{"id":816,"date":"2026-01-10T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/?p=816"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:01:48","slug":"mitch-boucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/mitch-boucher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Boucher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mitch Boucher was interviewed by Ari Jewell on April 10 and April 18, 2021 on Zoom Platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narrator:<br>Mitch Boucher has lived in Northampton since 1998, and currently works as a professor at UMass Amherst in the \u201cUniversity Without Walls\u201d program. Prior to moving to Northampton, Boucher lived in Connecticut, where he grew up and got his undergraduate degree, and in Ohio, where he attended graduate school. He moved to Northampton to pursue a PhD at UMass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boucher has an educational background in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, American Studies, and English. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Boucher played an instrumental role in transgender activism in the Pioneer Valley. He founded the Trans Activist Network (TAN), which worked to educate the broader community on trans issues and create a network of support for trans folks. Boucher was also a member of the East Coast FTM Group, an employee of the Stonewall Center, and a board member of the Sexual Minorities Archives. Boucher lives with his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Boucher reflects on his early years in Northampton, including the formation of the Trans Activist Network and his participation in the East Coast FTM Group. He discusses the importance of education in his life, and how his education in Gender Studies helped to inform his trans identity. Boucher describes the role of trans community in his life overtime, and reflects on being a queer and trans parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interviewer:<br>Ari Jewell is a member of Smith College class of 2022. They major in the Study of Women and Gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note: this interview mentions alcohol and drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Northampton Pride &amp; Liberation: Mitch Boucher Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XcOg2MXdJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Boucher was interviewed by Ari Jewell on April 10 and April 18, 2021 on Zoom Platform. Narrator:Mitch Boucher has lived in Northampton since 1998, and currently works as a professor at UMass Amherst in the \u201cUniversity Without Walls\u201d program. Prior to moving to Northampton, Boucher lived in Connecticut, where he grew up and got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"noho-pride","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38,33,54,57,58,36],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northampton-pride","tag-activism","tag-east-coast-ftm-groupsupport-group","tag-education","tag-family","tag-transgender-parents","tag-transsexuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}