Oral History with Christina Caldi, February 2020

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Title of Oral History
Oral History with Christina Caldi, February 2020
Abstract
Christina Caldi has lived in the Peel region her entire life and attended Loyola Catholic Secondary School. She began to explore her sexuality following a bad breakup in the beginning of University and describes herself as coming out ‘late’. She touches upon some formative moments that were influential for her, specifically when she read ‘Sing You Home’ by Jodi Picoult. She describes the relationship that she has with her family after she had come out to them, with some family members being supportive, but her main support group remains her close friends. When seeking queer spaces and people she has spent most of her time in the Village in Toronto. She also touches upon some volunteer work that she’s looking to do and the additional ways she wants to get involved with the community.
Name of Narrator
Christina Caldi
Names of Interviewer Team
Madeline Sara Medeiros Sousa, interviewer.
Date of Interview
2020-02-21
Oral History Interview
Oral History Interview
Location that the Narrator is discussing
Mississauga, ON, Canada
The time frame described in the interview.
2000's
file format
.mp4
Length
49 minutes, 49 seconds
Copyright holder
Narrator transfers all copyrights, and other intellectual and proprietary rights and waives all moral rights
CC license
Narrator transfers all copyrights, and other intellectual and proprietary rights and waives all moral rights he/she/they hold in the materials to The ArQuives and to the University of Toronto Libraries and Archives, jointly, with the agreement that each archive has the right to license these materials, subject to any privacy and consent restrictions or any other restrictions, for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International (by-nc) license.
Site pages
LGBTQ+ in Peel