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Lex Croucher | |
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 Croucher in 2016 | |
| Born | Alexandra Louise Croucher 8 March 1992 Wandsworth, London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2010–present |
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Last updated: 16 October 2021 | |
Lex Croucher (born 8 March 1992) is an English author and YouTuber. Croucher began making Youtube videos in 2010 and became a published author in June 2019. Their novel Gwen & Art are not in Love won the YA Book Prize.
Early life and education
[edit]Croucher was born in South London and grew up in Surrey. They graduated from the University of Southampton with a degree in English.
Career
[edit]YouTube
[edit]Having done some BlogTV shows and discovered AmazingPhil through MySpace,[1] Croucher created their YouTube channel under the username tyrannosauruslexxx on 2 June 2008.[2] They were also inspired by the likes of fiveawesomegirls, charlieissocoollike, and John Green. In 2011, Croucher won Google's NextUp grant, which allowed them to buy a "proper camera", laptop, and editing equipment and go to VidCon.[1] By 2013, Croucher had over 60 thousand subscribers, and their content shifted from autobiographical vlogs towards advice and opinion pieces.[3][4]
They also collaborated with the likes of Hannah Witton and Louise Pentland. As of April 2023, Croucher's main channel had over 120 thousand subscribers.[5] Croucher has been on an indefinite hiatus from YouTube since 2021.
In addition, Croucher created a (now defunct) second channel lexcanroar on 14 September 2008, featuring mostly vlogs. This second channel had over 135,000 views and over 8,600 subscribers as of April 2023.[6] From 2011 to 2014, Croucher was a member of the collaboration channel Sarcaschicks.[7]
At Summer in the City and VidCon, Croucher co-founded and chaired the Women on YouTube panel, discussing the experiences of female contact creators in an online space. The 2015 panel included Cherry Wallis, Theadora Lee, Dodie Clark, Laci Green, Lucy Moon and Jana Damanhouri.[8]
Due to their sex education-related videos, in 2014, Croucher was invited to appear on the BBC Two programme Newsnight to discuss the new NICE guidelines around the morning-after pill.[1]
In 2017 and 2018, Croucher hosted an advice podcast with fellow YouTuber Rosianna Halse Rojas titled Make Out With Him, with a focus on dating and relationships.[9][10]
Writing
[edit]After graduating from university, Croucher contributed to HuffPost UK and had a WordPress-based blog.[4]
As announced in 2018, Croucher began their professional writing career with You're Crushing It: Positivity for Living Your Real Life, a non-fiction self-helf guide published by Bloomsbury in 2019.[11][12] Croucher described it as written for their teenage self.[13]
In September 2019, it was announced Zaffre (a Bonnier Books imprint) would publish Croucher's debut fiction novel Reputation, a Regency era-set romantic comedy,[14] in July 2021.
Zaffre aquired the rights to two further Regency novels from Croucher in February 2022: Infamous, published 21 July 2022,[15] and Trouble, published the a year later.[16] The former had a US release via St Martin's Press Infamous in March 2023.[17] Croucher was nominated for the TikTok Book Award for Author of the Year.
Also in 2023, Croucher released their first young adult (YA) novel Gwen & Art Are Not in Love via Bloomsbury UK in the UK and Commonwealth and Wednesday Books (a St Martin's Press imprint) in the US; both publishers had acquired the rights back in 2021.[18] The Arthurian-inspired novel around the arranged betrothal between a medieval lesbian princess and a gay duke. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love won the 2024 YA Book Prize[19] and a 2023 Books Are In My Bag Award in the Young Adult Fiction category. Itwas also shortlisted for a Nero Book Award, a TikTok Book Award and Barnes & Noble Award, and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award.
Croucher reunited with Bloomsbury UK for the release of their second YA medieval romance Not For the Faint of Heart, a Robin Hood reimagining.
Chloe Seager, from Madeleine Milburn, is Croucher's current literacy agent.[20]
Philanthropy and activism
[edit]As part of their YouTube career, Croucher traveled to Syria with the charity Save the Children.[21]
In 2015, Croucher started an online petition calling for a drastic improvement of the living conditions of the pengiuns at Sea Life London Aquarium. This petition was included in a The Independent article entitled 5 worthwhile campaigns to support on Change[22] The petition on Change.org garnered over 100 thousand signatures.
In April 2020 Croucher presented a video for Greenpeace's channel and website entitled Do hashtags and petitions actually work?[23] Croucher discusses the effectiveness of online activism (via petitions, social media and hashtags) and the term slacktivist.
In 2020, Croucher added their name to an open letter from The Second Shelf, a feminist bookstore, showing their support for the transgender and non-binary community, along with over 200 other authors.[24]
Personal life
[edit]Croucher lives in London.[25] In 2021, Croucher announced they quit their day job to become a full-time author.
In 2020, Croucher came out as non-binary.[26][27] Croucher further discussed their gender identity in a Youtube video entitled I don't know what my gender is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.[28]
Bibliography
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- You're Crushing It: Positivity for living your REAL life (2019, 1408892472)
Adult
[edit]- Reputation (2021, 1250832837)
- Infamous (2022, 1804180017
- Trouble (2023)
Young adult
[edit]- Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (2023, 9781526651792)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Tostevin, Daniel (29 May 2016). "Lex Croucher: Social Justice Worrier". TenEighty Magazine. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/@LexCroucher/about
- ^ Lewis, Tim (7 April 2023). "YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ a b Lanning, Carly (29 May 2015). "How WCW Lex Croucher came to voice my internal monologue". Daily Dot. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ "Lex Croucher". YouTube.
- ^ "lexcanroar". YouTube. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "sarcaschicks". YouTube. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ Pearce, Tilly Jeanette (16 August 2015). "Women on YouTube Panel at Summer in the City 2015". TenEighty Magazine. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Skubich, Daria (10 April 2017). "Lex and Rosianna Release Relationship Advice Podcast". TenEighty Magazine. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Quinn Rose (27 March 2018). "Six YouTuber Podcasts You Need to Check Out". TenEighty Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "You're Crushing It". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "10 Things We Learnt From Lex Croucher's You're Crushing It!". United by Pop. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Fox, Benji T (3 December 2018). "Lex Croucher To Release First Book". TenEighty Magazine. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Hackett, Tamsin (23 September 2020). "Zaffre lands 'feminist take on Regency romance' from Lex Croucher". The Bookseller. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Murphy, Lily (2022-02-23). "Zaffre scoops two new 'Regency romps' by Lex Croucher". Bonnier Books. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- ^ Casey (8 April 2024). "Bi4Bi Romance Thrives in This New Queer Regency-Era Rom-Com". Autostraddle. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Wood, Heloise (23 February 2022). "Zaffre snaps up two more Regency romps from Croucher". The Bookseller. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Comerford, Ruth (9 August 2021). "Bloomsbury bags Croucher's queer medieval YA debut". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art announced as winner of the YA Book Prize 2024". The Bookseller. 22 August 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Lex Croucher". Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
- ^ Croucher, Lex (17 September 2013). "Saving Syria's Children". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ Rogers Lowry, Brie (19 January 2015). "5 worthwhile campaigns to support on Change". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Abelvik-Lawson, Helle (9 April 2020). "Does online activism really work?". Greenpeace UK. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Bollinger, Alex. "Celebrities & authors are picking sides in J.K. Rowling's war on trans people". LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "Bio". Lex Croucher. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Eyre, Charlotte (17 April 2023). "Lex Croucher on their Arthurian-set children's debut, love and happy endings". The Bookseller. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Croucher, Lex [@lexcanroar] (15 December 2020). "hi. so. I'm non-binary. I had no plans to ~announce this~ as it feels personal & nbd to anybody else, but I'm doing it because the people who believe your gender has to correspond with your sex assigned at birth are VERY loud right now. I'm fine with any pronouns! that's all" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 22 March 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ I don't know what my gender is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Lex Croucher. 28 March 2021. Archived from the original on 31 March 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023 – via YouTube.