Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Maxwell Poessnecker
Maxwell Poessnecker is a white trans masculine person raised in Nebraska who goes by he and sometimes they. At the time of this interview, Poessnecker was working as the Associate Director of Student Life and Director of LGBTQ Services at Century College. In this oral history, Poessnecker speaks at length about masculinity, his family relationships, naming, gender in rural Nebraska, and his childhood experiences with gender and sexuality. They also touch upon ageism, "undercover feminism", and their encounters with healthcare.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- t435gd14b
- 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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Poessnecker, Maxwell
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jul. 6, 2017
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Queer for Career
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Nebraska
- Topic(s)
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Appearance
Assigned gender
Bullying
Clothing
Coming out
Counseling
Discrimination
Education
Families
Farm life
Feminism
FtMs
Gender diversity
Gender identity
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Health
Health care
Lesbian identity
Love
Masculinities
Mastectomy
Medical care
Mental health
Middle West
Passing (Gender)
Privilege (Social psychology)
Separation
Sex
Sexual orientation
Surgery
Transgender community
Transgender people
Whites--Race identity
Work
- 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/
- Rights
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In copyright
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