Shon Faye

Shon Faye (born 27 March 1988) is an English writer, presenter, editor, journalist, artist and comedian, known for her commentary on LGBT+, women's, and mental health issues. She hosts the podcast "Call Me Mother" and is the author of "The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice" (2021). She is an editor-at-large at Dazed and has contributed features and comment journalism to "The Guardian", "The Independent", "VICE", "n+1", "Attitude", Verso and others.
Early life and education.
Faye is from Bristol, where she is now based. She studied Law.
Career.
The focus of Faye's editing and writing has been sexuality, feminism and mental health. She has written and appeared in two short films and her debut, 'Catechism', was exhibited at the Tate Britain 'Queer British Art' exhibition in 2017. Shon presented an online video series called "Shon This Way" for Novara Media in 2017, which dealt with queer politics and history. In a 2017 historical review for "The Guardian", political columnist Owen Jones cited Faye, along with Paris Lees and Munroe Bergdorf, as emerging "brilliant trans voices". Her art has been exhibited in the show "Am I Making Sense" at the Hoxton Arches.
Faye has written campaigning for trans women to have access to rape and domestic violence services. In 2018 she presented at Amnesty International's Women Making History event, where she gave a speech calling to "re-centre" underprivileged trans women. 
She hosts "Call Me Mother", a podcast that "rails against the patronising image that reaching your 60s and 70s involves sitting under a blanket and knitting, by talking to older LGBTQ trailblazers," according to "The Guardian". A review of the podcast in "GQ" includes, "This isn’t just a podcast for queer people, anybody can listen and enjoy the stories being shared and learn something about queer life." Erin Patterson writes for British "Vogue" that the podcast "highlights to me that I have a history as a queer person, I have ancestry."