Amita Kuttner: Difference between revisions

| date_birth=4 December, 1990<ref name="huff_Meet">{{Cite web |title=Meet Amita Kuttner, Green Party Leadership Race Contender |author= |work=HuffPost Canada |date=11 September 2020 |access-date=4 October 2020 |url= https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/amita-kuttner-green-party-leadership_ca_5f5bcde1c5b6b48508004982}}</ref>

| gender=[[nonbinary]], [[genderfluid]], and often [[agender]]<ref name="Identity">{{Cite web |title=Identity in Politics|author=Kuttner, Amita |work=amitakuttner.ca |date=2019 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://amitakuttner.ca/news/identity-in-politics/}}</ref>

'''Amita Kuttner, PhD''' is an astrophysicist who is in the race for leader of Canada's Green Party.<ref name="Parsons">{{Cite web |title=This astrophysicist could become the first non-binary person to lead a major political party in Canada |last=Parsons |first=Vic |work=PinkNews |date=10 March 2020 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/10/amita-kuttner-green-party-non-binary-astrophysicist-leadership-race-canada/ }}</ref> They came out as [[nonbinary]] and [[pansexual]] in August 2019<ref name="Hyslop">{{Cite web |title=Amita Kuttner on Being a Green, Non-Binary, and Pansexual Astrophysicist and Politician |last=Hyslop |first=Katie |work=The Tyee |date=26 August 2019 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/08/26/Amita-Kuttner-Green-Candidate/}}</ref>, saying in an interview that "I decided to come out because of feeling a kind of incongruity trying to just act like I'm just a woman all the time."<ref name="Gawley">{{Cite web |title='I was freaking out': Burnaby Green candidate comes out as non-binary |last=Gawley |first=Kelvin |work=Burnaby Now |date=7 August 2019 |access-date=19 May 2020 |url= https://www.burnabynow.com/news/i-was-freaking-out-burnaby-green-candidate-comes-out-as-non-binary-1.23908762}}</ref>

Their campaign platform includes issues such as decolonization, reform of political institutions, criminal justice reform, comprehensive healthcare, steps toward a more earth-friendly economy, and free college tuition.<ref>https://amitakuttner.ca/platform/</ref>