Joanne Vannicola

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| date_birth=1968
| place_birth=Montreal, Quebec, Canada<ref name="lezwatch">{{Cite web |title=Jo Vannicola Actor Bio |author= |work=LezWatch.TV |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://lezwatchtv.com/actor/jo-vannicola/}}</ref>
| nationality=Canadian
| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref>{{cite tweet|user=joannevannicola|number=1172915600655560709|title=I’ll soon be updating my pronouns to They/them on my websites. It’s going to take some time but I want to be part of the change, to reflect the language that fits gender, those of us who are nonbinary & trans. #lgbtq #nonbinary #trans #gender #language|date=14 September 2019}}</ref>
| gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="website">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola Official Website |author= |work= |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.joannevannicola.com/}}</ref>
| occupation=actor, activist, author
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'''Joanne "Jo" Vannicola''' is a Canadian actor. Some of her roles include Dr. Naadiah in ''Being Erica'', Dr. Mia Stone in ''PSI Factor'', Jerri in ''Love and Human Remains'', Sam in ''Stonewall'', Renee in ''Slasher: Guilty Party'', and Amber Ciotti in ''Slasher: Solstice'', as well as voice roles in ''Crash Canyon'' and ''My Dad the Rock Star''.

In 2004, she founded the organization [https://www.youthoutloud.ca/ Youth Out Loud] to raise awareness of child sexual abuse.<ref name="lezwatch" />

Vannicola has been out as a [[lesbian]] for many years, and [[coming out|came out]] as nonbinary in 2018.<ref name="2018blog">{{Cite web |title=Nonbinary, Trans, & Queer. The Film Biz. |author=Vannicola, Joanne |work=Joanne Vannicola Blog |date=14 November 2018 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://joannevannicola.blog/2018/11/14/nonbinary-trans-queer-the-film-biz/}}</ref> As of 2020, she describes herself as "lesbian and or [[butch]] and or nonbinary".<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdvenfAUfh/ Instagram post], 15 June 2020</ref>

She wrote about her life's struggles in her 2019 memoir ''All We Knew But Couldn't Say''<ref name="Wilner">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola wants to push Canadian film beyond gender binaries |last=Wilner |first=Norman |work=NOW Magazine |date=18 June 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://nowtoronto.com/culture/books/joanne-vannicola-all-we-knew-but-couldnt-say/}}</ref>, which was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2020.<ref name="kobo_Sixt">{{Cite web |title=Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced |author= |work=Kobo News |date=6 May 2020 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.kobo.com/news/sixth-annual-rakuten-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-shortlist-announced }}</ref>

==Quotes==
"It was so hard for me my entire life to explain what that was. People would say 'Well just because you're a [[lesbian]] doesn't mean that you can't be [[feminine]]' [...] I didn't have the language growing up, and if I'd had the word nonbinary, I would have been able to say 'But I'm nonbinary.'"<ref name="WhatSheSaid">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola talks memoir 'All We Knew But Couldn’t Say' |author=WhatSheSaid Talk |work=YouTube |date=19 August 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzgiGCSI0M}}</ref>

"I must write about [[LGBTQ]] people and I must never stop being authentically me. Hiding, [[passing]], even acting or pretending to be anything other than queer and non-binary, is a road I never want to walk. Be brave lgbtq people. We are reflecting who we are for the next generation who need us to step up and take space, be visible."<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B6UYCzygS-k/ Instagram post], 20 December 2019</ref>

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