7th Grade Diary - Anne Frank Assignment
date: label: date used
content: 1984-10-10 - 1985-05-15
label: Associated Date
content: 1984-10-10 - 1985-05-15
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7th grade journal originally assigned as Englekirk's class read Anne Franks’ diary. According to the collecting curator, "He wrote his “journal entries” the night before the assignment was due, but when the teacher returned the journal he began keeping it more seriously. It provided him a place to share his thoughts and feelings." This journal also mentions his friend Max whom he would use as one of his middle names.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Jordan Max-Ryan Englekirk was born intersex in 1972 and because he looked like a girl, grew up as Jennifer. Englekirk has personally identified as male for most of his life and growing up struggled with this dichotomy. Often bullied in school and berated by teachers and adults in his life, Englekirk finally made the transition to male in 2012, at 40 years old. He now lives as a man but during high school, while still living as Jennifer, Englekirk became a member of the girls’ softball team and soon was a leader on the diamond. Sports was an important outlet for creating his identity. Englekirk kept sports in his life as an adult and eventually became the first woman to ump at Cooperstown Little Majors Stadium for Little League tournament games.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0169.04
label: accession number
content: 2018.0169
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0169.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diary
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 in x 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 17.78 cm x .635 cm