# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shon-faye
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:09.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shon-faye"
name: "Shon Faye"
slug: "shon-faye"
description: "Shon Faye is an English writer, editor, journalist, and presenter, known for her commentary on LGBTQ+, women's, and mental health issues. She hosts the podcast Call Me Mother and is the author of the 2021 book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed and has contributed features and comment journalism to The Guardian, The Independent, VICE, n+1, Attitude, Vogue, Verso and others."
tagline: "British writer and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shon_Faye_Penguin_Studio_2021.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1988-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.26012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/shonfaye"
    handle:    "shonfaye"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/shon.faye/"
    handle:    "shon.faye"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/shonfaye90210"
    handle:    "shonfaye90210"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%DB%8C"
    title: "شون فی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Shon Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shon_Faye"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54358348"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump