Interview with T. Aaron Hans

T. Aaron Hans is a white butch transmasculine person who grew up in Germany and the United States and uses he and ze. At the time of this oral history, Hans was working as at Hamline University. In this oral history ze discusses hir 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. He also talks about his hopes for younger trans and queer communities.

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Identifier: 0c483j54d
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Hans, T. Aaron
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 25, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): 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
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Trump Administration
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Topic(s): Activism
Activists
AIDS activists
Bullying
Butches
Coming out
Community life
Discrimination
Employment discrimination
Family members
Femininities
Friendship
FtMs
Gay identity
Gay pride
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Harassment
HIV/AIDS
Hormones
Identity
Lesbians
LGBTI community
Love
Masculinities
Medication
Middle West
Passing (Gender)
Privilege (Social psychology)
Race
Sex
Social movements
Social norms
Sports
Transgender community
Transgender people
Transmasculine people
Voice therapy (Gender)
White transgender people
Whites--Race identity
Work
Youth
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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