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| place_birth=Montreal, Quebec, Canada<ref name="lezwatch">{{Cite web |title=Jo Vannicola Actor Bio |author= |work=LezWatch.TV |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://lezwatchtv.com/actor/jo-vannicola/ | | place_birth=Montreal, Quebec, Canada<ref name="lezwatch">{{Cite web |title=Jo Vannicola Actor Bio |author= |work=LezWatch.TV |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://lezwatchtv.com/actor/jo-vannicola/}}</ref> | ||
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| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref>{{cite tweet|user=joannevannicola|number=1172915600655560709|title=I’ll soon be updating my pronouns to They/them on my websites. It’s going to take some time but I want to be part of the change, to reflect the language that fits gender, those of us who are nonbinary & trans. #lgbtq #nonbinary #trans #gender #language|date=14 September 2019}}</ref> | | pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref>{{cite tweet|user=joannevannicola|number=1172915600655560709|title=I’ll soon be updating my pronouns to They/them on my websites. It’s going to take some time but I want to be part of the change, to reflect the language that fits gender, those of us who are nonbinary & trans. #lgbtq #nonbinary #trans #gender #language|date=14 September 2019}}</ref> | ||
| gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="website">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola Official Website |author= |work= |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.joannevannicola.com/ | | gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="website">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola Official Website |author= |work= |date= |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.joannevannicola.com/}}</ref> | ||
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In 2004, they founded the organization [https://web.archive.org/web/20200810013653/https://www.youthoutloud.ca/ Youth Out Loud] to raise awareness of child sexual abuse.<ref name="lezwatch" /> | In 2004, they founded the organization [https://web.archive.org/web/20200810013653/https://www.youthoutloud.ca/ Youth Out Loud] to raise awareness of child sexual abuse.<ref name="lezwatch" /> | ||
Vannicola has been out as a [[lesbian]] for many years, and [[coming out|came out]] as nonbinary in 2018.<ref name="2018blog">{{Cite web |title=Nonbinary, Trans, & Queer. The Film Biz. |author=Vannicola, Joanne |work=Joanne Vannicola Blog |date=14 November 2018 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://joannevannicola.blog/2018/11/14/nonbinary-trans-queer-the-film-biz/ | Vannicola has been out as a [[lesbian]] for many years, and [[coming out|came out]] as nonbinary in 2018.<ref name="2018blog">{{Cite web |title=Nonbinary, Trans, & Queer. The Film Biz. |author=Vannicola, Joanne |work=Joanne Vannicola Blog |date=14 November 2018 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://joannevannicola.blog/2018/11/14/nonbinary-trans-queer-the-film-biz/}}</ref> As of 2020, they describe themself as "lesbian and or [[butch]] and or nonbinary".<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdvenfAUfh/ Instagram post], 15 June 2020</ref> | ||
They wrote about their life's struggles in their 2019 memoir ''All We Knew But Couldn't Say''<ref name="Wilner">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola wants to push Canadian film beyond gender binaries |last=Wilner |first=Norman |work=NOW Magazine |date=18 June 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://nowtoronto.com/culture/books/joanne-vannicola-all-we-knew-but-couldnt-say/ | They wrote about their life's struggles in their 2019 memoir ''All We Knew But Couldn't Say''<ref name="Wilner">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola wants to push Canadian film beyond gender binaries |last=Wilner |first=Norman |work=NOW Magazine |date=18 June 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://nowtoronto.com/culture/books/joanne-vannicola-all-we-knew-but-couldnt-say/}}</ref>, which was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2020.<ref name="kobo_Sixt">{{Cite web |title=Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced |author= |work=Kobo News |date=6 May 2020 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.kobo.com/news/sixth-annual-rakuten-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-shortlist-announced }}</ref> | ||
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"It was so hard for me my entire life to explain what that was. People would say 'Well just because you're a [[lesbian]] doesn't mean that you can't be [[feminine]]' [...] I didn't have the language growing up, and if I'd had the word nonbinary, I would have been able to say 'But I'm nonbinary.'"<ref name="WhatSheSaid">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola talks memoir 'All We Knew But Couldn’t Say' |author=WhatSheSaid Talk |work=YouTube |date=19 August 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzgiGCSI0M | "It was so hard for me my entire life to explain what that was. People would say 'Well just because you're a [[lesbian]] doesn't mean that you can't be [[feminine]]' [...] I didn't have the language growing up, and if I'd had the word nonbinary, I would have been able to say 'But I'm nonbinary.'"<ref name="WhatSheSaid">{{Cite web |title=Joanne Vannicola talks memoir 'All We Knew But Couldn’t Say' |author=WhatSheSaid Talk |work=YouTube |date=19 August 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzgiGCSI0M}}</ref> | ||
"I must write about [[LGBTQ]] people and I must never stop being authentically me. Hiding, [[passing]], even acting or pretending to be anything other than queer and non-binary, is a road I never want to walk. Be brave lgbtq people. We are reflecting who we are for the next generation who need us to step up and take space, be visible."<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B6UYCzygS-k/ Instagram post], 20 December 2019</ref> | "I must write about [[LGBTQ]] people and I must never stop being authentically me. Hiding, [[passing]], even acting or pretending to be anything other than queer and non-binary, is a road I never want to walk. Be brave lgbtq people. We are reflecting who we are for the next generation who need us to step up and take space, be visible."<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B6UYCzygS-k/ Instagram post], 20 December 2019</ref> | ||