Interview with Emerson Steiner Hayward

An interview with Emerson Steiner Hayward, a white, Ashkenazi Jewish, trans-masc, and nonbinary individual based in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this oral history interview with Macalester College student Sarah Garrett-Engele, Hayward discusses their upbringing and early experiences of gender, their process of transition and coming to understand themself as a trans person, their experiences around transness and gender nonconformity in workplace and education settings, their work on crisis hotlines and in recovery settings, their thoughts on the field of recovery, mental health, and harm reduction, their visions of the future, and their dog, Lexie.

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Identifier: t148fh47n
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Steiner Hayward, Emerson
Contributor(s): Garrett-Engele, Sarah
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Date Created: Nov. 22, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Places: Minnesota > Ramsey County > City of Saint Paul > Saint Paul
Topic(s): Harm reduction
Jewish LGBTQ+ people
Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people
Non-binary people
Transgender people in the workplace
Transitioning (Gender)
Transmasculine people
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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