Avory Faucette is a queer feminist activist, writer, and public speaker. Zie graduated from the University of Iowa with a JD in 2009, focusing on international human rights and gender/sexuality issues in the law. Hir current work focuses on queer identity, policy, and marginalized identities under the queer umbrella. As a genderqueer person, zie comments frequently on non-binary identity, transgender and genderqueer issues, and media coverage of these populations.
Avory is Director of Operations at the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C. Hir work has been featured at Ms. Magazine Online, RH Reality Check, Feministe, and Feministing and zie writes regularly at Radically Queer, Gender Across Borders, and Girl w/ Pen. Zie is published in the Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice and hir work will appear in two upcoming anthologies. Zie is also a graduate of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices program and has won numerous social justice awards.
Avory has given workshops and presentations on topics ranging from sexual orientation in international human rights law to polyamory and new media to incorporating ambiguous identities in queer movements.
Contributions
Articles below represent a significant substantive contribution. I've been doing a lot of copyediting, too, but the article topics are such a random collection that I'm more proud of the quantity there than any particular article.
For courage and self-disclosure on your User Page. Best wishes Greenmaven (talk) 15:51, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy EditorsMay 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive, 79 articles with a combined total of 106,012 words, Avory is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Thank you for this magnificent contribution. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number articles edited – 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Avory for copy editing 79 articles during the Guild of Copy EditorsMay 2012 drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of words edited – 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Avory for copy editing articles to a total of 106,012 words during the Guild of Copy EditorsMay 2012 drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – Equal 4th Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Avory for copy editing 5 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy EditorsMay 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I am genderqueer and use the gender-neutral pronouns "zie" and "hir." If you need to refer to me in the third person, please use these pronouns. For example "Avory just edited an article, and I'm not sure what zie was thinking. Hir edits seem a little weird. Zie should ask hirself if zie's following Wikipedia standards." Questions? Ask at my talk page.
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