I’m excited and delighted to announce a new book publication, just out this month. I have an essay in Visible: A Femmethology, an anthology of writing about, you guessed it, femmes! My friend Sand Chang and I teamed up to co-author the piece, titled “There and Back Again”. It was a “sequel” of sorts to […]

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Congrats to my friend Mike Szymanski, a journalist who recently started writing for the Examiner.com, covering the bisexual beat! Check out his page here. And giant thank you’s to Mike for listing me as one of the “The sweet 16 most significant women in the bisexual movement“! Quite an honor!

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My friend Robin Mills is at it again, with a very cool sex education mission. Robin and I got our master’s degrees in sexuality studies together, and now she is focusing her efforts on reaching out to young people of color, to teach them about safer sex and sexual health. Here she is being interviewed […]

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I’m pretty excited about a new anthology coming out this spring! It’s called Femmethology, and it’s all about femmes. And my friend Sand and I co-authored an essay that’s in it! Femmethology is actually going to be a two-volume set. Our piece is in the first volume, fyi.
Anyway, as part of the campaign to spread […]

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(I didn’t get a chance to comment on the election in last week’s blog post — I had the post pre-loaded and ready to go, because of some school work that I knew would be capturing my attention last Sunday. But, here goes…)
We won! (This is me, coming out as a Democrat.) We won! And […]

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Thanks to my friend Krisana for telling me about this brilliant, inspirational piece by Sasha Dichter on nonprofit fundraising: http://sashadichter.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/manifesto-in-defense-of-raising-money_sasha1.pdf.
Here’s an excerpt:
This is not about competition for resources, this is about increasing the size of the pie. We’ve seen an unprecedented growth in global wealth in the last two decades: there are currently 95,000 […]

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Last week I spoke at an event for potential MBA students at my school. I was asked to tell the audience my favorite school memory thus far. Little did I know at the time that the best thing that could ever happen to me at UC Berkeley was yet to occur.
This week, I got to […]

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My favorite sex-artist duo, Twincest, were at it again this week, this time with a live performance at the Femina Potens art gallery on Thursday night. The performance involved them drawing and then drinking shots of each others’ blood, bookended by some very sweet kissing and touching. And the cherry on top was that the […]

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Wingspan is the LGBT center of southern Arizona, and it is helmed by Executive Director Jason Cianciotto, a great guy who used to work at the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. We met when I worked on Bisexual Health, the book published by the Task Force’s Policy Institute.
Wingspan is currently celebrating its 20th […]

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I want to let you know about an exciting event coming up in Boston in just a couple of weeks. As you probably know, September 23rd is National Celebrate Bisexuality Day. (You don’t have to be bisexual to celebrate, by the way.) And, in honor of the occasion, the Bisexual Resource Center, which is a […]

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