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| pronouns=[[he/him]]<ref name="Williams">{{Cite web |title=Listen to Trans Singer-Songwriter Jana Hunter of Lower Dens' Summer of Pride Mix: 'There Is a Place Here, Even For You' |last=Williams |first=Nick |work=Billboard |date=16 August 2019 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8527644/listen-trans-artist-lower-dens-jana-hunter-summer-of-pride-playlist-interview}}</ref>

| gender=[[genderfluid]]<ref name="Hunter2015">{{Cite web |title=What It's Like to Be a Female Musician When You Don't Identify as a Woman |last=Hunter |first=Jana |work=Cosmopolitan |date=10 April 2015 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a38918/jana-hunter-lower-dens-essay/}}</ref>

'''Jana Hunter''' is a Baltimore-based songwriter and musician. He has stated that the characters in his songs are all [[genderless]].<ref name="Mason">{{Cite web |title=Jana Hunter Of Lower Dens Embraces Synth-Pop, Self-Expression |author=Mason, Amelia |work=WBUR |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.wbur.org/artery/2015/06/11/lower-dens}}</ref>

"I insisted on being referred to and treated as and ''being'' a boy at my Christian preschool, at our church, around our populous extended family, and in every public arena. What made it worse for my parents was that I did look and act like a boy and many people assumed I was a boy and were just confused about why I was announcing it until they figured it out and then they immediately let my parents know exactly what they thought of them with a pair of razor sharp dagger eyes. I am quite certain it was awful for my parents."<ref name="Hunter2014">{{Cite web |title=ON PRIDE (and gender) |author=Hunter, Jana |work=LOWER DENS |date=1 July 2014 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/90448691182/on-pride-and-gender}}</ref>

"It's very difficult to process [[discrimination]] towards oneself and at the same time, it can be difficult, even in the face of it, to recognize it as such. Like, is somebody staring at me because I have something leaking out of a hole in my face, or is somebody staring at me because they can't identify a gender in me and that makes them uncomfortable? I don't know, and part of me wishes that I did't even wonder. And that's about as far as I get with it these days. I don’t ask or confront. I just have other things I'm interested in doing besides that. It takes a lot of energy. It’s too exhausting to confront."<ref name="Weiss">{{Cite web |title=ARTIST INTERVIEW: Jana Hunter |last=Weiss |first=Suzannah |work=Audiofemme |date=20 February 2017 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.audiofemme.com/artist-interview-jana-hunter-2/}}</ref>