This weekend I attended Reaching Out, the annual conference for LGBT MBA students and professionals. It was a ton of fun, and I got to meet lots of amazing people (hi, Cliff! hi, Rebecca!). I attended a workshop about the “pink dollar,” which refers to LGBT buying power. This was a fascinating workshop, but I […]

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I just got great news! My article, “The Study of Sex,” which was originally printed in ColorLines magazine, is being reprinted in Best Sex Writing 2008, a collection of sexuality essays edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel! How cool is that? In this article, I bring attention to sexuality studies programs and the emphasis they do […]

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Here’s a cool-sounding event coming up in January:
“You’re invited! The Sex::Tech Conference: Focus on Youth will take place January 22-23, 2008 at SFSU’s Institute for Next Generation Internet in San Francisco.
This is the inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference focusing on Youth and Technology! We are bringing together public health professionals, youth activists, educators and tech wizards […]

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Congrats are in order to the incomparable Kami Chisholm, a film-making academic who just completed her doctoral dissertation and received her PhD! Dr. Chisholm is the co-director of FtF: Female to Femme, producer of Godspeed, and owner and operator of Altcinema Productions and Distribution, the company that distributes my short film, On My Skin. In […]

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I’m going back school, to get an MBA at UC Berkeley’s amazing Haas School of Business! Classes start next week, and I’m very excited because I’m going to be studying nonprofit management. I think it’s vitally important that people who lead nonprofits have a business education, and I want to be such a leader. So… […]

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It’s official: I’m going back to school! Starting this Fall, I’ll be pursuing an MBA, with a focus on nonprofit management. I am very excited about this new endeavor…
Any fellow MBA students (or grads) out there? Email me, and let me know what the experience is like for you!
Also, in other news, my lovely fiancée, […]

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It’s been a little whirlwind around here at the AmyAndre.com office! I presented my film, On My Skin, at the Pacific Sociological Association conference in Oakland and then spent time in Portland on a business trip. Happily back at home now, I have been catching up on a million tasks, as well as quality time […]

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My good friend, the incomparable Logan Gutierrez-Mock, is creating something amazing, yet again. Check it out:
Call for submissions MIXED FRUIT
Mixed Fruit: Writings from Multi-racial Queer Communities
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
How do mixed queers experience “passing” in regards to our racial/ethnic backgrounds, our sexualities and our genders? How do the experiences of our multi-racial families effect our genders […]

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This conference is in need of workshops on bi topics! If you’re interested in presenting a workshop, read on…
The National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students (NUJLS) is excited to announce that our website is now up and running! You can now register for the upcoming NUJLS Conference at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on […]

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Here’s news about a fabulous LGBT conference coming up next month, and they are looking for workshops on bisexual topics! If you’re bi and you have something to say about it, submit a workshop proposal. Last year, they had two workshops on bisexuality — let’s make sure they have even more to offer this time […]

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