Julia Vera

About Julia Vera

Who is it?: Actress, Casting Director, Producer
Residence: Oakland, California
Education: Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from Columbia University
Employer: UC Berkeley
Known for: Trans and bi activism, writing, spoken word performance, biology
Notable work: Whipping Girl, Excluded, Out
Website: www.juliaserano.com

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Julia Vera was born, is Actress, Casting Director, Producer. Julia Vera is an actress and casting director, known for The Ridiculous 6 (2015), Agent X (2015) and American Gods (2017).
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Biography/Timeline

1970

On her blog, SwitchHitter.net, Julia Serano said she first consciously recognized in herself a Desire to be female during the late 1970s when she was 11 years old. A few years later, she began crossdressing. At first, she crossdressed secretively, but eventually she started identifying herself openly as a "male crossdresser." Serano attended her first support group for crossdressers in 1994 while living in Kansas.

1998

Soon afterward, Serano moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she met her wife, Dani, in 1998. Around this time, Serano began identifying as not only a crossdresser but also as transgender and bigender. In 2001, she began medically transitioning and identifying as a trans woman.

2006

Serano is a slam poet, and has given spoken-word performances at universities as well as at events such as the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco Pride Dyke March and Trans March stages, Ladyfest, outCRY!, Femme 2006 and in The Vagina Monologues. She was a Guitarist and vocalist for the band Bitesize from 1997 through the early 2000s, and has also recorded solo music.

2007

Serano organizes and hosts GenderEnders, a performance series that features the work of transgender, intersex, and genderqueer artists and allies. It has produced 20 shows. She 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.

2013

Serano is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Her second book, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, was published on September 10, 2013 by Seal Press. Her third book, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism, she published herself under Switch Hitter Press, which she founded along with Switch Hitter Records. Outspoken is a 2017 Lambda Literary Award finalist.

2019

Serano has spoken about transgender and trans women’s issues at numerous universities, often at queer-, feminist-, psychology-, and philosophy-themed conferences. Her writings have also been used in teaching materials in gender studies courses across the United States.