omaha, her entry into political organizing, community health work, and an abolitionist political consciousness, her time working at the Charles Drew Health Center and how that led her to Black and Pink, and her work as Executive Director. Additionally, she discusses her experiences of incarceration, thoughts on the potential of abolition and liberation, the need for a multifaceted approach to dismantle carceral systems, her thoughts on those systems' impacts on people, and her work as a singer-songwriter.

Minnesota Digital Library

English

moving image

http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:237

Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Phase 2