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19K Followers, 225 Following, 104 Posts - Jennie June (@jenniejune) on Instagram: "40% social butterfly, 80% introvert, bad at math 🦋".
- Early Life
- Education
- Career
- Identity and Transition
- Community and Activism
- Autobiography
- The Riddle of The Underworld
- Mowry Saben Theory
- Legacy
- Bibliography
Jennie June wrote that he was born into a Puritan family in 1874 in Connecticut. He was assigned male at birth. At the time of his birth, his mother was 28 (born circa 1846), and his father 32 (born circa 1842). June was their fourth child out of eleven children.His family was white, middle-class, and wealthy.
June became very shy and introverted when his parents sent him off to a boys' school.The other students had been sent to boarding school because of being especially boisterous and needing strict discipline. June graduated with honors from a university in uptown New York. That may have been Columbia University. Then, June went on to graduate study, ...
In his professional life, June presented as a man. He had a reputation for being an innocent who was startled and uncomfortable when men around him made sexual talk. As a result, most people did not suspect another aspect to his life. He was known for being very studious and hard-working. June was a law clerk for Clark Bell, who was the editor of T...
During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, people did not yet use words like transgender, transsexual, gay, or non-binary gender. June described himself with all of these contemporary words for his gender and sexual variance: 1. androgyne, an ancient word meaning one who has a combination of masculine and feminine qualities. 2. invert, a contemporary...
As a young adult, June found safe havens in places such as the gay bar Paresis Hallin New York City to express his feminine identity. Paresis Hall, or Columbia Hall, was one of many establishments considered the center of homosexual nightlife where male prostitutes would do as female prostitutes did, soliciting men under an effeminate persona. Plac...
June published his first autobiography, The Autobiography of an Androgyne, in 1918, and his second, The Female-Impersonators, in 1922. Therefore June is one of the first transgender, or gender nonconforming, Americans to publicize their own story. In June's preface to the book, June explains that he has kept diaries of his life and that his autobio...
In 2010, Dr. Randall Sell, a professor at Drexel University, became intrigued by the first two volumes of the trilogy. After searching for around twenty years for the long-lost third volume, he finally discovered the partial manuscript in the archives of the National Library of Medicine. Called The Riddle of the Underworld, written in 1921, this th...
Currently, historians do not certainly know the date of June's life and death. Channing Gerard Joseph theorizes that that June was likely Mowry Saben (1870–1950), the writer and journalist. Saben was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, into a prominent family, and had a younger sister, Jennie. He graduated from Harvard University, Oxford University, a...
June left instructions for the creation of a memorial plaque. June wanted the plaque to be placed on the Grand Street facade of a new police building, near the site of his debut, where he had first taken the name Jennie June. A police building could be considered an intriguing choice, because police harassed and terrorized June and his friends, giv...
Autobiography of an Androgyne, published 1918The Female-impersonators, published 1922The Riddle of the Underworld, written in 1921, unpublished. Only three chapters of the manuscript are known to surviveAmerican by birth, ladylike by the grace of God. Gypsy. Carnivore. Simplicity. You can't Photoshop real life, bitches!Instagram: @JennieJune.
19. Juli 2023 · Jennie June (pseudonyms Ralph Werther and Earl Lind, 1874 - ?) was a Victorian and Edwardian era writer and activist for the rights of people who didn't conform to gender and sexual norms. He was one of the earliest transgender individuals to publish an autobiography in the United States.
13. Okt. 2022 · The trailblazing trilogy tells the author’s remarkable life story, describing first-hand experiences of gender nonconformity, sexual attraction, and physical intimacy with men from the 1870s to the 1920s — before today’s terms for sexual and gender identity had been invented.
1. Nov. 2023 · Published in: November-December 2023 issue. BY DAY, the pseudonymous Jennie June lived a respectable, middle-class life in early 20th-century New York. By night, he traipsed through the shadows of working-class communities as a woman, cruising soldiers and other trade.
Jane Cunningham Croly (née Cunningham; December 19, 1829 – December 23, 1901) was a British-born American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York.
