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12 Facts About Staceyann Chin

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Staceyann Chin was born on December 25,1972 and is a spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBTQ rights political activist.

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Staceyann Chin's work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes.

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Staceyann Chin was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she shared her struggles growing up as a gay person in Jamaica.

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Staceyann Chin announced in 2011 that she was pregnant with her first child, giving birth to her daughter in 2012.

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Staceyann Chin has been candid about her pregnancy by means of in-vitro fertilization, and wrote about her experiences as a pregnant, single lesbian in a guest blog for the HuffPost.

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In 2009, Staceyann Chin published her autobiographical novel, The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir.

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In 2009, Staceyann Chin performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

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Staceyann Chin taught a seminar at the arts-oriented Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn.

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Staceyann Chin's "activist driven" work has garnered praise in various publications.

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Staceyann Chin's poetry is passionate and well-written, sure; but it's her ability to communicate that passion in performance that is unparalleled.

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Staceyann Chin has been featured by public-access television cable television programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as many local radio stations including, WHCR and WBAI.

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The Joseph Papp Public Theater has featured her on more than one occasion, and Staceyann Chin has toured internationally, with performances in London, Denmark, Germany, South Africa and New York's own Central Park Summer Stage.