hannah baer – trans girl suicide museum

Have you ever wandered through a museum of your own emotions? A museum where your past thoughts and awkward social situations are displayed in a harsh light? And have you ever gotten so lost in it that you began to fear you would never find your way out?

baer gives us a glimpse into her personal archive, guiding us through the emotional lows of her second puberty, during which she manically records her shifting thoughts on gender, sexuality, and patriarchy while intoxicated on ketamine. She subjects everything to deep self-reflection, in which she acknowledges her class position, and interweaves her diary entries with critical theory, diagrams, and memes. The book is a candid travelogue of transition and a meditation on the hope of survival in today’s world.

hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist in psychoanalytic training who lives in New York. She publishes her memes on her Instagram account @malefragility.