Laci Green

Laci Green

Laci Green at 2014 VidCon
Born (1989-10-18) October 18, 1989
Utah, United States
Residence Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Occupation YouTube personality, video blogger, sex ed teacher
Website lacigreen.tv

Laci Green (born October 18, 1989)[1] is an American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and 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] and when she was twelve, they 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] though occasionally attends the Unitarian Universalist church.[11]

Green identifies as bisexual.[12]

In 2011, Green graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in legal studies and education.[13][14] In February 2017, she announced her intention to pursue a doctorate degree in public health.[7]

Green now lives in Los Angeles.[15]

Activism

Green's videos were originally a hobby, but, as they grew more popular, she took more interest in sex education.[13] 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[16] and on behalf of Planned Parenthood.[13] Green is a former co-host of DNews, a YouTube channel with short science-based shows, launched by the Discovery News website.[17] 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 slut-shaming is wrong and how it is used to degrade a woman's sexuality.[18]

Green advances the sex-positive movement in her videos and lectures.[19] 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."[20]

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][21] Channel 4 and the BBC interviewed her about sexual harassment in the YouTube community.[4][22]

Green won a 2016 Streamy Award for Science or Education.[23]

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.[24] After a month-long break, she returned to her YouTube channel in August 2012.[25]

In May 2017 Green had a series of dialogs on Twitter, in her own videos, and in the videos of other YouTubers, with critics of identity politics, gender identity, and modern feminism. She said that some of the points made by these critics were "more valid than they’d previously seemed". Though she did not repudiate any of her past positions on these issues, "far-right media" responded with what Newsweek's Alexander Nazaryan called "celebration", "praise", and "glee".[26]

References

  1. ↑ Green, Laci. "When is your birthday/how old are you?". lacigreen.tumblr.com. Tumblr. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ Vagianos, Alanna (April 4, 2014). "Laci Green reminds us why we all need to be feminists". The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Lodge, Reni-Eddo (September 30, 2014). "Sam Pepper sexual harassment row: How YouTube teen fan girls found their voice". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "Second YouTube star accused of sexual assault by fans". Channel 4 News. Channel 4. October 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Spangler, Todd. "Channel hosted by sex vlogger Laci Green under 12-week deal with cabler". variety.com. Variety. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ Time staff (March 16, 2016). "The 30 most influential people on the internet". Time. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  7. 1 2 lacigreen (February 2, 2017), Leaving YouTube?!, retrieved March 25, 2017
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Green, Laci (April 8, 2013). Draw my life (Video). YouTube. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  9. ↑ Ryan, Erin Gloria (July 11, 2012), "Internet Social Justice Mob Goes Batshit on Activist, Has No Sense of Irony", Jezebel
  10. ↑ Green, Laci (July 8, 2010). Mormon Family, Atheist Me. YouTube. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Meet Laci". Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  12. ↑ Green, Laci (July 14, 2017). Laci Green LIVE: Red Pilling, Sex, and Constructive Dialogue (Video). The Rubin Report via YouTube. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  13. 1 2 3 Munger, Kel (February 6, 2014). "Master of sex". News & Review. Chico, California. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ Krandel, Kelsi (September 25, 2014). "11 of the most entertaining UC Berkeley alumni". The Daily Clog (student newspaper). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  15. ↑ Green, Laci (January 7, 2016). How to self care?! (Video). lacigreen via YouTube.
  16. ↑ Feeney, Nolan (February 7, 2014). "Living myths about virginity". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  17. ↑ The Deadline Team (May 23, 2013). "Discovery’s revision3 launches science-themed web channel: testtube". Deadline.com. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  18. ↑ McGraw, Phil (host); Green, Laci (guest) (January 18, 2013). "Girls who bash girls who dress sexy". Dr. Phil. CBS. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  19. ↑ Tyler, Centaine (February 9, 2014). Laci Green teaches sex ed to the masses on YouTube. The Press (student newspaper). Calgary, Alberta, Canada: SAIT Polytechnic. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  20. ↑ Ehlen, Sarah (April 11, 2013). "YouTube sensation Laci Green talks "relation-shit"". North by Northwestern (student newspaper). Evanston, Illinois: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  21. ↑ Vagianos, Alanna (September 22, 2014). "YouTube star Sam Pepper attempts to 'prank' women by grabbing their butts". The Huffington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  22. ↑ McCamley, Frankie (October 1, 2014). "YouTube star Sam Pepper faces sexual harassment claims". Newsbeat. BBC Radio 1.
  23. ↑ Lincoln, Ross A. (October 1, 2016). 2016 Streamy Awards Part 1: full winners list. Deadline.com. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
  24. ↑ Orsini, Lauren Rae (July 10, 2012). "Death threats force sex-positive blogger underground". The Daily Dot. Austin, Texas. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  25. ↑ Orsini, Lauren Rae (August 13, 2012). "Sex-positive vlogger Laci Green returns to YouTube". The Daily Dot. Austin, Texas. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  26. ↑ Nazaryan, Alexander (May 16, 2017). "Free Speech, Third Rail of Identity Politics: Sex-Positive Youtube Star Shunned by Fellow Social Justice Warriors". Newsweek. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
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