Charlie Craggs

Charlie Craggs is a British transgender activist and author from London.[5]

Charlie Craggs
NationalityBritish
EducationLondon College of Fashion[1]
OccupationAuthor
Known forTransgender activism[2][3][4]

She was number one on the 2016 "New Radicals" list compiled by Nesta and The Observer newspaper,[6] and was number 40 in The Independent newspaper's 2015 "Rainbow List" of the 101 most Influential LGBTI people in the UK.[7]

In 2017 Craggs published her first book, To My Trans Sisters,[8] a collection of letters by successful trans women.[2] In 2018 the book was a finalist in the 30th Lambda Literary Awards.[9]

Craggs created the campaign "Nail Transphobia" which provided free manicures to customers, allowing them to chat with a trans person about their experiences, as an attempt to reduce transphobia.[10] The campaign began as a university project and grew to become a pop-up salon that appeared at different events and locations.[11][10]

Craggs began a campaign in 2018 for inclusion of a transgender rainbow flag emoji in Unicode,[12] which was subsequently included in 2020.[13]

References
  1. Fashion, London College of (January 28, 2019). "LCF Alum Charlie Craggs publishes first book To My Trans Sisters". London College of Fashion.
  2. "Review of the year: the female groundbreakers of 2017". The Independent. December 25, 2017.
  3. "Trans myths debunked: 'They're not just handing out vaginas in the street!'". BBC Radio 5 Live.
  4. "How Charlie Craggs Is Fighting Transphobia One Manicure At A Time". The Fader.
  6. "Charlie Craggs: Nail Transphobia". Nesta.
  7. "Rainbow List 2015: 1 to 101". The Independent. November 15, 2015.
  8. To My Trans Sisters. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2017. ISBN 978-1785923432.
  9. "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary Foundation. March 6, 2018.
  10. "Nail Transphobia: 'I'm just trying to be everyone's trans friend'". the Guardian. 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  11. "How I'm Fighting Transphobia By Doing People's Nails". HuffPost UK. 2015-12-15. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  13. Curtis, Cara (January 30, 2020). "Unicode Consortium finally added a transgender flag emoji and more gender-inclusive designs". The Next Web.
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