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Rook Hine is a 47-year-old transfemme non-binary person from Connecticut. In this interview, Hine describe their life experiences, from challenges in her household, zir benefits and complications within education, and finding their identity as ze grew up. They discuss masking, performing arts as an outlet for gender expression, activism in college and beyond. Ze also mentions developing their non-binary identity, use of the term metagender, polyamory, and internalized transphobia, as well as adventures around the country - attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York, spending time in New Orleans as a tarot card reader, stripper, and phone sex operator after college, going to Los Angeles for a CalArts acting MFA program and doing porn, and Nevada doing political activism for the Al Gore campaign.
In our second interview, Rook Hine spends time discussing a more difficult period in their life. This section involved a lot of conversation around alcoholism and domestic violence. We ended the interview discussing Rook Hine’s work with MaineTransNet.
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.
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Publication Date
11-20-2022
Publisher
University of Southern Maine Special Collections
City
Portland
Keywords
PTSD, alcoholism, bullying, puberty, gender performance, performing arts, bisexuality, sexual assault, parental relationships, coming out, pansexuality, metagender, nonbinary, Bisexual Liberation Organization, Sarah Lawrence College, Queer Nation, internalized transphobia, media representation, polyamory, stripping, porn, political activism, Al Gore. Domestic violence, alcoholism, parental challenges, coming out, polyamory, political activism, law school, Lukumí, Brunswick, MaineTransNet.
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Bolduc, Ty, "Hine, Rook" (2022). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 90.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/90
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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History of Gender Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Oral History Commons, Women's Studies Commons
