#beyond binaries

[jtwb768-babbles]

Unboxing Becoming: A Movement for the Misunderstood

What happens when you stop shrinking yourself to fit a box that was never built for you? What happens when you stop apologizing for being unclassifiable? What happens when you stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?”—and start asking, “What’s wrong with the rules?” That is where becoming begins. This is not a story about a platypus—not entirely. It is about what the platypus represents: all of us…

Unboxing Becoming: A Movement for the Misunderstood

[robynochs]

The Buzz: Life Beyond the Binary

So often LGBTQ+ folks are painted as anything but human - but I have seen more humanity, love, and affirmation within the LGBTQ+ community t

This thoughtful essay, by Hannah Sorila, reminds me that my work has an impact.

"During my second year of college, Robyn Ochs came to speak on Beyond the Binaries, asking questions about how we identify, what our lived experiences were, and where those overlap or hold contradiction. I walked away feeling more myself than ever before. I watched as the whole room – representing each other’s data anonymously – ebbed and flowed in waves across various identities on a continuum laid out across the floor, fundamentally deconstructing everything I was taught to understand about identity. I walked away with hope for new possibilities, and a deeper connection with the space I held for myself. Contradiction, paradox, and both/ands were all felt and understood in new ways – all dangerous concepts in a world built on binaries, hierarchy, and either/or thinking."

[robynochs]

"Straight" people might be more queer than they realize, according to a new study

Millennials and Gen Z-ers are all about shaking up the binary categories of sexual orientation that have flattened the human experience for far too long. Even many of those who identify as straight understand sexuality as continuous and fluid, at…

A research study finds people assigned to read an article about sexuality existing on a spectrum were 28% more likely to identify as non-exclusively heterosexual than those in the control group. 

My program Beyond Binaries has a similar effect.

The power of information and framing!

[robynochs]

‘Beyond Binaries’ presentation highlights complexity of sexual orientations, gender identities

Robyn Ochs, bisexual+ speaker, author and activist, discussed the fluidity of sexual orientations and gender identities at the “Beyond Binaries” presentation.

I did my "Beyond Binaries" program yesterday at Ohio University. Isabel Nissley, a first-year journalism student, interviewed me and did a nice write-up of the event

[robynochs]

I'm looking forward to speaking "in" Scotland on January 9th.

“Amazing News! We are honoured to have @robynochs​ running her interactive Beyond Binaries session, which looks at how we assign labels to our complicated experiences of identity.

Join us on the 9th of January!

Free event tickets: https://t.co/8pqMHoXOBj?amp=1

scottishbinet.org/gathering”

[drustvokvartir]

Ta konec tedna gostujemo v Pragi pri naših prijateljih_cah Queer & Trans Youth CZ / Transparent CZ​, s katerimi ustvarjamo Beyond Binaries​, feminističen projekt na preseku biseksualnosti, nebinarnosti in vseh ostalih "vmesnih" identitet. Konec maja Beyond Binaries prihaja v Ljubljano, zato se pripravite na pester aktivističen in kulturni program tudi na domačem terenu!

[schoolpoint]

"The New York City Department of Education has introduced new guidelines to help schools respect transgender students and meet whatever unique needs they might have. The guidelines recommend that schools respect trans students’ gender identities and make facilities and activities as inclusive as possible."