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'''Rae Spoon''' is a Canadian musician and writer who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. | '''Rae Spoon''' is a Canadian musician and writer who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. | ||
After a decade of living as a trans man,<ref>{{cite web|title=He said/she said?|last=Alberta|first=Linda|work= SEE Magazine|date=2003-05-08|archive-date=2007-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022043241/http://seemagazine.com/Issues/2003/0508/mus1.htm|url=http://seemagazine.com/Issues/2003/0508/mus1.htm}}</ref> Spoon noted a preference for the pronoun "they" in 2012 during an interview with cartoonist Elisha Lim, a fellow advocate for the gender-neutral pronoun.<ref name="NMP">{{cite web|title=Elisha Lim and Rae Spoon: Talking Shop|work=No More Potlucks|date=January 2012|url=http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/elisha-lim-and-rae-spoon-talking-shop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826104057/http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/elisha-lim-and-rae-spoon-talking-shop/|archive-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> They explained to Now Magazine, "after years of fighting to be called 'he,' the idea of coming out again made me tired. But now I feel kind of rejuvenated, ready to fight on some more. I think the 'they' pronoun is a pretty cool thing. It's letting a lot of people not have to identify as a man or a woman. Whatever it means to them."<ref name="Gillis">{{Cite web |title=Rae Spoon: Powerful album reignites the pronoun debate |last=Gillis |first=Carla |work=NOW Magazine |date=26 January 2012 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://nowtoronto.com/music/rae-spoon/ | After a decade of living as a trans man,<ref>{{cite web|title=He said/she said?|last=Alberta|first=Linda|work= SEE Magazine|date=2003-05-08|archive-date=2007-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022043241/http://seemagazine.com/Issues/2003/0508/mus1.htm|url=http://seemagazine.com/Issues/2003/0508/mus1.htm}}</ref> Spoon noted a preference for the pronoun "they" in 2012 during an interview with cartoonist Elisha Lim, a fellow advocate for the gender-neutral pronoun.<ref name="NMP">{{cite web|title=Elisha Lim and Rae Spoon: Talking Shop|work=No More Potlucks|date=January 2012|url=http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/elisha-lim-and-rae-spoon-talking-shop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826104057/http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/elisha-lim-and-rae-spoon-talking-shop/|archive-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> They explained to Now Magazine, "after years of fighting to be called 'he,' the idea of coming out again made me tired. But now I feel kind of rejuvenated, ready to fight on some more. I think the 'they' pronoun is a pretty cool thing. It's letting a lot of people not have to identify as a man or a woman. Whatever it means to them."<ref name="Gillis">{{Cite web |title=Rae Spoon: Powerful album reignites the pronoun debate |last=Gillis |first=Carla |work=NOW Magazine |date=26 January 2012 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://nowtoronto.com/music/rae-spoon/}}</ref> | ||
They co-wrote the book ''Gender Failure'' with [[Ivan E. Coyote]]. | They co-wrote the book ''Gender Failure'' with [[Ivan E. Coyote]]. | ||
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"I'm going by 'they' now. I'm gender retired. I'm no good at gender."<ref name="NMP" /> | "I'm going by 'they' now. I'm gender retired. I'm no good at gender."<ref name="NMP" /> | ||
"I was tired of often being expected to perform a male role because my pronoun was 'he.' After so many years fighting to be called 'he' and having people ask me when I was going to modify my body (physically [[transition]]), I realized that for me being trans is not about being read as a man or changing my body. I am happy with the body that I have. What I'm unhappy with is the way things are gendered by society in general. I don't feel like I want to carry out a male or a female gender role. Gender-neutral pronouns made sense to me personally and felt like the right decision."<ref name="tumblr 2012">{{Cite web |title=Instead Of An Interview With Xtra |first=Rae |last=Spoon |work=Rae Spoon Tumblr |date=3 January 2012 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://raespoon.tumblr.com/post/15242754277/instead-of-an-interview-with-xtra | "I was tired of often being expected to perform a male role because my pronoun was 'he.' After so many years fighting to be called 'he' and having people ask me when I was going to modify my body (physically [[transition]]), I realized that for me being trans is not about being read as a man or changing my body. I am happy with the body that I have. What I'm unhappy with is the way things are gendered by society in general. I don't feel like I want to carry out a male or a female gender role. Gender-neutral pronouns made sense to me personally and felt like the right decision."<ref name="tumblr 2012">{{Cite web |title=Instead Of An Interview With Xtra |first=Rae |last=Spoon |work=Rae Spoon Tumblr |date=3 January 2012 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://raespoon.tumblr.com/post/15242754277/instead-of-an-interview-with-xtra}}</ref> | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||