Acknowledgements
Thank you to Dr. Lynne Joyrich and Dr. Teddy Pozo, my thesis advisor and second reader, for their unending guidance and support, academic and otherwise. I wish I had been able to take all your suggested trajectories into account.
Thank you to Dr. Virginia Thomas, who taught a course on the theory and practice of queer oral history in the spring of 2020 and without whom I would never have begun this project.
Thank you to Elli Mylonas and Andrew Creamer at the Center for Digital Scholarship for your assistance in figuring out all things digital, from file hosting to Scalar code to eventual archiving.
Thank you to Linda Huang, not only for the friendship and the interview but for the tech support, especially the JavaScript code for collapsible transcript text.
Thank you to Ty Gale for the impromptu 1 AM website copyediting, because after enough hours staring at a piece of text, words no longer look real.
Thank you to my housemates, Jasper Solt, Scout Brynn, and Evan Schwarz, for your reassurance, your brainstorming, your patience, and your warmth.
Thank you to everyone who has listened to me complain about how much work I made for myself, how nothing will ever get done in time, and how exhausted I am. That includes you, mom, and nearly everyone else already mentioned by name.
Thank you to Friends at the Table, for showing me that a better world is possible, and that critical conversations are not found only in the academy.
Finally, thank you to my oral history narrators: Arp, Beau, Kavi, Linda, Marcus, and Nico. I knew from the start that my project would be in collaboration, but I did not anticipate the sheer passion and power you all brought to your interviews. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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Trans at the Table: Queer Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom was produced by Finch Collins as his undergraduate thesis for the Department of Modern Culture and Media Honors Program at Brown University, 2021.