Julia Serano

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Julia Serano (2016)

Julia Serano (born in 1967 as Thomas L. Serano ) is an American writer, transgender activist, and biologist.

Life

Serano studied life sciences at Philadelphia University from 1985 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1995 she completed her PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry at Columbia University . She specialized in developmental biology and researched mRNA localization in the egg cells of Drosophila melanogaster . She worked for 17 years, until 2012, as a researcher at the University of California , initially as a postdoc.

Even in her youth, Serano felt uncomfortable with her male gender identity. She began to secretly wear women's clothes. For the first time in 1994 in Kansas , she joined a support group for transvestites in. When she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area a short time later , she began to identify as transgender. In 2001 she began gender reassignment; since then she sees herself as a trans woman .

In 2002 she published her first book on transgender issues, Either / Or . Her second book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity , which combines her personal history with a treatise on transgender theory from a feminist perspective, is her best known. Since ending her job as a biologist, Serano has lived off her income as a writer, artist and speaker on transgender topics. Her contributions have appeared in The Guardian and Time , among others , but also in feminist and queer magazines such as Bitch and Ms. Magazine .

Works

  • Either / Or. Switch Hitter Press 2002.
  • Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity . Seal Press 2007.
  • Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive . Seal Press 2013.
  • Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism. Switch Hitter Press 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nadia Abushanab Higgins: Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word . Twenty-First Century Books, 2016, pp. 99 .
  2. ↑ a b Julia’s Biology and Science page. In: Julia Serano. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ My Story. In: Switchhitter. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ About Julia Serano. In: Julia Serano. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Serano, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Serano, Thomas L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, transgender activist, and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967