Grace Dunham

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Cyrus Grace Dunham (born January 28, 1992 in New York City , New York ) is of American nationality and active as a writer and activist . Dunham calls 2016 non-binary as gender identity and claims to be designated in a gender-neutral way with the singular pronoun they (untranslatable in German). Some journalists also use this type of formulation when reporting on Dunham.

Life

Grace Dunham's parents are artist and photographer Laurie Simmons ( Jewish ) and painter Carroll Dunham ( Protestant ). The sister Lena Dunham describes her upbringing as feminist. Dunham attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn , where he wrote for the school newspaper and worked on the yearbook. For the poem Twin Oaks , Dunham received the Louise Louis / Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America . After school, Dunham was accepted into Brown University with a degree in urban science.

Early career

Dunham appeared several times in Teen Vogue magazine and first appeared in 2006 as a 13-year-old art dealer in the film Dealing ; the older sister Lena wrote the script and directed.

In 2010, Dunham appeared as the little sister in Lena's indie film Tiny Furniture , then in Happy Birthday, Marsha! and in A Smeary Spot , a multi-channel video by artist AK Burns.

Dunham made the model debut in 2015 and appeared on Eckhaus Latta's gender-neutral catwalk show in the spring of 2016. Dunham is a columnist for The New Yorker and in collaboration with transgender activist Reina Gosset.

Dunham was one of nine people who appeared on fullscreen in the 2016 video series The What's Underneath Project for StyleLikeU. In it, Dunham undressed completely, describing the feeling as a transgender person.

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Grace Dunham:

  • 2016: The Fool (English; collection of poems and short essays; online).

Cyrus Grace Dunham:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lydia Morrish: Grace Dunham Lifts The Lid On Being Non-Binary In A Privileged World. In: Konbini.com. September 27, 2016, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Cyrus Grace Dunham: A Year Without a Name: Was the problem gender - or me? In: The New Yorker . August 12, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Grace Dunham: The Fool. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 2016, accessed on December 6, 2019 (English). Note: The text is only available in an archived version.
  4. ↑ Blanka Giehl: Who Is Grace Dunham, Lena Dunham's Sister? In: Showbiz Cheat Sheet. December 14, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ Raquel Willis: Books: Cyrus Grace Dunham Gets Real About the Messiness of Identity. In: Out.com . December 3, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019.
  6. ↑ Cyrus Grace Dunham: Women of the Year - Cyrus Grace Dunham: “Pretending to Be a Girl for Much of My Life Made Hiding the Norm, Not the Exception”. In: Glamour.com . November 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dunham, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunham, Cyrus Grace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA