User:Jokestress/Biography
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- The text below is proposed text I prepared for my biography in response to a number of dead link tags added on 26 February 2012.
- It is for discussion purposes and is not an official biography in article space.
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[edit]Andrea James | |
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| Born | January 16, 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, writer, activist |
| Website | andreajames.com |
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American producer, writer, director and LGBT rights activist.[1]
Life and career
[edit]James grew up in Indiana and attended Wabash College, where she majored in Latin and Greek.[2] She then attained a Master's degree in English from the University of Chicago. After graduating, she wrote ads at Chicago advertising agencies.[3]
In 2003, James co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with author and entertainer Calpernia Addams, to create content by and for transgender people.[4] James is the host of the instructional program Finding Your Female Voice.[5]
For a 2004 V-Day benefit performance, James produced and performed in the first all-transgender cast of The Vagina Monologues, debuting a new piece created by Eve Ensler for the event.[6][7] She also consulted on and appeared in Beautiful Daughters, a documentary film about the event.[8]
James was a script consultant for the 2005 film Transamerica and consulted with actress Felicity Huffman for her role in the film.[9][10][11] James appeared in the 2005 HBO documentary Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She. In 2007, James directed the short film "Casting Pearls."[12] She was a consulting producer and appeared in the 2008 Logo reality dating television series Transamerican Love Story.[13][14] In 2009 she directed the short film "Transproofed."[15]
Writing and activism
[edit]James writes on consumer rights, technology, pop culture, and LGBT rights. She is a contributor to Boing Boing,[16] QuackWatch, eMedicine,[17] and The Advocate.[18]
In 1996, James created Transsexual Road Map, a consumer website for transgender people.[19] One section of the site criticizes a transsexualism typology promoted by psychologist Ray Blanchard and others, including psychologist J. Michael Bailey in his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen.[20][21] Critics of James' tone and tactics accused her of personal harassment that went beyond the limits of civil discourse, and they said her efforts had a chilling effect on academic freedom.[22][23][24] James characterized Bailey's book as a "cure narrative" which harmed transgender children and said the case report which frames the book has never been independently confirmed.[25]
She also created HairFacts, a consumer website on hair removal,[26] and HairTell, a companion discussion forum.[27]
James founded the nonprofit GenderMedia Foundation in 2004.[28] In 2007, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of TransYouth Family Allies, a nonprofit that supports transgender youth and their families.[3] In 2008, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Outfest, where she was involved in the restoration of the documentary Queens at Heart.[29]
References
[edit]- ^ Lam, Steven (June 20, 2006). What's "gay" now: we are everywhere indeed. The Advocate
- ^ Wabash College (October 21, 2008). Andrea James to Give Talk at Wabash.
- ^ a b James, Gary (October 28, 2008). Alum Shares Earned Wisdom With the Wabash Community. Cite error: The named reference "”james2008”" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Addams, Calpernia and Andrea James (July 22, 2003). Transformations. The Advocate
- ^ Hopper, Douglas (March 5, 2006). Helping Transgender Women Find a New Voice. All Things Considered National Public Radio
- ^ "LesbianAlliance.com interviews DeepStealth's Andrea James".
- ^ Tennyson, Joyce (2005). Vagina Warriors. Bulfinch Press, ISBN 9780821261835
- ^ Teaching resources: Beautiful Daughters. Feminist Teacher Vol. 18 #2 (2008) p. 179-180
- ^ Nangeroni, Nancy and Gordene MacKenzie (2006). GenderTalk Episode #555
- ^ Keck, William (November 21, 2005). Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty. USA Today
- ^ Tucker, Duncan (2006). Transamerica: the shooting script. Newmarket Press, ISBN 9781557047328
- ^ Adelman, Kim (July 18, 2007). "Pariah" Leads The Pack of Outstanding Shorts at Outfest '07. Indiewire
- ^ Pozner, Jennifer L. (2010). Reality bites back: the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV. Seal Press, ISBN 9781580052658
- ^ Kearns, Michael (2008). Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Frontiers Vol. 26 # 20
- ^ Everleth, Mike (January 10, 2011). Echo Park Film Center: Transgender Short Films. Underground Film Journal
- ^ Jardin, Xeni (December 28, 2009). Welcome to the Boing Boing guestblog, Andrea James! Boing Boing
- ^ Bashour, Mounir and Andrea James (July 2, 2009). Laser Hair Removal eMedicine
- ^ James, Andrea (December 18, 2007). Don't Tick Off Trans. The Advocate
- ^ Garvin, Glenn (2003-03-15). "Breaking Boundaries". The Miami Herald.
- ^ James, Andrea (2006). A defining moment in our history: Examining disease models of gender identity. Gender Medicine, 3:56 ISSN 15508579 Full text via tsroadmap.com
- ^ Faderman L (2007). "Transsexuals Protest Academic Exploitation". Great events from history: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender events, 1848-2006. Salem Press. pp. 700–702. ISBN 978-1-58765-265-3.
- ^ Bailey JM, Triea K (2007). What many transgender activists don't want you to know: and why you should know it anyway. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Autumn;50(4):521-34.
- ^ Dreger, A. D. (2008). "The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (3): 366–421. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1. PMC 3170124. PMID 18431641.
- ^ Carey, Benedict (August 21, 2007). Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege. New York Times
- ^ James, Andrea (2008) Fair comment, foul play. National Women's Studies Association conference.
- ^ Painter, K (2006-03-26). "Who qualifies to zap hairs?". USA Today.
- ^ Grossman, AJ (2008-06-05). "Zapping teenage torment". The New York Times.
- ^ Ensler, Eve et. al (2004). V-Day LA: Until the violence stops
- ^ Kelly, Shannon (March 6, 2011). Highlighting the Outfest Legacy Project: Three Films. UCLA Film and Television Archive