Robyn Ochs
Speaker • Teacher • Writer • Activist
Category: News & Updates
March 2021 Engagements
Here’s where I’m speaking this March for #BiHealthMonth. If you or your organization is interested in virtually hosting me for a talk or webinar, reach out! Robyn Ochs’ March Engagements3/5 – University of Illinois; Springfield, IL3/9 – Wellesley College; Wellesley, MA3/15 – Ohio University;… Continue Reading “March 2021 Engagements”
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… Continue Reading “What are the boundaries & borders of every identity word?”
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… Continue Reading “Bi+ is an inclusive term”
We Are Our Beautiful Complex Selves
“The untidiness of actual lived human experience is stressful for some people, so they want to reduce it and make it more simple than it is. They want there to be one proper word, one proper definition, and one proper understanding… But we are… Continue Reading “We Are Our Beautiful Complex Selves”
On Questioning & Coming OUt
“There is so much pressure to ‘know,’ and I would like to see more people give themselves permission to live with the question [of their orientation] and not feel pressured to come to a decision until they are ready.” Robyn Ochs
Youth Sexual Orientation – 2019 Statistics
The 2019 data on sexual orientation from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey is out and the bisexual percentage just keeps on increasing!
I call myself bisexual because…
“I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted romantically and/or sexually to people of more than one gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the… Continue Reading “I call myself bisexual because…”
Labels Should Not Be Boxes
“Labels should not be boxes into which we feel we must squeeze ourselves, but rather tools with which to communicate and begin conversations.” Robyn Ochs
Robyn Quoted in Bitch Media Article
“I’ve identified as bi for 44 years this month, and one of the ongoing, continuous frustrations has been the disconnect between what I meant by the word ‘bisexual,’ and what other people think I mean.” Robyn Ochs, Bitch Media
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