Andrea James

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Andrea Jean James (* 16th January 1967 ) is an American transgender - human rights - activist , film producer , director and writer .

James grew up in Indiana and was educated at Wabash College and the University of Chicago . After college, James worked in Chicago for ten years. From 1996 she created consumer sites Transsexual Road Map, HairFacts and HairTell. James has written for Boing Boing , The Advocate , The Huffington Post, and The Atlantic .

James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with writer and entertainer Calpernia Addams . They produced how-to videos and produced and appeared on the first transgender cast of The Vagina Monologues and brought out a new piece written by Eve Ensler . James then appeared in Transamerica in 2005 and trained film star Felicity Huffman .

She worked with other transgender women, including Lynn Conway and Deirdre McCloskey , to end the academic exploitation of transgender people.

James wrote several books and consulted authors, including the autobiography of Mark 947 from the year 2002 by Calpernia Addams, the autobiography Pholomolo by Veronique Renard in 2007, the self-help book in 2014, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves and self-help parody Suck Less of Willam Belli . She worked with Deanne Thornton as co-editor on the anthology Letters for My Sisters (2014). It is in the photo books Vagina Warriors by Eve Ensler and Joyce Tenneson and The World According to Wonder by World of Wonder, in the Instructions for Use Facial Feminization Surgery by Douglas Ousterhout, and in 51%: Women and the Future of Politics by Terri Spahr Nelson.

James has worked with social media platforms like Facebook through content moderation and community standards. In 2016 she worked with Tinder on introducing gender-specific profile options.

In 2014 she directed Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy , a comedy film with Alec Mapa . In 2016, she took part in the Intelligence Squared gender identity discussion filmed in Sydney for BBC World News . She was the producer of the 2017 documentary Gender Revolution with Katie Couric .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nichols, James Michael. This Trans Pioneer Has Been Fighting For The Trans Community For Decades. Huffington Post , July 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Keck, William. Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty. USA Today , November 21, 2005.
  3. ↑ Surkan, K. "Transsexuals protest academic exploitation." In Faderman, Lillian (ed). Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events, 1848-2006 . Salem Press, 2007, pp. 700-702. ISBN 9781587652653
  4. ↑ James, Andrea. "A defining moment in our history: Examining disease models of gender identity" ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Gender Medicine , 2006 (3; 1) p. S56 doi : 10.1016 / S1550-8579 (06) 80121-X @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsroadmap.com
  5. ↑ Addams, Calpernia. Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender, and Force of Will. Writers Club Press, 2002. ISBN 0-595-26376-3
  6. ↑ Renard, Veronique. Pholomolo: No Man No Woman. iUniverse, 2007. ISBN 978-0595446698
  7. ↑ Erickson-Schroth, Laura. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community . Oxford University Press , 2014. ISBN 9780199325351
  8. ↑ Belli, Willam. Suck Less: Where There's a Willam, There's a Way. Grand Central Publishing, 2016 ISBN 978-1455566198
  9. ↑ Kellaway, Mitch, Trans Women Share Wisdom 'By Us, For Us'. The Advocate , July 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ 10 Must-Read Books When You're Having Gender Questions. SheWired , October 22, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kellaway, Mitch, The Year's 10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books. The Advocate , November 5, 2014.
  12. ↑ Bailey, Fenton; Barbato, Randy. The World According to Wonder. World of Wonder Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0985583408
  13. ^ Ensler, Eve; Tenneson, Joyce. Vagina Warriors . New York: Bulfinch Press, 2005, p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8212-6183-5
  14. ↑ Ousterhout, Douglas. Facial Feminization Surgery: A Guide for the Transgendered Woman . Addicus Books, 2010. ISBN 1938803221
  15. ↑ Nelson, Terri Spahr. 51%: Women and the Future of Politics: Women speak out on US politics and politicians. Sugati Publications, 2016. ISBN 978-0982580677
  16. ↑ Eldon, Eric. Facebook Begins Testing Advanced Crowd-Sourced Content Moderation. Adweek , January 4, 2010.
  17. ↑ Steinmetz, Katy. The Inside Story Behind Tinder's New Gender Options. Time , November 14, 2016.
  18. ↑ Snyder, Benjamin. How Tinder Is Making Dating Easier for Transgender Users. Fortune , June 3, 2016.
  19. ↑ Titlow, John Paul. Tinder Reengineers Its Gender Field, With Help From The Trans Community. Fast Company , November 15, 2016.
  20. ↑ Treharne, Trevor. Transgender rights move into their recognition era. Seven News , February 26, 2016.

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SURNAME James, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES James, Andrea Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1967