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Here are some additional sources we have found on Ivan Coyote:

"Ivan E. Coyote." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2012. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=ubcolumbia&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1000177660&it=r&asid=53e7a3958bb592ec196fbd6760d99594. Accessed 7 Mar. 2017.

National Post Online, http://arts.nationalpost.com/ (October 20, 2010), Brad Frenette, "VIWF 2010: Q&A with Ivan E. Coyote."

Herizons Online, http://www.herizons.ca/ (September 15, 2007), Joy Parks, "Straying from the Gender Pack: An Interview with Ivan E. Coyote.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, July 19, 2007, "Writers from Vancouver, Victoria, Moose Jaw Win ReLit Awards."

Curve, April, 2003, Rachel Pepper, "Ivan E. Coyote," p. 42.

--Tdeng (talk) 22:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ivan's pronouns[edit]

The source given for Ivan's pronouns, http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/They_is_me-11333.aspx is broken. The article can now be found at http://www.dailyxtra.com/vancouver/they-is-me-4408 but at no point does it explicitly say that Ivan's pronouns are they/them.

This quote from 2010 suggests that Ivan's pronouns are actually she/her. http://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.com/2010/08/30/quote-ivan-e-coyote-on-pronouns/ But I'm not sure whether or not it counts as a reliable source.

My solution is to be bold and remove the section stating that Ivan's pronouns are they/them, so I'm going to do that. But if anyone has a reliable source from Ivan explicitly stating a pronoun preference, I encourage you to edit it in!

I won't change any of the pronouns used for Ivan in the article itself, since they/them is the go-to pronoun when you're not sure what someone's pronoun preference is.

--Cassian (talk) 15:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More recent sources such as this article from August 2016 indicate that Coyote definitely uses they/them pronouns now: ""Often it will be 'What pronoun do you prefer?'" explains Coyote. "I have the pronoun I use, it's not the pronoun I prefer. I prefer chicken to duck, I prefer a window seat. But I can eat duck if I'm hungry and I can sit in the aisle seat or the middle seat if I have to, but I use the pronoun they. The choice is yours, not mine. You can choose to respect me or you can choose not to respect me. That's the pronoun that suits me the best." Funcrunch (talk) 22:41, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]