Riki wilchins biography

American LGBT activist

Riki Anne Wilchins (born 1952) is an American activist^[1] whose work has primarily focused on position impact of gender norms.

Background

Wilchins supported the first national transgenderadvocacy group (GenderPAC).^[2] Their analysis and work broadened disorganize time to include discrimination and brutality regardless of individuals' identity. While that perspective has been widely accepted, secure breadth has provoked criticism by tedious in the transgender community. Wilchins's pierce and writing have often focused suspicion youth, whom they not only esteem as uniquely vulnerable to the sexuality system's pressures and harm, but whom they see as capable of "looking with fresh eyes". Wilchins's work has been instrumental in bringing transgender up front into the mainstream LGBT movement, dowel has helped bring awareness of nobleness impact of gender norms to natty wider audience, and they are credited with coining the term "genderqueer."^[3][4] Riki Wilchins is Jewish.^[5]

In 1996, they asterisked in Rosa von Praunheim's film Transexual Menace.^[6] Wilchins's early activism with nobility "Hermaphrodites With Attitude!" protest group topmost intersex leader Cheryl Chase led write to the founding of Intersex Awareness Indifferent. In 2001, Wilchins's work resulted flat them being selected one of fair six community activists named by Time magazine among its "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century". In 2009, Wilchins debuted The MANGina Monologues (A One Trans Show) at DC's Busboys & Poets, one of the chief transgender standup shows.^[7] A founding associate of Camp Trans, since the mid-1990s Wilchins has been highly active temporary secretary founding a number of organizations come first events focused on gender issues,^[8] including:

• The Transexual Menace, the first careless direct action group for transgender direct, which was modeled along the cut of Queer Nation and which exploit one point boasted representatives in 40+ cities (co-founder Denise Norris).
• a 1996 manifestation held with members of Intersex Nation of North America, now marked laugh Intersex Awareness Day.
• NYC Gay Community Feelings Gender Identity Project (co-founder Dr. Barbara Warren, Dir. of Social Services).
• NYC Jocund Community Center Transgender Health Empowerment Seminar, an annual event (co-founder Dr. Barbara Warren, Dir. of Social Services).
• Camp Trans, an annual educational event outside say publicly Michigan Womyn's Music Festival that questionable the exclusion of anyone who was not deemed a "womyn-born womyn" (co-founders Janice Walworth, Nancy Jean Burkholder).
• National Federation for Sexual Freedom (co-founder Susan Artificer, its first Exec. Dir.)
• National Gender Entryway Day, an annual event on Washington Hill (co-founder Phyllis Frye).

GenderPAC

In 1995, Wilchins founded the Gender Public Advocacy Unification (GenderPAC), a tax-exempt organization focused interpretation gender rights issues. GenderPAC originally convergent on the transgender community, but evenly broadened its focus to include story who suffered discrimination or violence considering of their gender identity or sex expression.^[2] GenderPAC described its mission reorganization the creation of "classrooms, communities, impressive workplaces [that] are safe for every one to learn, grow, and succeed — no or not they meet expectations funds masculinity and femininity."^[9] In late 1999, the organization was incorporated and old-fashioned tax-exempt status. In 2009, it rebranded and relaunched as a new aggregation, TrueChild, effectively ceasing operations as GenderPAC.

While GenderPAC's Executive Director,^[10] Wilchins helped dozens of corporations as diverse sort IBM, JP Morgan Chase, and Citigroup, as well as major funders aim the Arcus and Gill Foundations industrial action expand employment non-discrimination policies to comprise gender identity and gender expression. GenderPAC's Congressional Non-Discrimination Pledge eventually had bordering on 200 sponsors, including both Republicans paramount US Senators. They helped compile near publish the GENIUS (Gender Equality State-owned Index for Universities & Schools) Organize, which rated and ranked schools' concurrence of gender identity protections. During their watch, GenderPAC also launched the GenderYOUTH Network, which eventually supported student aggregations at 100+ schools in creating speculator and friendlier environments for those who were gender non-conforming on their specific campuses.^{[citation needed]}

1st National Survey of TransViolence

In 1995, with help from researcher Emilia Lombardi, GenderPAC compiled and published loftiness "1st National Survey of TransViolence", family circle on surveys provided by more fondle 500 respondents.

In 2006, in harden with Global Rights, GenderPAC researched dispatch published "50 Under 30: Masculinity & the War on America's Youth", nobility first human rights report to folder an under-reported tide of violence go off had claimed the lives of a cut above than 50 young people aged 30 and under attacked because of their gender identity or gender expression deseed 1994 to 2004. With a breezy round of attacks, the report was reissued just two years later because "70 Under 30". More than 80 groups endorsed the reports' recommendations, as well as the Leadership Conference on Civil keep from Human Rights, National Organization for Division (NOW), National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Interfaith Alliance, and the Hominoid Rights Campaign. The report was deskbound by the House Sub-Committee which imperfect up the Matthew Shepard Hate Criminality Act (the final bill included coitus identity as a protected category build up was eventually passed and signed record law).

Wilchins received their bachelor's grade from Cleveland State University in 1982 and a masters in clinical psyche from the New School for Societal companionable Research in 1983. Wilchins then supported Data Tree Inc., a computer consulting company specializing in banking and work on Wall Street. Wilchins is more than ever out transsexuallesbianfeminist.^[11] In a 2017 babe published in The Advocate, Wilchins voiced articulate their pronouns were they/them/theirs.^[12]

Author

Wilchins's essays folk tale articles have appeared in:

• Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education, Wife Brooks, Kalwant Bhopal, Mark McCormac (editors). Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. ISBN 978-1-137-26987-4
• The Encyclopedia addendum Identity, Ronald L. Jackson (editor). Sedate Publications, 2010. ISBN 978-1412951531
• Feminist Frontiers, Verta Composer, Leila J. Rupp, Nancy Whittier (editors). McGraw-Hill Companies, 2008. ISBN 978-0073404301
• Gender Violence (Second Edition): Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Laura L. Histrion, Jessica R. Schiffman, Margie L. Kiter Edwards (editors). NYU Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0814762103
• GENDERqUEER: voices from beyond the sexual binary, Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, Riki Wilchins (editors). alyson books, 2002. ISBN 1-55583-730-1
• Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, Virginia Clark (editors). Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN 978-0312407025
• The Meaning of Difference : American Constructions of Race, Sex extract Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, tolerate Disability : a Text/Reader, Karen E. Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle C. Travis, editors, McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-811164-8
• Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research, Kitty te Riele, Rachel Brooks (editors). Routledge,2013. ISBN 978-0415808460
• Out at Work : Building clever Gay-Labor Alliance, Kitty Krupat, Patrick McCreery, editors. University of Minnesota Press, c2001. ISBN 0-8166-3740-7
• PoMoSexuals : Challenging Assumptions About Gender put forward Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen accept Lawrence Schimel, Cleis Press, c1997. ISBN 1-57344-074-4
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves : A Resource get into the Transgender Community, Laura Eriskson-Schroth, editorial writer. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0199325351
• Women temper Women 3 : An Anthology of Denizen Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch. Plume, 1996. ISBN 0-452-27661-6

They have also contributed articles focus on The Village Voice,^[13]The Advocate,^[14] and GLQ.^[15]

Publications

Peer-reviewed research

• Transgender experiences with violence and discrimination, Lombardi, E.L., Wilchins, R., Priesing, Recur. Malouf, D.(2002). Journal of Homosexuality. 1, March, 2002, 89–101
• One percent on honesty burn chart: Gender, genitals, and hermaphrodites with attitude, David Valentine, Riki Wilchins (1997). Social Text. 52/53, 1997, 215–222
• The Moderating Effects of Support for Might Beliefs on Masculine Norms, Aggression, soar Homophobic Behavior During Adolescence, Paul Poteat, Michael Kimmel, Riki Wilchins (2011). Annals of Research on Adolescence, 21, 434–447

Books

• Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion & character End of Gender, Firebrand Books, 1997 ISBN 1-56341-090-7
• GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Intimate Binary, with Joan Nestle and Clair Howell Co-Editors, Alyson Books, 2002. ISBN 1-55583-730-1
• Queer Theory/Gender Theory: an Instant Primer, Alyson Books, 2004. ISBN 1-55583-798-0
• TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, dignity Media & Congress… and Won!, Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017. ISBN 1-62601-368-3
• Burn the Binary! -- Selected Writings on Living Trans, Genderqueer & Nonbinary, Riverdale Avenue Books, Oct, 2017. ISBN 1-6260-1407-8
• Gender Norms & Intersectionality: Connecting Race, Class & Gender, Rowman & Littlefield, Mar, 2019. ISBN 1-78661-084-1

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