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| | place_birth=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | | | place_birth=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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| | pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="Wichtel">{{Cite web |title=How Eileen Myles won a battle for personal pronoun plurality |last=Wichtel |first=By Diana |work=Noted |date=30 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-profiles/eileen-myles-won-their-battle-for-personal-pronoun-plurality|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920010927/https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-profiles/eileen-myles-won-their-battle-for-personal-pronoun-plurality |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | | | pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="Wichtel">{{Cite web |title=How Eileen Myles won a battle for personal pronoun plurality |last=Wichtel |first=By Diana |work=Noted |date=30 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-profiles/eileen-myles-won-their-battle-for-personal-pronoun-plurality}}</ref> |
| | gender=*"I'm the gender of Eileen."<ref name="Wichtel" /><ref name="Benjamin">{{Cite web |title=Hold a Feeling: An Interview With Eileen Myles |last=Benjamin |first=Tova |work=Rookie |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/eileen-myles/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128030005/https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/eileen-myles/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | | | gender=*"I'm the gender of Eileen."<ref name="Wichtel" /><ref name="Benjamin">{{Cite web |title=Hold a Feeling: An Interview With Eileen Myles |last=Benjamin |first=Tova |work=Rookie |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/eileen-myles/}}</ref> |
| * [[genderqueer]] [[dyke]]<ref name="gqd">{{cite tweet|title=@DeJesusSaves @rugamarspr plus as a gender queer dyke I am trans|date=February 24, 2016|user=EileenMyles|number=702569073884811264}}</ref> | | * [[genderqueer]] dyke<ref>{{cite tweet|title=@DeJesusSaves @rugamarspr plus as a gender queer dyke I am trans|date=February 24, 2016|user=EileenMyles|number=702569073884811264}}</ref> |
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| '''Eileen Myles''' is a well-known lesbian poet and writer. Myles ran for president of the USA in 1991-92. Zoe Leonard's 1992 poem, "I want a president", which begins with the line: "I want a dyke for president", was written to celebrate Myles's presidential run.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/16/zoe-leonard-archivist-of-feeling/|title=Zoe Leonard: Archivist of Feeling|last=Traps|first=Yevgeniya|date=March 16, 2018|website=The Paris Review|access-date=November 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409140804/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/16/zoe-leonard-archivist-of-feeling/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> | | '''Eileen Myles''' is a well-known lesbian poet and writer. Myles ran for president of the USA in 1991 and 1992. |
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| Myles uses the labels "genderqueer" and "trans"<ref name="gqd" /> but is not comfortable with the label "nonbinary".<ref name="Meinen">{{Cite web |title=I am Legion: An Interview with Eileen Myles |last=Meinen |first=Abigail |work=Sampsonia Way |date=22 June 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2018/06/22/i-am-legion-an-interview-with-eileen-myles/ |quote=You know, I wouldn't say I'm non-binary. Somehow it has a technical air, so somehow I don't feel comfortable with that or claim that. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407160412/https://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2018/06/22/i-am-legion-an-interview-with-eileen-myles/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| They have been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.<ref name="poetryfoundation">{{Cite web |title=Eileen Myles |work=Poetry Foundation |date= |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eileen-myles|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619105920/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eileen-myles |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| {{quote|I mean, I feel like I am very trans-identified. To some extent I felt I did, in fact, identify as a man in a woman's body. I’m starting to think that trans feelings are really at the root of homosexuality.<ref name="Russell">{{Cite web |title=Presidential thoughts: Eileen Myles on gender, sexuality and the bathroom wars |last=Russell |first=Stephen A. |work=Topics |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/pride/fast-lane/article/2018/05/02/presidential-thoughts-eileen-myles-gender-sexuality-and-bathroom-wars|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920214220/https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/pride/fast-lane/article/2018/05/02/presidential-thoughts-eileen-myles-gender-sexuality-and-bathroom-wars |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}} | | {{quote|I mean, I feel like I am very trans-identified. To some extent I felt I did, in fact, identify as a man in a woman’s body. I’m starting to think that trans feelings are really at the root of homosexuality.<ref name="Russell">{{Cite web |title=Presidential thoughts: Eileen Myles on gender, sexuality and the bathroom wars |last=Russell |first=Stephen A. |work=Topics |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/pride/fast-lane/article/2018/05/02/presidential-thoughts-eileen-myles-gender-sexuality-and-bathroom-wars}}</ref>}} |
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| {{quote|I started to think about ''they'', how it contains multitudes, and my sense of myself. I feel like a gender knot or something. I feel male, and I feel female. I feel [[queer]]. I feel [[trans]]. I feel I'm a [[dyke]], I'm a [[lesbian]]. I feel like a fag sometimes. It's very mobile, and they really seems to hold that. And I also really love that I'm in my sixties, and of course certain people [[transition]] at all points in their life, but I don’t know anybody my age who's changed their pronouns. I feel really happy that I can claim that, that I can do that. It feels like a mark I'm delighted to hold, and say ''Fuck you, if you don’t like it.''<ref name="Meinen" />}}
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