OK Tillett Wright

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IO Tillett Wright

iO Tillett Wright (born September 2, 1985 in Lower East Side , Manhattan , New York City , New York ) is an American author , photographer , television presenter and activist .

Childhood and youth

iO Tillett Wright was born on September 2, 1985 in Lower East Side , Manhattan ( New York City ). His mother, Rebecca Wright, is a photographer . He was born a girl but lived as a boy for eight years during his childhood.

Career

He had his first public appearance in the film In Last Consequence (1997), where he played a boy named "Walter". He later appeared in supporting roles in several episodes of Sex and the City .

As of 2010, Wright wrote numerous columns for the New York Times Style Magazine (T Magazine). He also worked on the “Self Evident Truths” project, in which he photographed Americans who do not define themselves as 100 percent heterosexual . To date, over 9,500 people have given the project their face.

In 2012 he had an appearance at the TED talk TEDxWomen in Washington, DC Under the title "Fifty Shades of Gay" he spoke about the topics of sexuality and gender as spectra. The video has been viewed over 2.6 million times to date. He is now a frequent guest speaker at universities.

In 2016, Wright co-hosted the MTV show Suspect with Nev Schulman . His first book, Darling Days, A Memoir , was published on September 27, 2016 by Ecco Books, an imprint of HarperCollins . The German edition will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag in September 2017 .

Personal

Wright described herself in a 2014 article as “a woman who has masculine qualities and many feminine qualities,” and there would be nothing wrong with that. With the publication of his memoirs in 2016, Wright clearly declared himself a trans man who also claims male pronouns .

In the same year he sided with Amber Heard , with whom he is friends, when these abuse allegations against her longtime partner Johnny Depp raised. The case caused controversy among the public. Wright now lives in Los Angeles .

Publications

  • Darling Days, A Memoir. 2016 (English).
    • German: Darling Days: My life between the sexes. Translated from the English by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-46803-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile: “Suspect” TV Series Cast Members: OK Tillett Wright. In: MTV.com . 2020, accessed on March 31, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Official website: About iO. 2020, accessed on March 31, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942446/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t14
  4. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/news/2737680/mtv-suspect-io-tillett-wright/
  5. ↑ http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2014/march/18/whos-who-in-these-nan-goldin-photos/
  6. ↑ a b Zio Baritaux: io tillett wright has identified as a boy, a girl, and a man, and traces his gender-fluid journey in a new memoir. In: id.vice.com . September 28, 2016 (English); Quote: "iO came out as transgender after Darling Days went to print (which is why, on the back of the book, female pronouns are still used to describe the author, but now iO prefers male pronouns)".
  7. ↑ Sex and the City: The Ick Factor in the Internet Movie Database , accessed March 31, 2020.
  8. ↑ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/author/io-tillett-wright/
  9. ↑ http://www.selfevidentproject.com/ August 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ https://www.ted.com/talks/io_tillett_wright_fifty_shades_of_gay?language=de August 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062368201/darling-days#
  12. ↑ http://www.mtv.de/shows/2954-mtv-suspect
  13. ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062368201/darling-days
  14. ↑ http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/io_tillett_wright_14943.html?d_view=veroeffnahmungen
  15. ↑ iO Tillett Wright: He / She / It / ... Me. In: Huffpost.com . May 14, 2014 (English); Quote: "[…] rather than embrace the opposite presentation of gender, putting on the uniform and performing 'male', I want to learn to be whole in what I am: A female, who has many masculine characteristics, and many feminine characteristics , and that there is nothing wrong with that. "
  16. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/amber-heard-johnny-depp-io-tillet-wright-divorce-marriage-sunday-times-a7236931.html
  17. ↑ http://www.vip.de/cms/rosenkrieg-mit-johnny-depp-amber-heards-freundin-io-tillett-wright-kritisiert-taeter-opfer-umkehr-2932870.html
  18. ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062368201/darling-days#
personal data
SURNAME Wright, OK Tillett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, photographer, television presenter, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower East Side , Manhattan , New York City