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Addison Geer

June 27, 2025

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Hudson, NY

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Jenny Yu

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Summary:

This interview was conducted at the Spark of Hudson in Hudson, NY, on June 27, 2025. Addison is a 20-year-old from Hudson, NY, and currently works at Operation Unite. In their interview, Addison shares about their childhood in Hudson between their adoptive family’s home and later moving to their biological family’s home. Addison discusses discovering their sexuality and experiences being a gay young person in Hudson, including the support received by the Hudson community as well as social harassment they received from peers in high school. Addison also shares accounts of family support, love of anime and music, important mentors, their mental health journey, and hopes for their future and the future of Hudson. Some issues Addison discusses in their interview include the importance of youth programs, drug use among youth, and mental health awareness. Toward the end of the interview, Addison shares about their family members, including their biological siblings: a twin sister and a younger sister, and their adoptive siblings, two sisters and three brothers. Willy, one of Addison’s adoptive brothers, passed away a month before the interview recording date. Addison shared his experiences with the grief of his brother, as well as the grief of his adoptive mother when he was six years old.

This interview may be of interest to those who want to learn about youth issues in Hudson, LGBTQ identity and experiences, adopted and biological families, and grieving family members.

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Interviewer Bio:
Jenny Yu

Jennifer Yu is Los Angeles-based Filipina-Chinese American writer, editor, educator, and emerging oral historian interested in how oral history can provide individual and collective restoration and discovery. She studied English and Journalism at Loyola MarymountUniversity and then earned her Master of Education from the University of Notre Dame. She now serves her community as a writer for a trade publication, an audio editor and transcriber for oral historians, and a social media manager for Slant’d, an independent publishing house uplifting Asian American voices. She is interested in the intersections of grief, memory, spirituality, racial identity development, community building, and art as activism.

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