#bisexual poets

Andrea Jenkins Bi Identified Trans Poet, Oral Historian + Activist:  Keynote Speaker at the 2015 BECAUSE Conference

“I am proud of my intersecting identities as a bisexual transgender woman of color. I recognize that I live at the margins of mainstream society, even within loosely formed LGBT communities.” ~ Ms. Andre Jenkins from “The Importance of Being Earnest: Why Truth Matters”August 2015

Andrea Jenkins, Board Chair at Minneapolis Minnesota’s Intermedia Arts is an artist-activist, and award-winning poet and writer. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bush Foundation, Intermedia Arts, and the Playwrights Center; has won writing and performance grants and scholarships from the Givens Foundation, Intermedia Arts, The Loft, the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Pillsbury House Theater.

Ms. Jenkins a Bi-identified Trans Woman of Color (BiWoc + BiToC) who was a keynoter at the Midwestern USA’s 2015 BECAUSE Conference.  She is the co-curator of Queer Voices at Intermedia Arts, the longest-running series of its kind in the nation, and currently works collecting oral histories from hundreds of people in the Upper Midwest transgender community as an Oral Historian in the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.