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* [[Kate Bornstein|Nonbinary Wiki entry]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bornstein Wikipedia entry] / [http://katebornstein.typepad.com/ Kate's Blog]

==Claude Cahun==

[[File:Claude Cahun.jpg|thumb|Claude Cahun.]]

[[Claude Cahun]] was a surrealist artist whose works encompassed writing, photography, and theatre. Cahun is most remembered for highly staged self-portraits and tableaux. Cahun and their life partner Marcel Moore were both Jewish, both had adopted these gender-neutral names, and they both often collaborated together in their art. In WWII, the couple engaged in resistance work and activism against the Nazis during the German occupation of France. The couple dressed up and attended many German military events in Jersey, strategically placing anti-Nazi fliers in soldier's pockets, on their chairs, and in cigarette boxes for soldiers to find. In 1944, Cahun and Moore were arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out as the island was liberated from German occupation in 1945.<ref name=":1" />{{Cite journal|last=Andersen|first=Corinne|date=2005|title=Que me veux-tu?/ What do you want of me?: Claude Cahun's Autoportraits and the Process of Gender Identification|url=|journal=Women in French Studies|volume=13|pages=37–50|via=Project MUSE}}</ref>

* '''Born:''' 1894, died 1954 (aged 60)

* '''Nationality:''' France

* '''Pronouns:''' ''source needed''

* '''Gender:''' [[neutral]]. In their autobiography, ''Disavowals'', they explained, “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=Disavowals : or cancelled confessions|first=Claude|last=Cahun|date=2008|publisher=The MIT Press|isbn=9780262533034|oclc=922878515}}</ref>

* '''Profession:''' surrealist artist

==Jonathan Rachel Clynch==