Collected Item: “Lukas Soto Oral History, 2022/05/30”
Title
Lukas Soto
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Lukas Soto
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#12steps, #4directions, #9/11, #addiction, #adjunctification, #ADHD, #advocacy, #AIDS, #ageism, #allergies, #Anishinaabe, #Arizona, #Chilean, #Chippewa, #college, #concert, #death, #dystopia, #dog, #education, #equity, #fatphobia, #flu, #imperialism, #Indigenous, #Latino, #Mapuche, #MCT, #medicalracism, #mixedrace, #NAGPRA, #NativeAmerican, #Nevada, #opioids, #Paiute, #police, #Portland, #prison, #queer, #race, #racism, #rape, #relationships, #reservation, #risk, #shadow, #shame, #spirituality, #suicide, #therapy, #touch, #trans, #trauma, #TwoSpirit, #vaccination, #Vancouver, #Washington, #whitesupremacy
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Vancouver, Washington
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
two-spirit, non-binary person of transgender experience. Pronouns: they/them English and elle in Spanish
What is the age of the interviewee?
25 to 34
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
Mixed-race Chilean Mapuche, Minnesota Chippewa (Anishinaabe), and mixed western european.
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Living with their Elder, Dean Barlese; dialysis, diabetic, immunocompromised. Making precautions to protect Elders. Taking risks to protect Elders.
Father’s death in prison in Arizona, June 2020; traveling to wash and prepare the body.
Apprenticing in traditional death work; death work and Two Spirits. Rising awareness about the importance of BIPOC in death work, ancestral knowledge and death work.
Training as an End of Life doula.
Medical racism and food desserts.
Gender bias in diagnosis.
Assisting others in getting medical care during the pandemic, amputation.
The ripple effects of anti-racism in the wake of George Floyd.
The National Guard and Portland police officers terrorizing people during the George Floyd protest.
Slowing down.
Having been a teen mother, going to prison as a teenager, sobering up, entering higher education and leaving education.
Torture in prisons. COVID in the prisons. Trans women in prison. Solitary confinement.
Indigenous people having survived several apocalyptic times before this pandemic.
Previous individual traumas preparing people for the traumas of this moment.
Holistic medicines. First foods.
Losing ceremony during the pandemic.
Western medicine, insurance codes, for profit healthcare.
Trans people as the scapegoat and boogey men of American conservative politics.
Trump’s erosion of trans rights. Transphobic health inequities and disease disparities.
Having friends who caught COVID in Jan 2020; long-COVID.
Capitalism determining public health policy. Medicaid. Interstate travel for healthcare.
Dating a nurse at the beginning of the pandemic; different risk tolerance thresholds; positionality and safety; positionality and life expectancy.
Communication, lessons from safer sex.
Shrinking friendship circles.
Comparisons with the flu vaccine.
Changing ideas about the value of education and credentialism. Missing out on graduation. Losing faith in educational systems. The lived reality of students in poverty. Pedagogical violence. The absence of teachers and professors of color.
People of color and other marginalized people in positions of leadership.
Racial equity work.
The California forest fires.
High functioning burn out.
White supremacy is toxic to everyone.
Seeing health through the lens of the medicine wheel. Cosmology.
Comparing stigma around HIV/AIDS and COVID. Touch and health. Spirituality and health.
Affection in Latino culture.
Mass shootings. Children living with the reality that they could be murdered in the classroom.
The mass shooting murder in Buffalo, NY on 14 May 2022.
History is not as far away as one might imagine: Elders who are still alive remembering the first hand accounts of the Indian Wars and Snake Wars.
https://www.lukasmsoto.com
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=579285719969799&_rdr
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2019/08/16/erased-how-transgender-parent-being-kept-his-son
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indigenous-lgbtq-youth-face-difficult-challenge-with-new-laws
Other cultural references include: Adverse Childhood Experiences score, Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, INELDA, BLM, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Ikea relationship test, Greenland Icecap, climate refugees, Judith Butler social death and grievability, Descartes, Lewis and Clark College, Cloud technology
Living with their Elder, Dean Barlese; dialysis, diabetic, immunocompromised. Making precautions to protect Elders. Taking risks to protect Elders.
Father’s death in prison in Arizona, June 2020; traveling to wash and prepare the body.
Apprenticing in traditional death work; death work and Two Spirits. Rising awareness about the importance of BIPOC in death work, ancestral knowledge and death work.
Training as an End of Life doula.
Medical racism and food desserts.
Gender bias in diagnosis.
Assisting others in getting medical care during the pandemic, amputation.
The ripple effects of anti-racism in the wake of George Floyd.
The National Guard and Portland police officers terrorizing people during the George Floyd protest.
Slowing down.
Having been a teen mother, going to prison as a teenager, sobering up, entering higher education and leaving education.
Torture in prisons. COVID in the prisons. Trans women in prison. Solitary confinement.
Indigenous people having survived several apocalyptic times before this pandemic.
Previous individual traumas preparing people for the traumas of this moment.
Holistic medicines. First foods.
Losing ceremony during the pandemic.
Western medicine, insurance codes, for profit healthcare.
Trans people as the scapegoat and boogey men of American conservative politics.
Trump’s erosion of trans rights. Transphobic health inequities and disease disparities.
Having friends who caught COVID in Jan 2020; long-COVID.
Capitalism determining public health policy. Medicaid. Interstate travel for healthcare.
Dating a nurse at the beginning of the pandemic; different risk tolerance thresholds; positionality and safety; positionality and life expectancy.
Communication, lessons from safer sex.
Shrinking friendship circles.
Comparisons with the flu vaccine.
Changing ideas about the value of education and credentialism. Missing out on graduation. Losing faith in educational systems. The lived reality of students in poverty. Pedagogical violence. The absence of teachers and professors of color.
People of color and other marginalized people in positions of leadership.
Racial equity work.
The California forest fires.
High functioning burn out.
White supremacy is toxic to everyone.
Seeing health through the lens of the medicine wheel. Cosmology.
Comparing stigma around HIV/AIDS and COVID. Touch and health. Spirituality and health.
Affection in Latino culture.
Mass shootings. Children living with the reality that they could be murdered in the classroom.
The mass shooting murder in Buffalo, NY on 14 May 2022.
History is not as far away as one might imagine: Elders who are still alive remembering the first hand accounts of the Indian Wars and Snake Wars.
https://www.lukasmsoto.com
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=579285719969799&_rdr
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2019/08/16/erased-how-transgender-parent-being-kept-his-son
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indigenous-lgbtq-youth-face-difficult-challenge-with-new-laws
Other cultural references include: Adverse Childhood Experiences score, Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, INELDA, BLM, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Ikea relationship test, Greenland Icecap, climate refugees, Judith Butler social death and grievability, Descartes, Lewis and Clark College, Cloud technology
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-05-30T10:07