A Conversation With Robyn Ochs - Gender Identity & Diversity Issues

Please join us for a discussion of a wide range of gender identity and diversity issues with guest speaker ROBYN OCHS.

September 29, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Sponsored by
African and African-American Studies Program, MALS Program, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Audience
Public
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Amy Gallagher

The MALS program - cosponsored by the English Department; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Leslie Humanities Center; and African and African American Studies - will host the activist speaker and writer Robyn Ochs. With her expertise on gender, sexuality, and identity, she will speak to the MALS 277 class “Coloring Gender” and the Dartmouth Community.  Robyn Ochs has been at Dartmouth before, and on June 9, 2016, she was invited to the White House for an LGBT Pride Reception (https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/faces-of-lgbt-pride-2d212f52b276#.2qb7t9tei). 

Robyn Ochs describes herself as an educator, speaker, and award-winning activist, and the editor of the Bi Women Quarterly; the anthology, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals around the World; and the new anthology RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men. Her writings have been published in numerous bi, women’s studies, multicultural, and LGBT anthologies and she has taught university courses in gender and sexuality studies. An advocate for the rights of people of ALL orientations and genders to live safely, openly and with full access and opportunity, her work focuses on increasing awareness and understanding of complex identities, and mobilizing people to be powerful allies to one another within and across identities and social movements. She has taught courses on LGBT history & politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, & the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay|straight, masculine|feminine, black|white &/or male | female.

(Photo: Kelly Jo Smart)

Location
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Sponsored by
African and African-American Studies Program, MALS Program, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Audience
Public
More information
Amy Gallagher