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Alec Butler (born 1959 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright, filmmaker, novella writer, poet and performer. Born Intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch lesbian before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently identifies as a transman and two-spirit. Alec was given the spirit name "Whitewolf" by a Two-Spirit Cree Elder in 2010. Alec recently finished his first novella "Rough Paradise" which was shortlisted for a novella writing contest sponsored by Quattro Books, Toronto.

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  • Alec Butler (born 1959 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright, filmmaker, novella writer, poet and performer. Born Intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch lesbian before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently identifies as a transman and two-spirit. Alec was given the spirit name "Whitewolf" by a Two-Spirit Cree Elder in 2010. Alec recently finished his first novella "Rough Paradise" which was shortlisted for a novella writing contest sponsored by Quattro Books, Toronto.
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  • Alec Butler (born 1959 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright, filmmaker, novella writer, poet and performer. Born Intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch lesbian before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently identifies as a transman and two-spirit. Alec was given the spirit name "Whitewolf" by a Two-Spirit Cree Elder in 2010. Alec was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English drama in 1990 for his play Black Friday? He has also worked on artistic projects with The 519 Church St. Community Centre as their first artist-in-residence. He was named one of Toronto's Vital people by the Toronto Community Foundation in 2006. In November 2011, Alec's collected films were inducted into the University of Toronto's Women and Trans Center's video library, and his most recent film "My Friend Brindley" was launched at their Trans-Film Screening Series. Alec recently finished his first novella "Rough Paradise" which was shortlisted for a novella writing contest sponsored by Quattro Books, Toronto. In August 2012 attended screenings of 6 of his films at the Entzaubert DIY Queer Film Fest in Berlin, Germany where he gave an artist's talk and facilitated a workshop called "Creating your own reality". In May 2013. four of Alec's films will be screened at TranScreen, the International Transgender Film Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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