"Juno Dawson on sex education: 'Nobody had thought to tell these young people that sex was pleasurable '". "Juno Dawson: 'Teenagers have seen things that would make milk curdle '".
What is Gender? How Does it Define Us? and Other Big Questions (2017).Spot the Difference - written for World Book Day (2016).Her novel, 'Meat Market' won the YA Book Prize 2020. In 2014 Dawson won the 'Queen of Teen' award, a biennial prize (discontinued in 2016) for young adult fiction writers. ĭawson has small acting roles in I May Destroy You and Holby City.
Dawson was supposed to write an episode for the second series of Class, but the show was cancelled. As well as writing a novel, she has also contributed audio plays for the Big Finish Torchwood range. The novel was released released in October 2018. In early 2018, it was announced that Dawson would be writing a novel called The Good Doctor, one of the first Doctor Who novels to feature the Thirteenth Doctor as played by Jodie Whittaker. Television rights to the book were acquired in 2018 by SunnyMarch, the production company founded by Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2017, Dawson published The Gender Games, her first book aimed at adults, discussing themes of gender as well as her own life experiences. Dawson sat on the judging panel for the 2016 BBC Young Writers' Award. She represents the LGBT charity Stonewall as a School Role Model. She was signed to write a column in Glamour magazine documenting her experience of transitioning. She began hormonal transition in early 2016. In 2015, Dawson came out as a transgender woman, having begun her journey of transitioning 18 months prior. Dawson responded by saying that the event highlighted how "there is still such small-mindedness and hatred left to contend with." In the same year, she was a recipient of the Queen of Teen award. In 2014, Dawson wrote This Book Is Gay, a non-fiction book aiming to be a "manual to all areas of life as an LGBT person." In Wasilla, Alaska, a petition was started to remove the book from a public library, with a number of residents criticising the library for stocking it, citing the profanity and sexually explicit text. Her books often feature LGBT people, and Dawson has advocated for other books to feature more prominent LGBT characters. She wrote a number of young adult fiction books including Hollow Pike and Say Her Name. While working as a teacher, she began writing books aimed at young adults and became successful enough to leave her job. After graduating from Bangor University, she worked as a primary school teacher and later became a PSHE co-ordinator. Dawson lived in Bingley and was educated at Bingley Grammar School. Juno Dawson was born James Dawson on 10 July 1981 at Bradford Royal Infirmary in West Yorkshire.