Ivan E. Coyote: Difference between revisions

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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230325200731/http://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Archived] on 17 July 2023</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 |last=Pierets |first=JF. |work=Et Alors? Magazinedate= |access-date=26 March 2020 |url= https://etalorsmagazine.com/ivan-e-coyote/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501125803/https://etalorsmagazine.com/ivan-e-coyote/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> They also identify as [[butch]]<ref name="casey">{{Cite web |title=Gender Landmines: Trans Masculinities, Femininities, and Binaries: A Review of Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon's Gender Failure |author= |work=Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian |date=7 July 2014 |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2014/07/07/gender-landmines-trans-masculinities-feminities-and-binaries-a-review-of-ivan-coyote-and-rae-spoons-gender-failure/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074503/https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2014/07/07/gender-landmines-trans-masculinities-feminities-and-binaries-a-review-of-ivan-coyote-and-rae-spoons-gender-failure/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>: "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/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221205154452/https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

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