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== Notable neuter people == | == Notable neuter people == | ||
[[File:Claude Cahun.jpg|thumb|[[Claude Cahun]], a neuter artist and anti-fascist.]] | |||
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* [[Claude Cahun]] (1894 - 1954) was a surrealist artist and a resistance worker against the Nazi occupation of France in WWII. In Cahun's autobiography, ''Disavowals'', they explained, “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”<ref>Cahun, C., Malherbe, S. (2008). Disavowals: Or, Cancelled Confessions. United States: MIT Press.</ref> | * [[Claude Cahun]] (1894 - 1954) was a surrealist artist and a resistance worker against the Nazi occupation of France in WWII. In Cahun's autobiography, ''Disavowals'', they explained, “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”<ref>Cahun, C., Malherbe, S. (2008). Disavowals: Or, Cancelled Confessions. United States: MIT Press.</ref> | ||
* Autistic activist and [[intersex]] person [[Jim Sinclair]] has said they are "proudly neuter, both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref> | * Autistic activist and [[intersex]] person [[Jim Sinclair]] (1940 - ) has said they are "proudly neuter, both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref> In 1993 Sinclair wrote the essay, "Don't Mourn for Us", articulating an anti-cure perspective on autism.<ref name=DontMourn>{{cite web|url=http://www.autreat.com/dont_mourn.html|title=Don't mourn for us|publisher=Autreat|author=Sinclair, Jim|year=1993 |accessdate=2014-08-11}}</ref> The essay has been thought of as a touchstone for the fledgling autism-rights movement, and has been mentioned in ''The New York Times''<ref name="Harmon">{{cite web|last=Harmon|first=Amy|title=How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading|date=2004-12-20|work=The New York Times | ||
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html|accessdate=2007-11-07}}</ref> and ''New York Magazine''.<ref name=Solomon>{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Andrew|title=The Autism Rights Movement|date=2008-05-25|work=New York Magazine |url=https://www.nymag.com/news/features/47225/ |accessdate=2008-06-28}}</ref> | |||
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== Neuter characters in fiction == | == Neuter characters in fiction == | ||