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User:Avoryfaucette

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the Guild of Copy Editors.
Interests

Transgender | Queer | Genderqueer | LGBT movement | Feminism | Activism | Race | Disability | Deafhood | Law | Social Justice | Policy | Nonprofit Management | Copyediting | Grammar | Languages

Tools I Use
Useful Wiki Stuff

Deletion policy
Wikipedia:Requested articles
Wikipedia:Article development
Wikipedia:Your first article
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Wikipedia:Template messages

Things I'm Watching

Stuff will be here soon.

To-Do

Clean up and expand Legal aspects of transsexualism in the United States
Expand Trans woman and Trans man
Add a section on transmisogyny to Transphobia
Look for useful lists to curate
Clean up the non-Western stuff in Lavender linguistics and add something on trans language

Languages
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
fr-4Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.
de-3Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.
ase-2This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language.
tr-2Bu kullanıcı orta düzey Türkçe ile katkıda bulunabilir.
ru-1Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.
da-1Denne bruger har et grundlæggende kendskab til dansk.
hr-1Ovaj suradnik posjeduje osnovno znanje hrvatskog jezika.
it-1Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.
es-1Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
ga-1Gaeilge de chaighdeán bunúsach ag an úsáideoir seo.
Editing Philosophy
Because of real life, this user will be editing on and off.
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
theyThis user frequently uses singular they as it is a handy gender-neutral pronoun.
human-
kind
Regarding gender, neutrality is vernacular. Patriarchy is archaic.
Everyone has points of view with inherent cultural biases - recognition is the first step to achieving NPOV.
This user would like to remind you that Wikipedia is not censored.
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Bio

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.

Barnstars
The Special Barnstar
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 Editors May 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 Editors May 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 Editors May 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 Editors May 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
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I am a real human being
Avory Faucette headshot
Avory Faucette
A Note on Pronouns
zie This user prefers to be referred to using the gender-neutral pronouns zie and hir.

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.

This user identifies as transgender.
This user identifies as genderqueer.
This user identifies as queer.
This user identifies as polyamorous.
This user is a feminist.

This user believes in disability awareness.

HTML-4This user is an expert HTML user.
css-3This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.
PHP-2This user is an intermediate PHP programmer.
Perl-1This user is a beginning Perl programmer.
W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.
OSrcThis user contributes to Open Source projects.
This user contributes using an
iMac.
This user owns an iPhone.
This user's WordPress.com blog is known as Radically Queer.
RCHSThis user attends or attended Raleigh Charter High School.
UMBCThis user is a student or graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
IOWAThis user attends or attended
the University of Iowa.
JDThis user has a Juris Doctor degree.
This user is not a lawyer. They are not admitted to practice in any jurisdiction, and nothing that they write is legal advice.
This user is a professional writer or journalist.
This user is a professional editor.
This user is an educator.
This user supports the Occupy Movement, but not uncritically.
This user is an independent voter who doesn't like partisan politics.
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