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Ivan E. Coyote (born August 11, 1969 [age {{#expr: {{#time: Y }}-1969}}]) is a Canadian writer who has made significant contributions to the representation of queerness in Canadian literature. They have won the ReLit Award for Best Fiction (2007), and the Stonewall Honor Book Award (2017). | Ivan E. Coyote (born August 11, 1969 [age {{#expr: {{#time: Y }}-1969}}]) is a Canadian writer who has made significant contributions to the representation of queerness in Canadian literature. They have won the ReLit Award for Best Fiction (2007), and the Stonewall Honor Book Award (2017). | ||
* '''Pronouns:''' [[singular they|they/them]]<ref | * '''Pronouns:''' [[singular they|they/them]]<ref name="Black">{{Cite web |title=Ivan Coyote: 'I always knew I was not the same as other little girls' |last=Black |first=Eleanor |work=Stuff |date=17 August 2016 |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/83178100/ivan-coyote-i-always-knew-i-was-not-the-same-as-other-little-girls }}</ref> | ||
* '''Gender:''' Ivan describes themself as "a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the [[gender binary]]"<ref>[https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms], Ivan Coyote, November 2015</ref> and has said "I don't want to be a man but don’t feel like a woman either, and that's a difficult place to be in, yet that is my authentic self and there is nothing harder than spending an entire lifetime trying to cover up your authentic self."<ref name="etal_Ivan">{{Cite web |title=Ivan E. Coyote {{!}} Et Alors? Magazine |last=Pierets |first=JF. |work=etalorsmagazine.com |date= |access-date=26 March 2020 |url= https://etalorsmagazine.com/ivan-e-coyote/ }}</ref> They also identify as [[butch]]: "Nobody taught me how to be butch; I didn't even hear the word until I was twenty years old. I first became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was".<ref>https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/</ref> | * '''Gender:''' Ivan describes themself as "a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the [[gender binary]]"<ref>[https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms], Ivan Coyote, November 2015</ref> and has said "I don't want to be a man but don’t feel like a woman either, and that's a difficult place to be in, yet that is my authentic self and there is nothing harder than spending an entire lifetime trying to cover up your authentic self."<ref name="etal_Ivan">{{Cite web |title=Ivan E. Coyote {{!}} Et Alors? Magazine |last=Pierets |first=JF. |work=etalorsmagazine.com |date= |access-date=26 March 2020 |url= https://etalorsmagazine.com/ivan-e-coyote/ }}</ref> They also identify as [[butch]]: "Nobody taught me how to be butch; I didn't even hear the word until I was twenty years old. I first became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was".<ref>https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/</ref> | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Coyote Wikipedia entry] [http://www.ivanecoyote.com/ Their Website] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Coyote Wikipedia entry] [http://www.ivanecoyote.com/ Their Website] | ||
They are married to Zena Sharman, a Canadian health researcher and writer.<ref name="Black" /> | |||
==Books== | ==Books== | ||
