Robyn Ochs
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Robyn Ochs | |
|---|---|
 Robyn Ochs |
|
| Date of birth: | 1958 |
| Place of birth: | Queens NY USA |
| Movement: | LGBT Rights/Bisexual Rights |
| Major organizations: | Boston Bisexual Women's Network, Bisexual Resource Center, BiNet USA, MassEquality |
| Notable prizes: | Susan J. Hyde Activism Award (2009); Havard Gay & Caucus's Lifetime Achievement Award for advocacy on the Harvard University Campus (2009); Reinaldo dos Santos Memorial Award for Bisexual Activism (1997). |
| Footnotes: | editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World |
Robyn Ochs (1958-) is an American LGBT rights activist who helped found the Boston Bisexual Network in 1983, and the Bisexual Resource Center in 1985[1].
She is the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide and the anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World[1]. Ochs is on the staff of Harvard University and has taught courses at Tufts' Experimental College[2]. She is a professional speaker and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are identity and coalition building. In 2004 and in 2007, she keynoted the Midwest Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Campus Conference, the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender student conference in the United States.
Ochs has appeared on a number of television talk shows, including Donahue, Rolanda, Maury Povich, Women Aloud, Real Personal, Hour Magazine and The Shirley Show, to discuss issues relating to bisexuality. She has also been in Seventeen and Newsweek.
In 2009 at the Creating Change Conference the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force awarded Ochs the Susan J. Hyde Activism Award for Longevity in the Movement. As she presented the award Creating Change Director Sue Hyde told Ochs: “We hear your clear voice, we see your staunch advocacy and we respond to your loving insistence that our movement includes all of us.”[3]
Ochs teaches courses on topics including LGBT history & politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white and/or male/female.[4] Her writings have been published in numerous bisexual, women's studies, multicultural and LGBT anthologies[5].
On 17 May 2004, the first day it was legal for same sex couples to marry anywhere in the United States, Ochs and her long-time partner Peg Preble were among the first same-sex couples to get legally married (A Carefully Considered Rush to the Altar). Ironically, in an example of exactly the type of bisexual erasure she has spent much of her life fighting against, Ochs was publicly misidentified in the press as a lesbian.
Ochs is the niece of late folk singer Phil Ochs.
Contents |
[edit] See also
[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Books
[edit] Anthologies
- Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan (Firestein, ed.)
- Bi Any Other Name: Bisexuals Speak Out (Kaahumanu & Hutchins, ed.)
- Closer to Home: Bisexuality & Feminism (Weise, ed.)
- Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Blumenfeld, ed.)
- Bisexuality: The Identity and Politics of an Invisible Minority (Firestein, ed.)
- Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology (Kesselman, McNair, & Schniedewind, eds.)
- Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Zimmerman, ed.)
- Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (ed. Adams, et al.)
[edit] References
- ^ Theres more to humanity than just gay and straight March 28, 2008 Gay People's Chronicle
- ^ Tuft's Experimental College
- ^ Robyn Ochs receives Susan J. Hyde Activism Award
- ^ Ochs, Robyn, Robyn Ochs Teaching, http://www.robynochs.com/teaching/teaching.html, retrieved 2008-02-25
- ^ Ochs, Robyn, About Robyn Ochs, http://www.robynochs.com/speaking/speaking.html, retrieved 2008-02-25
[edit] External links
- Robyn Ochs' website
- Robyn Ochs' MySpace page
- Robyn Ochs Famous GLTB People
- Fighting Prejudice with Education by Sasha Hnatkovich The Pulse September 2005
- Unstoppable and Always Learning:Robyn Ochs by Jon Pressick bisexual.com Apr 23, 2007
- Robyn Ochs: Activist/Pioneer: Local leader to keynote second North American conference on bisexuality, by Ethan Jacobs in Bay Windows, 7/24/03
- Bisexuality and the Space Between Binary Categories, by John Townsend in Lavender Magazine, June 2008
|
||||||||||||||||||||
