Thank you BIWOC Founder and Director, Gwendolyn Fougy Henry, EdM, MSLIS
In honor of Bisexual Women of Color - BIWOC’s 2 year anniversary, we would like to uplift and show appreciation for our founder and Director, Gwendolyn Fougy Henry. Gwendolyn created BIWOC on June 5th, 2013 from a deep rooted dedication she has towards mental health, decreasing emotional and social isolation, and celebration of intersectional identities - bisexual, racial, cultural and gender. You can learn more about why she created our community organization here: Why I set up Bi Women of Color. Somethings that were not included in this article is what she actually DOES on a daily basis for BIWOC.
1. Check emails and respond to personal messages from bi women of color from all over the USA and overseas.
2. Setting boundaries with trolls, stalkers, and sexual harassers who fetishize her for being a black bisexual woman and assume her body belongs to them. She has written about this here: My Personal Experiences with Biphobia: Prejudice, Discrimination, Emotional, Verbal and Physical Assaults towards my Bisexual Identity.
3. Created and facilitate the BIWOC CoffeeChat and Bi Women Partnered with Men support groups and oversea all BIWOC services: http://biwoc.tumblr.com/BIWOCServices
4. Manage all social media accounts and develop content for our Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook and Pinterest accounts. What that actually means is that SHE is the human that writes the posts, finds articles to schedule in our queue and keeps track of analytics (amount of followers and members and what posts gets the most attention).
5. She checks up on BIWOC members through monthly check ins in the online support group and if needed on an individual basis connects with them via telephone or email.
6. She collaborates with other Bisexual organizations and creates local programs and organize community events such as summer picnics, movie outings, lectures, partnered and contributed content towards the campaign Bisexual Health Awareness Month and co-sponsored a BiPride party with MadFemmePride, and writes pieces for Bi Women Support Network,
7. Most importantly she has shared her personal life stories with us through her beautiful, sharp, raw, and inciteful writing. They can be found here
In addition to the volunteer work she does for our community, she is a mother of two children, a spouse, a professional in the library and archives field, and a great vegan baker and cook. She also runs another community organization Boston Vegan Women of Color and is a Board Member with the Bisexual Resource Center. We are so honored to have Gwendolyn as our leader, role model and if you are lucky enough to know her - most of all friend.
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