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| | pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="ande_abou">{{Cite web |title=about |author= |work=andrea lawlor |date= |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://www.anderlawlor.com/about-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042903/https://www.anderlawlor.com/about-1|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> | | | pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="ande_abou">{{Cite web |title=about |author= |work=andrea lawlor |date= |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://www.anderlawlor.com/about-1}}</ref> |
| | gender=[[masculine]] but not a [[man]]<ref name="muth_ANDR">{{Cite web |title=ANDREA LAWLOR on Why Hart Doesn’t Have Two Mommies |last=Lawlor |first=Andrea |work=Mutha Magazine |date=25 March 2014 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= http://www.muthamagazine.com/2014/03/andrea-lawlor-on-why-hart-doesnt-have-two-mommies/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321042914/https://www.muthamagazine.com/2014/03/andrea-lawlor-on-why-hart-doesnt-have-two-mommies/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | | | gender=[[masculine]] but not a [[man]]<ref name="muth_ANDR">{{Cite web |title=ANDREA LAWLOR on Why Hart Doesn’t Have Two Mommies |last=Lawlor |first=Andrea |work=Mutha Magazine |date=25 March 2014 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= http://www.muthamagazine.com/2014/03/andrea-lawlor-on-why-hart-doesnt-have-two-mommies/}}</ref> |
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| '''Andrea Lawlor''' teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College and is known for writing the novel ''Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl'', which was a 2018 Lambda Literary finalist.<ref name="Orlando">{{Cite web |title=15 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Writers to Support |last=Orlando |first=Christina |work=BOOK RIOT |date=27 October 2018 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://bookriot.com/trans-non-binary-authors/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202080239/https://bookriot.com/trans-non-binary-authors/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> One journalist described the book as "the Great Queer American Novel".<ref name="Abraham">{{Cite web |title=Andrea Lawlor explores the wild possibilities of sexual-shapeshifting |last=Abraham |first=Amelia |work=Dazed |date=18 April 2019 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/44110/1/andrea-lawlor-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl-book-interview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204160540/https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/44110/1/andrea-lawlor-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl-book-interview |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | | '''Andrea Lawlor''' teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College and is known for writing the novel ''Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl'', which was a 2018 Lambda Literary finalist.<ref name="Orlando">{{Cite web |title=15 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Writers to Support |last=Orlando |first=Christina |work=BOOK RIOT |date=27 October 2018 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://bookriot.com/trans-non-binary-authors/}}</ref> |
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| In a 2014 article for Mutha Magazine, Lawlor wrote "I don't identify as a mother, a lesbian, or a woman at all, frankly. Yet I don't identify as a man either." They settled on the term [[Gender_neutral_language_in_English#Parent|Baba]] to describe their relationship to their child.<ref name="muth_ANDR" /> | | In a 2014 article for Mutha Magazine, Lawlor wrote "I don't identify as a mother, a lesbian, or a woman at all, frankly. Yet I don't identify as a man either." They settled on the term [[Gender_neutral_language_in_English#Parent|Baba]] to describe their relationship to their child.<ref name="muth_ANDR" /> |
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| In 2019, a representative from the NYC Trans Oral History Project interviewed Lawlor, who spoke about their experiences in '90s NYC queer activism, fabulist trans literature, and being a [[family|nonbinary parent]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://partner.archive-it.org/missing_url_record?getJS=true&type=count&collId=14173&checkBefore=20230719060548&cPage=http%3A%2F%2Foralhistory.nypl.org%2Finterviews%2Fandrea-lawlor-c98534×tamp=20200911235327|title=NYPL Community Oral History Project {{!}} NYC Trans Oral History Project {{!}} Andrea Lawlor|website=wayback.archive-it.org|access-date=2020-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719060552/https://partner.archive-it.org/missing_url_record?getJS=true&type=count&collId=14173&checkBefore=20230719060548&cPage=http%3A%2F%2Foralhistory.nypl.org%2Finterviews%2Fandrea-lawlor-c98534×tamp=20200911235327|archive-date=2023-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| Lawlor grew up in Naugatuck, Connecticut, then moved to New York for college. They dropped out for a while to be an [[activism|activist]], later finishing their college education in Iowa City.<ref name="Nolan">{{Cite web |title=Andrea Lawlor: 'TERFs? I don't think they're either radical or feminist' |last=Nolan |first=Megan |work=Huck Magazine |date=30 May 2019 |access-date=16 November 2020 |url= https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/books-art-and-culture/terfs-i-dont-think-theyre-either-radical-or-feminist/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329072806/https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/books-art-and-culture/terfs-i-dont-think-theyre-either-radical-or-feminist/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| {{quote|I love the word [[queer]], because what's useful about it is that it has the potential to be radically inclusive. I hope it signals an interest in, if not radical political thought, at least a destabilising. Destabilising binary ideas of [[gender]] and [[sex]]. I really struggled with this feeling of not being [[trans]] enough, I don't feel like any of the words really work. I like words that leave things a little unclear. The main thing for me is if you respect people self-determination, and if somebody says they're queer, or they're trans, they are, and it's not that big of a deal.<ref name="Nolan" />}}
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| {{quote|I remember when ''Stone Butch Blues'' came out the word "trans" wasn't used as much of a word as "[[butch]]". Butch meant what "[[transmasculine|trans masculine]]" means now. That doesn't scan now, because there are a lot of butch people who are [[transphobia|transphobic]] or trans exclusionary… I used to identify really clearly as butch for a long period, and it's changed because a lot of that territory has been claimed by people with whom I do not share values. And there came a point where "she/her" no longer meant what I needed it to mean or have comfortable space in for me and so I moved to using "them" and I'm grateful for the people who made that possibility.}}
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