Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with T. Aaron Hans
T. Aaron Hans describes themselves as a butch transmasculine person. Ze has worked for 20 year as a national organizer for LGBTQIA justice and has worked with and been party of organizations such as the National LGBTQ Task Force, The Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Program; the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Trans Youth Support Network, The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, and the AIDS project. In this oral history ze discusses early understandings of gender identity at a young age; being heavily bullied in school; hir experience with transitioning; job discrimination; privilege; and a dichotomy between personal identity and how we are read in the world. Ze discusses hir hopes for younger trans and queer communities being able to express themselves more radically and being able to be authentic in an intersectional way.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 0c483j54d
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Hans, T. Aaron
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Feb. 25, 2017
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Creating Change
Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Program
Kate Bornstein
Leslie Feinberg
Minnie Bruce Pratt
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
Shadow Morton
Title IX
Trans Youth Support Network
Trump Administration
- Places
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Minnesota
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Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
- Topic(s)
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Activists
AIDS activists
Bullying
Coming out
Discrimination
Employment discrimination
Family members
Femininities
FtMs
Gay identity
Gay pride
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Hormones
Identity
Lesbians
LGBTI community
Masculinities
Medication
Passing (Gender)
Social norms
Sports
Transgender community
Transgender people
Voice therapy (Gender)
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
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Copyright undetermined
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