Interview With Owen Marciano

Owen Marciano is a genderqueer individual from Rochester, NY. In this oral history, Owen shares Owen’s experiences of coming to terms with Owen’s identity in a narrative that is nontraditional from many other narratives of trans experience. Owen discusses recognizing Owen’s identity in a New York University graduate school program and the difficulties of not having language to describe identity right away. Owen shares experiences from emotional and physical abuse at home as a child; the difficulty of living beyond a gender binary but being read within one; experiences with masculinity; the issues with gender essentialism and that which exists in trans communities; transitioning; to building community and creating chosen family within the Twin Cities. Owen has been a part of many organizations in the Twin Cities including Gender Blur, the Transgender Health Coalition, and the University of Minnesota’s Transgender Commission. Owen discusses things such as fatness, medical discrimination, dating, vulnerability, the beauty in transgressing gender and its rigid constructs, and shares hopes about continuing intersectional and revolutionary work within queer trans communities so that trans identities and histories can one day be recognized as valid.

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Identifier: jh343s452
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Marciano, Owen
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Dec. 5, 2015
Genre: Oral Histories
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Topic(s): Acceptance
Body image
Bullying
Child abuse
Class struggle
Depression
Discrimination
Femininities
Gender diversity
Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender role
Genderfluid identity
Hormone therapy
Hysterectomy
Masculinities
Menstruation
Mental health
Self-acceptance
Suicide
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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