Interview with Jessi Brandon

Jessi Brandon is freshman studying at Macalester College, who recently moved from Enterprise, Alabama to St. Paul, Minnesota. In this interview, they discuss growing up in Germany; early childhood experiences of their gender awareness; the challenges with exploring their masculine non-binary identity and partially coming out at boarding school; and moving to college and being able to fully express themself. Brandon discusses the current shift in U.S. politics and their thoughts on how they think this will affect transgender/non-binary communities, LGBQ communities; and people of color. They also detail their experience with Asperger’s Syndrome and their hopes for transgender and non-binary communities in the future, on resistance, and legitimizing identities.

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Identifier: bz60cw49m
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Brandon, Jessi
Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 27, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Jessi Brandon
Trump Administration
Places: Minnesota > Ramsey County > City of Saint Paul > Macalester College
Alabama > Coffee County > Enterprise
Baden-Württemberg > Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart > Stadtkreis Stuttgart > Stuttgart
Topic(s): Autism spectrum disorders
Bisexuality
Black people
Boarding schools
Christianity
Gender diversity
Gender minorities
Masculinities
Neurotic disorders
Politics
Resistance movements
Sexual orientation
Transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
Related URL: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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