Amy Andre
At a Glance:
Amy Andre has been a Project Contributor since June 2011, has written 23 entries and currently lives in San Francisco, CA.
Bio
Featured from CNN to Cosmo for her bi/ LGBT activism, Amy Andre is the co-author of Bisexual Health: An Introduction, published by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. She holds a master’s in Sexuality Studies and, as a Point Foundation Scholar, earned an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Amy’s writing appears in countless places, such as AlterNet, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, ColorLines, Curve, and the Miami Herald. She has essays in the books LGBTQ America Today, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Waking up American: Coming of Age Bi-Culturally, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, and many more.
An in-demand speaker on issues such as bisexual health, Amy has educated thousands of people at over 100 universities and companies, including Harvard, Stanford Medical School, and Microsoft.
Amy Andre: Recently Filed
Self Care for Activists: Robyn Ochs Shows Us How
Filed by Amy Andre | May 07, 2012 5:00 PM |"It's not enough just to change our personal relationship to our activism... It's important that we also develop a culture around us into one in which we support and appreciate each another as activists both within and across issues." Read More
Professional Bisexual: One of the First Paid Staffers of a Bi Org [Interview]
Filed by Amy Andre | April 22, 2012 4:00 PM |In 2011, Ellyn Ruthstrom became the first - and so far, only - regular paid employee of the Bisexual Resource Center... As such, Ellyn joined a tiny number of people in the world who have been paid to work at bi organizations.Read More
A Scavenger Hunt with Queer People for Justice
Filed by Amy Andre | April 04, 2012 10:00 AM |Wouldn't you want to spend a day wearing a feather boa and hanging out with these folks?Read More
Morgan Goode: On Board with the Future of the Movement
Filed by Amy Andre | March 21, 2012 10:00 AM |"I had to be very vocal in order to be out, otherwise I would just be absorbed into whatever identity I was assigned based on my current partner's actual or perceived gender identity, or mine for that matter."Read More
The Bi-BQ: Grillin' and Chillin' with Bisexuals at Pride
Filed by Amy Andre | March 15, 2012 5:00 PM |"BBQs are the most bisexual kind of a picnic because nobody wants to choose between hot dogs and hamburgers - or not-dogs and gardenburgers - and they don't have to." -- Allegra HirschmanRead More
