And a Few Years Later, I’m Still Meaningfully Alive By Yossra Hamouda A few years ago when I first wrote to you, I was young. I was experiencing, for the first time, the meaning of freedom and self-love. I wrote to you just three months after my own coming out. If you remember, I am…
Tag: Africa & the Middle East
Around the World: Iran and Bisexual Activism
Interview and translation by Aredvi S. Soudeh Rad, 36, and Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, 31, are Iranian feminist researchers and activists living in France and Sweden, respectively. They founded Dojensgara.org in March 2015. Dojensgara is the Farsi term for bisexual, and the website is the first and, so far, only resource about bisexuality in Farsi. Dojensgara.org not…
Around the World: Yossra, Egypt
It is hard to believe I have come this far in less than a year. The worst chains I ever endured were inside me, not outside. My real achievement is the change that has occurred inside me. I abhorred myself. I viewed myself as two-faced and as a liar. I thought that every relationship in…
Around the World: On the Fence in Zimbabwe
By Carol For this issue, we feature a short story written by Carol , a bi-identified woman living in Zimbabwe. She sat there, the fence pricking her back. She looked to either side. There were many like her, male and female, sitting on that fence. She wondered neutrally—without those certain feelings of uncertainty, undecision and…
Bi Women Around the World: Dana Peleg, Tel Aviv, Israel
Interview by Robyn Ochs Dana Peleg was born in 1969 and raised in Kiryat-Haim, a suburb of Haifa, Israel. She lives with her partner, Mimi Peleg and their seven-year-old son, Boaz Wilde Peleg in Tel Aviv, Israel. From 2004 until 2009 they lived in Santa Cruz, California, where their son was born in 2004, and…
Bis Around the World: Shiri Eisner, Israel
Interview by Robyn Ochs Robyn Ochs: Shiri, please tell us about yourself. Shiri Eisner: I am a 27-year-old female gender queer. I am a feminist, anarchist, vegan, polyamorous, bisexual/ pansexual and a sex radical. I do a lot of stuff in general, such as grassroots organizing, academics, journalist writing, and art. I started (and currently…
Bis Around the World: Yemisi Ilesanmi, (Abuja), Nigeria
Interview by Robyn Ochs In July 2009 I attended a three-day LGBT human rights conference in Copenhagen associated with the World Out Games. There were over a thousand human rights activists present, from many countries. In an attempt by the organizers to insert some “B” into the program, I was invited to moderate a plenary…