Interview by Robyn Ochs Noelia Mellado Pozas leads the Bisexual Policy Group of FELGTB, Spain’s national LGBTI organization. RO: Noelia please tell us a bit about yourself. NMP: My name is Noelia Mellado Pozas. I was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and I’m 26 years old. I studied Hispanic Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands…
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Around the World: Christine Gangstad Johansen, Oslo, Norway
Interview by Robyn Ochs Christine Gandstad Johansen is a co-founder of Visible, a group for bisexual/pansexual people in Oslo, Norway operating under the umbrella of Fri, Norway’s national LGBTQ+ organization. I met Christine in June, when she arranged to have Fri bring me to Oslo to speak at Pride week events. Oslo has quite an impressive Pride, with…
Around the World: Anne Müller, Hamburg, Germany
By Anne Müller I grew up in the northern part of Germany in a large farm house far away from other children except my three much older siblings and was rather lonesome. I liked being with animals and with my books and was not prepared for puberty and its effects on me. From books and magazines…
Around the World: Valérie Baud – Paris, France
Interview by Robyn Ochs Valérie Baud is Secretary of Bi’Cause, the national association for the cause of bisexuality in France. I had the pleasure of meeting her at EuroBiCon in Amsterdam in the summer of 2016. R: Tell us about Bi’Cause. How do you find or build community? V: The bi community in France is nascent, embryonic. This activist,…
Around the World: An Interview with Jenny Kangasvuo, Uolo, Finland
Interview by Robyn Ochs Jenny and I had the pleasure of meeting in person many years ago at bisexual conferences in Britain and in the Netherlands, and she has a piece in Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, an anthology I co-edited with Sarah E. Rowley. *** Jenny, please tell us about yourself. My childhood was…
Bi Women Around the World Luigia Sasso, Verona, Italy
Interview by Robyn Ochs Luigia Sasso is the bisexual chairwoman of Lieviti, the only Bisexual, Pansexual and Queer association in Italy, so far. She was born in Verona, but grew up in a small country town where she spent her childhood. She attended high school in Verona, where she was introduced to big city life, and discovered “values”…
Around the World: Surya Monroe (Switzerland & the United Kingdom)
By Surya Monroe I am the daughter of mixed European and American parents. Growing up in England and Switzerland in the 1970s and ‘80s, I was pretty unaware of sexual diversity and sexual choice. But when I was just turning 15, I got a scholarship to a progressive international school in Switzerland. There I took…
Bi Women Around the World: Janika Saul, Estonia
Interview by Robyn Ochs Robyn Ochs: Janika, please tell us about yourself. Janika Saul: I am 25 years old and happy. I live in Estonia, a small Eastern European country. We Estonians would like to think our country is as developed as Western Europe, though in reality in some important ways it is not. I…
Bi Women Around the World: Polina Skibinskaya, A Tri-national Bisexual from Ukraine, US and Canada
Interview by Robyn Ochs Polina Skibinskaya: I was born in Odessa, Ukraine, back when it was part of the Soviet Union. Odessa had a spirit similar to New York: it has its own slang, a rich dark comedy culture, and a sort of romanticized history of mafia wars. A person from Odessa can usually be spotted among Russians…
Bi Women Around the World: Jacquelyn Applebee, London, UK
Interview by Robyn Ochs Robyn Ochs: Please tell us about yourself. Jacquelyn Applebee: I was born and raised in London, England. I’m currently a published writer of erotic fiction, although I work in an academic library too; sadly they only stock business books, so it’s not much use to me! I’m out at work as…