Interview Olivia Hnlicka

Olivia “Liv” Hnilicka is a white trans woman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing and early life as a queer person, her move to Chicago at the age of eighteen, and her involvement with community theater groups for LGBTQ youth there. Hnilicka tells of her experiences in both the bear subculture and the experimental drag scene of Chicago, and the relationship between her drag performance and gender identity, before pivoting to further discussion on later-in-life transition, her experiences of passing and the medical establishment, her thoughts on trans visibility politics, and her vision of what a thriving trans community would look like.

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Identifier: bc386j42c
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Hnlicka, Olivia
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Jan. 14, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): About Face Youth Theatre
Annoyance Theatre
Bear Culture
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Coed Prison Sluts
Crusty Girl
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Vogue Magazine
Places: Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Wisconsin > Milwaukee County > City of Milwaukee > Milwaukee
Wisconsin > Dane County > City of Madison > Madison
Wisconsin > Racine > City of Racine
Florida > Pinellas > Dunedin
Wisconsin > Milwaukee > City of Wauwatosa > Wauwatosa
Midwest
Topic(s): Acceptance
Appearance
Art
Assigned gender
Beauty standards
Butches
Capitalism
Cisgender people
Coming out
Crossdressers
Crossdressing
Death and dying
Depression
Drag
Family members
Femininities
Femmes
Friendship
Gay community
Gender identity
Gender-affirming care
Hair
Hair--Removal
Health
Heterosexuality
HIV/AIDS
Homeless people
Homelessness
Hormone therapy
Hormones
LGBTQ+ communities
Love
Masculinities
Medical care
Medicalisation
MtFs
Passing (Gender)
Religions
Sex
Sexual orientation
Sexual practices
Sexuality
Soft butches
Suburbs
Suicide
Transgender community
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Travel
White LGBTQ+ people
White people
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
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