Robyn Ochs
Speaker • Teacher • Writer • Activist
Speaking
Robyn offers everything from 90 presentations to half- and full-day workshops, or mini-conferences tailored to the needs of YOUR group. All programs include a facilitated discussion and most are adaptable to various audiences. People of all genders and sexual orientations are welcome to all…
Activism
As a well-established activist with decades of work under her belt, Robyn has many causes that are near and dear to her heart. Here find just a few that she is proud to be a part of. MassEquality Robyn served on the Board of…
Writing
Robyn is a distinguished writer on topics of sexual identity- specifically bisexuality. She has been the author, contributor, or editor of a wide variety articles and essays, two books–Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, and RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men–and a collection…
What are the boundaries & borders of every identity word?
“What are the boundaries and borders of every identity word? Who gets to use it? Who doesn’t? There’s a lot of identity border policing; I think it comes from a place of stress and discomfort because we’re trying to find comfort where it doesn’t…
If you are free, you are not predictable
“If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. To my mind, that is the keenly positive politicizing significance of bisexual affirmation…. to insist upon the equal validity of all the components of social/sexual complexity.” – June Jordan
Bi+ is an inclusive term
“Bi+ is an inclusive term we use to include all non-monosexual identities, so bisexual, queer, fluid, straightish, homoflexible, omnisexual, multisexual, all of them,” shares Robyn. “My adaptation to the ‘bi’ in ‘bisexual’ means I’m attracted to genders like my own, and genders different from…
