Collected Item: “Tammy Wilkerson Hill Fisher Oral History, 2022/08/06”
Title
Tammy Wilkerson Hill Fisher
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Tammy Wilkerson Hill Fisher
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?
#activism, #AfricanAmerican, #Albuquerque, #artist, #billionaires, #Black, #diabetes, #dog, #dolls, #EhlersDanlos, #family, #food, #guns, #hair, #homelessness, #intentionality, #masks, #minority, #motherhood, #NativeAmericans, #NewMexico, #pets, #podcasts, #police, #POTS, #queer, #race, #racism, #slavery, #touch, #trust, #water
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
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.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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.*
She/Her
What is the age of the interviewee?
55 to 64
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.*
Black/African American
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Starting a podcast during the pandemic about dolls; pandemic content in these podcasts.
A friend who made masks and sent them to friends and family before dying; difficulty determining cause of death: COVID and diabetes.
Changing messaging around masking.
New Mexico’s (Michelle Lujan Grisham) guidelines about numbers of people gathering during lockdown and the failure to consider large families in a state with many Catholics and Mormons.
The overrepresentation of BIPOC people in the service industry and COVID risk.
Motherhood as a blessing; race, immigration status and maternal mortality rates.
Having two adult children attending university from home during the pandemic; getting more time with family than expected.
Raising a child who was later diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; the expenses associated with trying to find a diagnosis.
Comparisons between general USA social support systems and UK social support.
The impact of the pandemic and pandemic-policies on Native Americans in New Mexico living in local pueblos; no running water; Navajo government.
Funeral expenses.
Nature taking back cities early in lockdown.
Giving up volunteerism during the pandemic.
Medical racism and distrust of healthcare authorities.
Younger generations choosing not to have children.
Obama’s election and racism in the USA; quiet racism getting louder and more public.
Police murdering Black people: Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and George Floyd.
Black men who died by hanging being deemed suicides, including Malcolm Harsh and Robert Fuller (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/22/black-victims-hanging-suicide/).
The murders of Muslim men in Albuquerque in 2022.
Avoiding routine medical care because of the pandemic.
Preparing to become an empty-nester as adult children return to campus for college.
How hard it is to comfort a stranger when you can’t touch; not interacting with newborns.
The importance of people in history.
The pandemic teaching us what it is like to live through history.
Other cultural references: Doll artist Jozef Szekeres’s podcast interview about living in China during the pandemic (https://www.inthedollworld.com/the-covid-interview-living-in/), Robert F. Smith, Oprah, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Charles Dickens, Matt Colvin’s hand sanitizer, Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), GoFundMe
See also:
https://curiositeej.com
https://www.inthedollworld.com
https://www.inthedollworld.com/tammy-fisher-co-host-of-in/
Starting a podcast during the pandemic about dolls; pandemic content in these podcasts.
A friend who made masks and sent them to friends and family before dying; difficulty determining cause of death: COVID and diabetes.
Changing messaging around masking.
New Mexico’s (Michelle Lujan Grisham) guidelines about numbers of people gathering during lockdown and the failure to consider large families in a state with many Catholics and Mormons.
The overrepresentation of BIPOC people in the service industry and COVID risk.
Motherhood as a blessing; race, immigration status and maternal mortality rates.
Having two adult children attending university from home during the pandemic; getting more time with family than expected.
Raising a child who was later diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; the expenses associated with trying to find a diagnosis.
Comparisons between general USA social support systems and UK social support.
The impact of the pandemic and pandemic-policies on Native Americans in New Mexico living in local pueblos; no running water; Navajo government.
Funeral expenses.
Nature taking back cities early in lockdown.
Giving up volunteerism during the pandemic.
Medical racism and distrust of healthcare authorities.
Younger generations choosing not to have children.
Obama’s election and racism in the USA; quiet racism getting louder and more public.
Police murdering Black people: Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and George Floyd.
Black men who died by hanging being deemed suicides, including Malcolm Harsh and Robert Fuller (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/22/black-victims-hanging-suicide/).
The murders of Muslim men in Albuquerque in 2022.
Avoiding routine medical care because of the pandemic.
Preparing to become an empty-nester as adult children return to campus for college.
How hard it is to comfort a stranger when you can’t touch; not interacting with newborns.
The importance of people in history.
The pandemic teaching us what it is like to live through history.
Other cultural references: Doll artist Jozef Szekeres’s podcast interview about living in China during the pandemic (https://www.inthedollworld.com/the-covid-interview-living-in/), Robert F. Smith, Oprah, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Charles Dickens, Matt Colvin’s hand sanitizer, Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), GoFundMe
See also:
https://curiositeej.com
https://www.inthedollworld.com
https://www.inthedollworld.com/tammy-fisher-co-host-of-in/
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-08-06T14:17