12 Facts About Julia Serano

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Julia Serano is known for her transfeminist books Whipping Girl, Excluded, and Outspoken.

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Julia Serano is a prolific public speaker who has given many talks at universities and conferences.

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Julia Serano's writing is frequently featured in queer, feminist, and popular culture magazines.

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Around then, Julia Serano began identifying as not only a crossdresser but transgender and bigender.

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Julia Serano earned her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from Columbia University.

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Julia Serano researched genetics and developmental and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Berkeley for 17 years.

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Julia Serano's 2020 book, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel, published by Switch Hitter, won the Publishing Triangle's 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was an Independent Publisher Book Awards 2021 silver medalist in LGBT+ Fiction.

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Julia Serano has spoken about transgender and trans women's issues at numerous universities, often at queer-, feminist-, psychology-, and philosophy-themed conferences.

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Julia Serano's writings have been used in teaching materials in gender studies courses across the United States.

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Julia Serano was a guitarist and vocalist for the band Bitesize from 1997 through the early 2000s and has recorded solo music.

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Julia Serano received a grant to curate "The Penis Issue: Trans and Intersex Women Speak Their Minds," a spoken-word event, as part of the 2007 National Queer Arts Festival.

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Julia Serano writes social justice articles on the website Medium about topics like transgender identity, LGBTQ+ visibility, and identity politics.