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'''Cyrus Grace Dunham''' (born January 28, 1992) is an American writer and activist. Dunham is nonbinary and has used "he", "she", and "they" pronouns,<ref name="konb_Grac">{{Cite web |title=Grace Dunham Lifts The Lid On Being Non-Binary In A Privileged World |work=Konbini - All Pop Everything! |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/grace-dunham-gender-project}}</ref> preferring "they" in professional contexts.<ref name="Burt">{{Cite web |title=Ways of Being: Three new books explore the variety of transgender experiences. |last=Burt |first=Stephanie |work=The Atlantic |date=November 2019 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/transgender-narratives/598354/}}</ref> In 2019 they published the memoir ''A Year Without a Name'' which covers their gender exploration, substance abuse, and family issues including their famous older sister Lena Dunham. | |||
'''Cyrus Grace Dunham''' (born January 28, 1992) is an American writer and activist. Dunham is nonbinary and has used "he", "she", and "they" pronouns,<ref name="konb_Grac">{{Cite web |title=Grace Dunham Lifts The Lid On Being Non-Binary In A Privileged World |work=Konbini - All Pop Everything! |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/grace-dunham-gender-project | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
"I guess, in a deep soul way, I definitely identify as non-binary, but I also know that I've had a [[transmasculine]] experience. And increasingly when I meet people, they experience me as a man. | "I guess, in a deep soul way, I definitely identify as non-binary, but I also know that I've had a [[transmasculine]] experience. And increasingly when I meet people, they experience me as a man. | ||
I think I'm transmasculine and non-binary and also maybe forever [[lesbian]]."<ref name="advo_Writ">{{Cite web |title=Writer Cyrus Grace Dunham Shows How Messy Gender Can Be |last=Masters |first=Jeffrey |work=advocate.com |date=15 October 2019 |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/writer-cyrus-grace-dunham-shows-how-messy-gender-can-be | I think I'm transmasculine and non-binary and also maybe forever [[lesbian]]."<ref name="advo_Writ">{{Cite web |title=Writer Cyrus Grace Dunham Shows How Messy Gender Can Be |last=Masters |first=Jeffrey |work=advocate.com |date=15 October 2019 |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/writer-cyrus-grace-dunham-shows-how-messy-gender-can-be}}</ref> | ||
"My performance of 'girlhood' left me dissociated from myself and the world around me. The polite, articulate young woman everyone else encountered felt almost like a hologram; I had the sense I was hiding something monstrous, though I had no idea how to articulate what that monstrousness was. [...] My own life has often felt like a video game or a movie to me, my consciousness projected into an awkward, gangly, white 'female' avatar. One thing I know is that writing about myself as a character helped a more authentic me wrest away some of that person’s power."<ref name="glamour">{{Cite web |title=Cyrus Grace Dunham: ‘Pretending to Be a Girl for Much of My Life Made Hiding the Norm, Not the Exception’ |last=Dunham |first=Cyrus Grace |work=Glamour |date=6 November 2019 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://www.glamour.com/story/cyrus-grace-dunham-essay | "My performance of 'girlhood' left me dissociated from myself and the world around me. The polite, articulate young woman everyone else encountered felt almost like a hologram; I had the sense I was hiding something monstrous, though I had no idea how to articulate what that monstrousness was. [...] My own life has often felt like a video game or a movie to me, my consciousness projected into an awkward, gangly, white 'female' avatar. One thing I know is that writing about myself as a character helped a more authentic me wrest away some of that person’s power."<ref name="glamour">{{Cite web |title=Cyrus Grace Dunham: ‘Pretending to Be a Girl for Much of My Life Made Hiding the Norm, Not the Exception’ |last=Dunham |first=Cyrus Grace |work=Glamour |date=6 November 2019 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://www.glamour.com/story/cyrus-grace-dunham-essay}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Nonbinary people]] | |||
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