Interview of Hannah Baer

Hannah Baer discusses her journey to transition, influential early experiences in activist spaces with organizations such as Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, psychotherapy training, and navigation of online spaces as a trans woman. She shares wide-ranging thoughts on queer communities, her subjectivity and relationship to privilege, and pivotal moments in her relationship to her identity as a trans woman. At the end of the interview, Hannah and the interviewer play a pop psych quiz game called the cube game. Hannah is currently writing a manuscript exploring the cultural and historical contingencies of identity categories.

Date of Interview:

December 1, 2021

Location of Interview:

Chinatown, New York City

Place of birth:

Massachusetts

Pronouns:

She/Her

Interviewed by

Aviva Silveman

Summary by

Jo M