Laci Green

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Laci Green
Laci Green and Lindsey Doe (cropped to Laci Green).jpg
Laci Green at 2014 VidCon
Born (1989-10-18) October 18, 1989 (age 34)
Utah, United States
Residence Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Occupation YouTube personality, video-blogger, sex educator
Website lacigreen.tv

Laci Green (born October 18, 1989)[1] is an American YouTube video-blogger, public sex educator, and feminist activist.[2][3] She has hosted online sex education content on behalf of Planned Parenthood and Discovery News.[4]

Green hosts Braless, the first MTV YouTube channel, as part of a 12-week deal with MTV. The first episode aired November 4, 2014.[5] In 2016, Time named her one of the 30 most influential people on the Internet.[6] In 2017, she celebrated her tenth anniversary on Youtube.[7]

Early life and education

Green was born in Utah.[8] Her mother is a Mormon from a small American town, and her father, from a Muslim family, is from Iran.[9] When she was two years old, her family moved to Portland, Oregon.[8] When she was twelve years old, her family moved to California for her father's job.[8] As she grew older she began to question the Mormon faith because of its strict gender roles and expectations of her as a woman. Growing up, Green was interested in theater and was supported by her mother who owns a theater company. Soon after leaving the church, she fell into a state of deep depression and struggled with self-harm and suicidal thoughts.[8] She began to work with a therapist who helped her through her depression.[8] She is now an atheist.[10]

Green has said that the closest identifier for her sexual orientation is pansexual.[11]

In 2011, Green graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in legal studies and education,[12][13] and now lives in Los Angeles.[14]

In February 2017, Green announced her intention to go back to school to pursue a doctorate degree in public health.[7]

Activism

Green's videos were originally a hobby, but, as they grew more popular, she took more interest in sex education.[12] As of October 2014, her YouTube channel had more than 1,000,000 subscribers.[4] As a sex educator, she has given lectures at several universities[15] and on behalf of Planned Parenthood.[12] Green is a former co-host of DNews, a YouTube channel with short science-based shows, launched by the Discovery News website.[16] On January 18, 2013, Green appeared on Dr. Phil in an episode titled "Girls Who Bash Girls Who Dress Sexy". She spoke about how she believes that slut-shaming is wrong and how it is used to degrade a woman's sexuality.[17]

Green advances the sex-positive movement in her videos and lectures.[18] She has said that she wants to "get people to talk about sex in a way that isn't shameful, awkward, or weird. People are uneducated and this creates so many stigmas that don't need to be there."[19]

After fellow YouTuber Sam Pepper posted a video of himself grabbing women's bottoms, Green wrote an open letter, co-signed by several other YouTube bloggers, asking Pepper to "stop violating women".[3][20] Channel 4 and the BBC interviewed her about sexual harassment in the YouTube community.[4][21]

Green won a 2016 Streamy Award for Science or Education.[22]

Death threats

In 2012, Green received death threats via the Internet after she used the pejorative term "tranny" in a video; she apologized and took down the video, stating that the offensive comment had been made years earlier when she had been very uneducated.[23] After a month-long break, she returned to her YouTube channel in August 2012.[24]

References

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External links

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