Jackson Bird (author)
Jackson Bird is an American vlogger, speaker, LGBTQ advocate, and writer. He is the author of the 2020 memoir Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir). Early childhood and education Bird grew up in Texas in the 1990s. Bird attended Southwestern University for two years before transferring to and ultimately graduating from New York University. Career Harry Potter fandom While in college, Bird began volunteering for the Harry Potter Alliance, a nonprofit that mobilizes fans of the Harry Potter series to engage in activism and philanthropy. This ultimately led to a paid job as communications director with the organization, a job he held for five years. When Bird came out as transgender at age 25, he said the Harry Potter fan community supported him, having learned from the books "about being yourself, loving those who are different from you and sticking up for the underdog." YouTube creator In 2010, Bird launched a YouTube channel. One recurring feature of the channel is a series of videos called "Will it waffle?" in which Bird puts various foods into a waffle iron to see what will happen. In 2015, Bird made a video in which he came out