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'''Kortney Ryan Ziegler''' (born December 15, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker,<ref>{{cite web|last=Vallejos|first=Jorge Antonio|title=Portraits of Black Trans Men|url=http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/portraits_of_black_trans_men.html|work=[[ColorLines Magazine]]|publisher=Applied Research Center|accessdate=September 11, 2010|date=July 29, 2009|archive-date=August 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809063036/http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/portraits_of_black_trans_men.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> visual artist, blogger, writer,<ref>{{cite web|last=Moore|first=Lisa|title=thank you|url=http://www.redbonepress.com/books/doesyourmamaknow|work=[[Does Your Mamma Know?]]|publisher=RedBone Press|accessdate=September 11, 2010|date=September 15, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730113230/http://www.redbonepress.com/books/doesyourmamaknow/|archivedate=July 30, 2010}}</ref> and scholar based in [[Oakland, California]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sibery|first=Michelle|title=Framing race, sexuality|url=http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/New_Voices/d/Framing_race,_sexuality|work=[[The Chicago Reporter]]|publisher=Community Renewal Society|accessdate=September 11, 2010|date=September 15, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227162440/http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/New_Voices/d/Framing_race,_sexuality|archivedate=December 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Robie|first=Tehea|title=Kortney Ryan Ziegler's Crying Room|url=http://oaklandlocal.com/article/queer-oakland-kortney-ryan-ziegler%E2%80%99s-crying-room|work=[[Oakland Local]]|publisher=Oakland Local|accessdate=November 22, 2010|date=October 20, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144747/http://oaklandlocal.com/article/queer-oakland-kortney-ryan-ziegler%E2%80%99s-crying-room|archivedate=November 29, 2010}}</ref> His artistic and academic work focuses on [[queer]]/[[Transgender in the United States|trans issues]], body image, [[Racialization|racialized]] sexualities, gender, performance and black [[queer theory]].
'''Kortney Ryan Ziegler''' (born December 15, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker,<ref>{{cite web|last=Vallejos|first=Jorge Antonio|title=Portraits of Black Trans Men|url=http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/portraits_of_black_trans_men.html|work=[[ColorLines Magazine]]|publisher=Applied Research Center|accessdate=September 11, 2010|date=July 29, 2009|archive-date=August 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809063036/http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/portraits_of_black_trans_men.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> visual artist, blogger, writer,<ref>{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Lisa |date=September 15, 2007 |title=thank you |url=http://www.redbonepress.com/books/doesyourmamaknow |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730113230/http://www.redbonepress.com/books/doesyourmamaknow/ |archivedate=July 30, 2010 |accessdate=September 11, 2010 |work=Does Your Mamma Know? |publisher=RedBone Press}}</ref> and scholar based in [[Oakland, California]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sibery|first=Michelle|title=Framing race, sexuality|url=http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/New_Voices/d/Framing_race,_sexuality|work=[[The Chicago Reporter]]|publisher=Community Renewal Society|accessdate=September 11, 2010|date=September 15, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227162440/http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/New_Voices/d/Framing_race,_sexuality|archivedate=December 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Robie|first=Tehea|title=Kortney Ryan Ziegler's Crying Room|url=http://oaklandlocal.com/article/queer-oakland-kortney-ryan-ziegler%E2%80%99s-crying-room|work=[[Oakland Local]]|publisher=Oakland Local|accessdate=November 22, 2010|date=October 20, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144747/http://oaklandlocal.com/article/queer-oakland-kortney-ryan-ziegler%E2%80%99s-crying-room|archivedate=November 29, 2010}}</ref> His artistic and academic work focuses on [[queer]] or [[Transgender in the United States|trans issues]], [[body image]], [[Racialization|racialized]] sexualities, gender, and black [[queer theory]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
Ziegler was born in [[Compton, California]]. Raised in a family of single black women, his mother struggled with mental illness and drug abuse. His father was absent and he lived with three alcoholic uncles who inflicted physical and emotional abuse on the women in his family.<ref name="Chronicle 2014">{{Cite news|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Education-of-a-Scholar-Who/149571/|title=The Education of a Scholar Who Chose to Become a Black Man|date=2014-10-27|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref>
Ziegler was born in [[Compton, California]]. Raised in a family of single black women, his mother struggled with [[Mental disorder|mental illness]] and [[Substance abuse|drug abuse]]. According to Ziegler's personal essay, his father was absent, and he lived with three alcoholic uncles who inflicted physical and emotional abuse on the women in his family.<ref name="Chronicle 2014">{{Cite news |date=2014-10-27 |title=The Education of a Scholar Who Chose to Become a Black Man |url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Education-of-a-Scholar-Who/149571/ |url-access=registration |access-date=2016-11-16 |newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref>


He was the first in his family to attend post-secondary institution. He went on to pursue his master's degree at San Francisco State University and later his PhD at [[Northwestern University]]. During this time, he slowly began his transition, though when he began his doctoral program he checked female.<ref name="Chronicle 2014"/> In his third year he began to identify as [[genderqueer]] and started taking hormones. In 2011 he began to defend his dissertation on queer, black and Latino filmmakers. He was the first person to receive the PhD in [[African-American studies]] from [[Northwestern University]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}
He was the first in his family to attend a post-secondary institution. He went on to pursue his master's degree at San Francisco State University and later his PhD at [[Northwestern University]]. When he began his doctoral program, he indicated he was female, but during this time, he slowly began his transition.<ref name="Chronicle 2014"/> In his third year he began to identify as [[genderqueer]] and started taking hormones. In 2011 he began to defend his dissertation on queer, black, and Latino filmmakers. He was the first person to receive a PhD in [[Black studies|African-American studies]] from [[Northwestern University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zain |first=Haneen |title=Innovation at the intersection: An alum's trailblazing ventures in tech, film, and social change |url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/02/kortney-ryan-ziegler.html |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=UC Santa Cruz News |language=en}}</ref>


He currently resides in [[Oakland, California]].
He currently resides in [[Oakland, California]].{{As of when|date=June 2024}}


==Career==
==Career==


===Blogging===
=== ''blac (k) ademic'' ===
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From 2003 to 2006, Ziegler maintained a black queer feminist blog, ''blac (k) ademic''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blackademic.com/ |title="blac (k) ademic - critical essays by Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler". |access-date=2013-04-09 |archive-date=2013-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409202247/http://blackademic.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The blog is on the topic of gender and sexuality from a young black queer academic perspective.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ziegler |first=Kortney |title=Academic Blogging as Intercultural Exchange |url=http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume36_2/fromwhereisit.cfm?section=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710024438/http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume36_2/fromwhereisit.cfm?section=2 |archive-date=July 10, 2010 |accessdate=September 11, 2010 |work=From Where I Sit |publisher=Association of American Colleges and Universities}}</ref>


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Ziegler's radical stance positioned the experiences of women of color as the locus of his feminist analysis.<ref name="De Leon 2007">{{cite web|last=De Leon|first=Celina|title=The Segregated Blogosphere|url=http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/03/the_segregated_blogosphere.html|work=[[ColorLines Magazine]]|publisher=Applied Research Center|date=2007-03-01|accessdate=September 11, 2010|archive-date=2011-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234640/http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/03/the_segregated_blogosphere.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ziegler shut down the blog due to the many negative comments he was receiving.<ref name="De Leon 2007"/> ''blac (k) ademic'' went on to receive the award for Best Topical Blog in the first annual [[Black Weblog Awards]] in 2006. It relaunched in November 2012 and was nominated for a [[GLAAD Media Award]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.phillymag.com/g-philly/2013/01/17/gladd-announces-media-award-nominees/|title=GLADD Announces Media Award Nominees – Philadelphia Magazine|date=2013-01-17|work=Philadelphia Magazine|access-date=2018-01-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and a Transguy Community Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/kortney-ryan-ziegler-interview_n_2680260.html|title=Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Transgender Filmmaker, Talks Movies, Race And Advocacy|last=Morgan|first=Glennisha|date=February 27, 2013|work=Huffington Post|access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref>
==== ''blac (k) ademic'' ====
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From 2003 to 2006, Ziegler maintained a popular black queer feminist blog, ''blac (k) ademic''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blackademic.com/ |title="blac (k) ademic - critical essays by Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler". |access-date=2013-04-09 |archive-date=2013-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409202247/http://blackademic.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The blog tackled topics such as gender and sexuality from a young black queer academic perspective,<ref>{{cite web|last=Ziegler|first=Kortney|title=Academic Blogging as Intercultural Exchange|url=http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume36_2/fromwhereisit.cfm?section=2|work=[[From Where I Sit]]|publisher=Association of American Colleges and Universities|accessdate=September 11, 2010|archive-date=July 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710024438/http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume36_2/fromwhereisit.cfm?section=2|url-status=dead}}</ref> eventually becoming one of the top blogs in the feminist blogsphere.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/tp/blogs_feminist.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113185047/http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/tp/blogs_feminist.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 13, 2017|title=Top 10 Blogs on Feminism and Women's Rights|last=Head|first=Tom|date=July 29, 2009|work=[[Civil Liberties]]|publisher=about.com|accessdate=September 11, 2010}}</ref>


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=== ''STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen'' ===
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Ziegler endured much controversy due to his radical stance that positioned the experiences of women of color as the locus of his feminist analysis.<ref name="De Leon 2007">{{cite web|last=De Leon|first=Celina|title=The Segregated Blogosphere|url=http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/03/the_segregated_blogosphere.html|work=[[ColorLines Magazine]]|publisher=Applied Research Center|date=2007-03-01|accessdate=September 11, 2010|archive-date=2011-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234640/http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/03/the_segregated_blogosphere.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ziegler shut down the blog due to the many negative comments he was receiving.<ref name="De Leon 2007"/> ''Blac (k) ademic'' went on to receive the award for Best Topical Blog in the first annual Black Weblog Awards in 2006. It relaunched in November 2012 and was nominated for a [[GLAAD Media Award]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.phillymag.com/g-philly/2013/01/17/gladd-announces-media-award-nominees/|title=GLADD Announces Media Award Nominees – Philadelphia Magazine|date=2013-01-17|work=Philadelphia Magazine|access-date=2018-01-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and a Transguy Community Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/kortney-ryan-ziegler-interview_n_2680260.html|title=Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Transgender Filmmaker, Talks Movies, Race And Advocacy|last=Morgan|first=Glennisha|date=February 27, 2013|work=Huffington Post|access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref>
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Premiering in 2008, ''STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen'' was conceived during the years Ziegler was a doctoral student in the department of African-American studies at [[Northwestern University]]. The film explores the theme of [[Trans man|female-to-male transgender transition]] in the [[African Americans|African American]] community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2015/05/TransDocumentaries1.pdf|title=Feminist Visions Diversifying and Complicating Representations of Trans Lives: Five Documentaries about Gender Identity|last=Ryan|first=Joelle|date=Summer 2010|website=|publisher=Women Studies Librarian|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-date=September 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908073250/http://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2015/05/TransDocumentaries1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ziegler and his producer, [[Awilda Rodríguez Lora]], provided the initial financial investment. They employed a [[grassroots fundraising]] method, using [[social networking]] to secure funds to complete the project.

===Film===

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==== ''STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen'' ====
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Premiering in 2008, ''STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen'' was conceived during the years Ziegler was a doctoral student in the department of African-American studies at [[Northwestern University]]. The film explores the theme of female to male transgender transition in the African American community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2015/05/TransDocumentaries1.pdf|title=Feminist Visions Diversifying and Complicating Representations of Trans Lives: Five Documentaries about Gender Identity|last=Ryan|first=Joelle|date=Summer 2010|website=|publisher=Women Studies Librarian|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-date=September 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908073250/http://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2015/05/TransDocumentaries1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ziegler and his producer, Awilda Rodriguez Lora, provided the initial financial investment to get the project off the ground. They employed a [[grassroots fundraising]] method, using [[social networking]] to secure funds to complete the project. Upon release to the queer film festival circuit, the film became one of the most sought after and talked about films representing the [[trans man]]-of-color experience, showing to sold-out crowds in cities such as Los Angeles, Toronto, Seattle, Chicago, and Tel-Aviv. The film received an Isaac Julien Experimental Award from Queer Black Cinema International Music Festival and an Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary in the ReelOut Queer Film + Video Festival.


===Technology===
===Technology===
In 2013, Ziegler launched Trans*H4ck, an organizational hub for trans people collaborating on technical projects. It first began as a two hack-a-thon which was aimed to address specific issues in the transgender community.<ref name="TSQ 2014">{{Cite journal|date=2014-05-01|title=Interview with Kortney Ryan Ziegler of the Trans*H4CK Project|url=http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/1/1-2/280|journal=TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly|language=en|volume=1|issue=1–2|pages=280–284|doi=10.1215/23289252-2400253|issn=2328-9252|doi-access=free}}</ref> During the hack-a-thon developers, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, and community members came together to brainstorm new ideas and create technological advances digital tools to better the trans community.<ref name="TSQ 2014"/> This was used as digital activist movement to help spread the word of an underrepresented community and raise money through crowdfunding. Over the two day hack-a-thon partners got to know each other, and heard about the social injustices facing transgender and non gender-conforming people.
In 2013, Ziegler launched Trans*H4ck, an organizational hub intended for trans people to collaborate on technical projects. It first began as a two-day [[hackathon]].<ref name="TSQ 2014">{{Cite journal|date=2014-05-01|title=Interview with Kortney Ryan Ziegler of the Trans*H4CK Project|url=http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/1/1-2/280|journal=TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly|language=en|volume=1|issue=1–2|pages=280–284|doi=10.1215/23289252-2400253|issn=2328-9252|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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Along with Tiffany Mikell, he also founded BSMdotCo, an educational technology startup company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/inclusive-tech-entrepreneur-kortney-ryan-ziegler/Content?oid=4932891|title=Inclusive Tech Entrepreneur: Kortney Ryan Ziegler|last=Lovemonster|first=Kelly|website=East Bay Express|date=9 August 2016|access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref> Together they created Aerial Spaces. This is a video based forum which allows educators to reach a wider audience of learners.


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Along with Tiffany Mikell, he also founded BSMdotCo, an educational technology startup company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/inclusive-tech-entrepreneur-kortney-ryan-ziegler/Content?oid=4932891|title=Inclusive Tech Entrepreneur: Kortney Ryan Ziegler|last=Lovemonster|first=Kelly|website=East Bay Express|date=9 August 2016|access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref> They both created Aerial Spaces, a video-based forum.
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In 2017, Ziegler and Mikell cofounded Appolition.us in order to help incarcerated Black people return to their families by allowing users to round up purchases to the nearest dollar and donate the funds to bail funding efforts. The app was supported through crowdfunding after a tweet from Ziegler got attention during July 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newsone.com/3761762/bail-app-kortney-ziegler-appolition/|title=App Turns Small Change Into Bail Donations For Black People|date=2017-11-28|work=News One|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en-US}}</ref>


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In 2017, Ziegler and Mikell co-founded Appolition.us to try to help incarcerated Black people return to their families by allowing users to round up purchases to the nearest dollar and donate the funds to funding bail costs. The app was supported through crowdfunding after a tweet from Ziegler in July 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newsone.com/3761762/bail-app-kortney-ziegler-appolition/|title=App Turns Small Change Into Bail Donations For Black People|date=2017-11-28|work=News One|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Community outreach ===
In 2011 he became the co-owner of Halmoni,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.halmoni.net/about.html|title=About Us|website=Halmoni Vintage & Treasures {{!}} 1601 2nd Ave. OAKLAND|access-date=2016-11-16|archive-date=2016-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117064229/http://www.halmoni.net/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=This reference does not mention Ziegler|date=June 2019}} a vintage boutique that promotes healthy body positivity and self-love for women. In 2013 Ziegler also founded Who We Know, a group that focuses on creating products and developing initiatives to economically empower the transgender color community.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}


==Honors and awards==
==Honors and awards==
* 2006 Best Topical Blog, [[Black Weblog Awards]] - "blac (k) ademic"
* 2006 Best Topical Blog, [[Black Weblog Awards]] – ''blac (k) ademic''
* 2009 Best Documentary, Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival - ''[[STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen]]''
* 2009 Best Documentary, Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival – ''[[STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen]]''
* Trans 100 Honoree
* Trans 100 Honoree
* 2013 GLAAD Media Award Nomination for Outstanding Blog
* 2013 GLAAD Media Award Nomination for Outstanding Blog
* 2013 Empowerment Award, Black Transmen, Inc.
* 2013 Empowerment Award, Black Transmen, Inc.
* 2013 Outstanding Transgender Service, The Esteem Awards
* 2013 Outstanding Transgender Service, The Esteem Awards
* 2013 Top 40 under 40 LGBT Activist, ''The Advocate''
* 2013 Top [[40 Under 40]] LGBT Activist, ''The Advocate''
* 2013 Authentic Life Award, Transgender Law Center
* 2013 Authentic Life Award, Transgender Law Center
* 2017 Diablo magazine's 40 Under 40 award winner
* 2017 ''Diablo'' magazine's 40 Under 40 award winner


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*[https://modelviewculture.com/authors/kortney-ziegler Kortney Ziegler at] Model View Culture
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Latest revision as of 02:15, 20 October 2024

Kortney Ryan Ziegler
Born (1981-12-15) December 15, 1981 (age 43)
Compton, California, U.S.
Other namesShane B. Star
EducationNorthwestern University (PhD)
San Francisco State University (MA)
University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)[when?][1]
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • visual artist
  • writer
  • blogger
  • technologist
Websitekortneyrziegler.net

Kortney Ryan Ziegler (born December 15, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker,[2] visual artist, blogger, writer,[3] and scholar based in Oakland, California.[4][5] His artistic and academic work focuses on queer or trans issues, body image, racialized sexualities, gender, and black queer theory.

Biography

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Ziegler was born in Compton, California. Raised in a family of single black women, his mother struggled with mental illness and drug abuse. According to Ziegler's personal essay, his father was absent, and he lived with three alcoholic uncles who inflicted physical and emotional abuse on the women in his family.[6]

He was the first in his family to attend a post-secondary institution. He went on to pursue his master's degree at San Francisco State University and later his PhD at Northwestern University. When he began his doctoral program, he indicated he was female, but during this time, he slowly began his transition.[6] In his third year he began to identify as genderqueer and started taking hormones. In 2011 he began to defend his dissertation on queer, black, and Latino filmmakers. He was the first person to receive a PhD in African-American studies from Northwestern University.[7]

He currently resides in Oakland, California.[as of?]

Career

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blac (k) ademic

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From 2003 to 2006, Ziegler maintained a black queer feminist blog, blac (k) ademic.[8] The blog is on the topic of gender and sexuality from a young black queer academic perspective.[9]

Ziegler's radical stance positioned the experiences of women of color as the locus of his feminist analysis.[10] Ziegler shut down the blog due to the many negative comments he was receiving.[10] blac (k) ademic went on to receive the award for Best Topical Blog in the first annual Black Weblog Awards in 2006. It relaunched in November 2012 and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award[11] and a Transguy Community Award.[12]

STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen

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Premiering in 2008, STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen was conceived during the years Ziegler was a doctoral student in the department of African-American studies at Northwestern University. The film explores the theme of female-to-male transgender transition in the African American community.[13] Ziegler and his producer, Awilda Rodríguez Lora, provided the initial financial investment. They employed a grassroots fundraising method, using social networking to secure funds to complete the project.

Technology

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In 2013, Ziegler launched Trans*H4ck, an organizational hub intended for trans people to collaborate on technical projects. It first began as a two-day hackathon.[14]

Along with Tiffany Mikell, he also founded BSMdotCo, an educational technology startup company.[15] They both created Aerial Spaces, a video-based forum.

In 2017, Ziegler and Mikell co-founded Appolition.us to try to help incarcerated Black people return to their families by allowing users to round up purchases to the nearest dollar and donate the funds to funding bail costs. The app was supported through crowdfunding after a tweet from Ziegler in July 2017.[16]

Honors and awards

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  • 2006 Best Topical Blog, Black Weblog Awards – blac (k) ademic
  • 2009 Best Documentary, Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival – STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen
  • Trans 100 Honoree
  • 2013 GLAAD Media Award Nomination for Outstanding Blog
  • 2013 Empowerment Award, Black Transmen, Inc.
  • 2013 Outstanding Transgender Service, The Esteem Awards
  • 2013 Top 40 Under 40 LGBT Activist, The Advocate
  • 2013 Authentic Life Award, Transgender Law Center
  • 2017 Diablo magazine's 40 Under 40 award winner

References

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  1. ^ "C.V. | blac (K) ademicblac (K) ademic". Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Vallejos, Jorge Antonio (July 29, 2009). "Portraits of Black Trans Men". ColorLines Magazine. Applied Research Center. Archived from the original on August 9, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  3. ^ Moore, Lisa (September 15, 2007). "thank you". Does Your Mamma Know?. RedBone Press. Archived from the original on July 30, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  4. ^ Sibery, Michelle (September 15, 2007). "Framing race, sexuality". The Chicago Reporter. Community Renewal Society. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  5. ^ Robie, Tehea (October 20, 2010). "Kortney Ryan Ziegler's Crying Room". Oakland Local. Oakland Local. Archived from the original on November 29, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
  6. ^ a b "The Education of a Scholar Who Chose to Become a Black Man". The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 27, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  7. ^ Zain, Haneen. "Innovation at the intersection: An alum's trailblazing ventures in tech, film, and social change". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  8. ^ ""blac (k) ademic - critical essays by Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler"". Archived from the original on April 9, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  9. ^ Ziegler, Kortney. "Academic Blogging as Intercultural Exchange". From Where I Sit. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Archived from the original on July 10, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  10. ^ a b De Leon, Celina (March 1, 2007). "The Segregated Blogosphere". ColorLines Magazine. Applied Research Center. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  11. ^ "GLADD Announces Media Award Nominees – Philadelphia Magazine". Philadelphia Magazine. January 17, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  12. ^ Morgan, Glennisha (February 27, 2013). "Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Transgender Filmmaker, Talks Movies, Race And Advocacy". Huffington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  13. ^ Ryan, Joelle (Summer 2010). "Feminist Visions Diversifying and Complicating Representations of Trans Lives: Five Documentaries about Gender Identity" (PDF). Women Studies Librarian. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 8, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  14. ^ "Interview with Kortney Ryan Ziegler of the Trans*H4CK Project". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1 (1–2): 280–284. May 1, 2014. doi:10.1215/23289252-2400253. ISSN 2328-9252.
  15. ^ Lovemonster, Kelly (August 9, 2016). "Inclusive Tech Entrepreneur: Kortney Ryan Ziegler". East Bay Express. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  16. ^ "App Turns Small Change Into Bail Donations For Black People". News One. November 28, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
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